the beach

We went to the beach this weekend and had a WONDERFUL time. It was like summer - no autumn here! It was sunny and warm, but the thing that was different from summer-time was there was nobody at the beach except for us! If that had been a Saturday in July....

There was no wind and the scenery was georgous! We could see Mt. Rainer across the water. Alex enjoyed throwing rocks and sticks into the water and even got his feet wet.
Alex enjoyed balancing on a log

Alex was full of fun there and I was lucky enough to catch this precious moment above

But, the best part according to Alex was "driving the car" on the way back up from the beach. It's just a short ride and we didn't think it would be that big of a deal, and it wasn't. But, the next day when he was getting strapped to his car seat - OH MY GOSH! He wanted to drive so bad! I guess that's the down side of letting him do this kind of thing every once and a while. While we can tell that it's a safe place, he can't figure out why he can't do it all the time.

"Look Mama - I don't even need to look where I'm going!"