Easter SUNday

It was a fun Easter Sunday. Makela was in a terrific mood all day long. She loved her Easter basket and had fun hunting down the candy-filled eggs that the Easter Bunny hid for her throughout the living room. And at Gram's suggestion, we ventured out to the beach this afternoon after quiet time. Daddy had to return to work around noon, but the three of us girls had a grand time at La Jolla Shores -- we had to wait FOREVER for the cars to move in the parking lot, but then ended up with a PRIME parking spot.

We had fun building another huge sand castle (several times), complete with surrounding moat. We played in the warm sunshine and in the water -- it actually wasn't THAT cold after you got used to it. As usual, Makela would have walked to Hawaii if we'd let her. And we played some "football," although it mostly consisted of Makela throwing or kicking the ball away from herself and chasing after it, calling "I'll get it! I'll get it!"

Makela also said something very funny relatively early on in our beach adventure. We were working on our first version of the sand castle, and she was happily splashing in the moat and playing with her watering can. Suddenly she looked at me, her eyes big as saucers, and said, "Mommy? Maybe someday we can have some ocean next to our house. AND some sand!" Gram was right there next to us, and she looked at me and grinned, then said, "Makela has great ideas." ;-)