sandstorm

sammy freakin' loves her some sand (and dirt, actually)...i'm telling you - stella tasted it once and spit it out and then never really tried it again. her little sister, on the other hand, can NOT get enough of it! she just eats it and eats it and rolls in it, and creates a sand storm around her by flicking it up and around! (see pic #1 above). then I wipe her mouth and nose and you see she's quite pleased with the chaos she's created around her (see pic #2 above).. then she decided that she should just roll around in the sand, to make sure that she has gotten it in EVERY possible nick & cranny of her little wee body (see pic #3 above).

and then we leave the beach and have a monster bath - and continue to find sand for days to come (including in her diaper, cuz apparently she really did eat a LOT of sand and it had to make it's way out eventually!). we woke up that night to hear making a coughing sound not unlike the noise when our cat has a hairball stuck in her throat, and then she proceeded to let some of it out (nasty!) and daddy got to sleep right next to it (since we were all together in bed while camping out at aunt kim and uncle karl's!)... word.