The Early Bird

Goes to the Beach??

I'm fairly certain that is not how that old expression goes, but that is how it went in our world this morning, as Matilda decided to wake up at 6:15 (5:15 Minnesota time) and was NOT going back to sleep. And it wasn't the 'oh happy baby that just slept 11 hours' baby. No, it was the kind of baby that needed another hour, but refused to go back to sleep.

And so we went to the beach.

It seemed to do the trick. Well that and a 2.5 hour morning nap which led to a very fun time at the pool and a baby ready for the adventures of an afternoon walk.

We discovered flowers with Daddy.....

Learned how fun it is to get piggy-back rides especially when you get to scam sunglasses off of someone's head....

Practiced our crawling skills.....
(*Side note...notice Tillie's ridiculously cute skirt...made by my dear friend Summer...)

Our smiling skills......

Our standing skills.....

And our 'in general being cute' skills....

Nate and I were also schooled by this very very old german security guard. The long story short is that we went to the wrong entrance, and had already taken Matilda out of her car seat. It was literally a 3 block car ride (but we had all of our stuff) and Matilda was NOT wanting to go back in her car seat. And so we set her on my lap. The guard, after coochie cooing how cute Matilda was says: "You do know that it is unsafe for baby to be in front seat, yes?"....in a very thick german accent.

Yes. Yes we know. Chalk it up to probably not the first, and certainly not the last, poor parenting choices I am sure we will make.