Sammy Takes Brooklyn...Again

Yesterday afternoon I took Sam to Coney Island for a quick trip to the beach, followed by dinner with Daddy and some of our friends at the original Nathan's and a Brooklyn Cyclones baseball game followed by fireworks. She did pretty well, although we left the ballpark in the 8th and watched the fireworks in the car in the parking lot because she was bushed. It was an hour past her bedtime!

I can't remember a moment so joyous for me as when we first went down to the edge of ocean and the waves washed up on the beach over our feet. Her eyes got really wide and she started laughing. She LOVED it, and she kept saying "again! again!" I wish we'd had time for her to actually be in her bathing suit getting dirty in the sand. I'm definitely going to have to carve out an afternoon in these remaining weeks to do that.

Stomping around on the sand. So happy (sarcasm) that I had the pink shoes--I had some woman say "is that a girl? I thought so because of the pink shoes but she's dressed all in blue." Seriously, lady? She's wearing a Mets t-shirt and jeans. I'm soooooooo freaking sorry my clothing choices for my daughter don't match your idea of gender-appropriate.


On the edge of the ocean. I wanted to get more pictures but it's hard to stop a toddler from running full on into the ocean (which she wanted to do) and snap shots.

Sam treks through the desert in desperate search of water...hee hee. A nice shot of her without anyone else around. The beach really wasn't very crowded, especially on the side further from the boardwalk.

Sam sits on Daddy's lap to watch baseball while Helen and another friend look on. Sam is really into baseball these days; she's always begging to "play ball" or "play catch" and she knows that when Daddy isn't around he's "playing baseball" (whether that's attending a Mets game or playing softball, she doesn't know the difference yet.

Toddler on a Sugar High: Sam's first experience with cotton candy! She loved it, of course, how can you hate cotton candy?