Ethan’s 1st Time at the Beach

The classes are held in a hotel that is just a few hundred feet from the beach and Adriatic Sea.  After being here for 3 days we finally made it to the beach.  Ethan didn’t want to play in the sand and didn’t really seem to care about the water.Ethan wasn’t in the water long before he noticed this boat and wanted to get in it.  He enjoyed playing on it much more than being in the water.Ethan being the captain of the boat.

Once we took Ethan over to the showers to get the sand off, he was in hog heaven.  He enjoyed playing in the shower more than anything else.

The interesting thing was that when I went to get Ethan from childcare the next day, Ethan was sitting in his stroller without his clothes.  The girl who had been watching him said that she took him and another boy to the beach, and they ran to the water and got wet.  She handed me his shorts which were wet and had sand all over them.

Gary and I thought that maybe he just wasn’t interested that first time.  So, we took him again during the free time that afternoon.  It was the same thing as the day before.  He didn’t have any desire to play in the sand or water.  He just wanted to get in the boat and play.  I wish that I could have seen Ethan go toward the water earlier in the day because he just didn’t seem to care about it either of these two times that we took him.  Course, we are both fine with this since neither of us are beach people.  We would MUCH rather be in the mountains.  And, we would rather be at a pool than the beach/ocean.