Last hurrah for summertime!

Here's a rundown of our trip to Ocean City and Rehoboth Beach last weekend to round out the summer...It was just the three of us and we had a blast with our little fish. Even when the waves were rough and technically dangerous, Kate enjoyed hanging with Daddy and getting dunked a few times!

Kate's specialty in the "beach kitchen" is Ducky Soup!

She also LOVED drawing in the sand, so we were trying to show her the letters to her name so she would try to trace them...she was more interested in drawing long wiggly lines across the beach instead ...

Her first ferris wheel. No fear of the height whatsoever, despite Mommy's terror that she was so intent on sitting right next to the opening to our little seats!

A hungry little shark in the morning...

Such focus building sand creations on the beach. It was very fun to watch her play and build by herself a lot of the time we were down there. If you can see her little chin cocked out to one side in this photo below, I've noticed lately that when Kate's concentrating on something, like coloring, or painting, and here on the beach building, she moves her chin and jaw back and forth really fast while she's doing it, it's a funny little tick I guess, but it's very cute.

We made a stop at Rehoboth while we were down there, because Funland is just so darn...fun!

Kate and Jesse took a "spin" on the mildly crazy car roller coaster since Kate was finally tall enough, but he'd probably think better of it next time. It was pretty rough. This is a pic before the ride started. Afterwards, Kate's face was pretty blank, and Jesse had a stomachache!

Back in O.C. we took another bike ride on the boardwalk like we did last year. We debated her own bike with training wheels, but maybe next year we'll be ready for that...

A stop for some shenanigans on the beach playground to get her moving a bit...

Kate's newest love on any playground is now the rock climbing wall. There was one in O.C. at a big park playground and she LOVED it, and was decent after a few attempts. Here, she tries one during a stop at Bethany Beach, and then when they returned to the O.C. park the next day, she was going up all by herself! It was pretty cool to watch her try to figure out her next move and get better at problem-solving, instead of saying "I can't do it" and falling back into our hands like when she started trying it....

And finally, on our last night in Ocean City, we promised Kate we'd go back to the "fair" and hit the Jolly Roger amusement park rides for one last shabang, and she loved it. Such focus during each ride, but then she'd run off super excited about it.

And I'm sorry this one is blurry, but this one actually did more than go round and round, and Kate was enjoying the ups and downs of the balloons on this ride (it must have made her belly flip each time or something) and I tried to catch her actually smiling while she was on it...