I’m so loving that it’s staying lighter later.  It’s especially nice because our weather has been so bipolar lately!  One minute we have sunshine, the next it’s raining!  You never know when you can go outside and have fun!  On this day, it suddenly got nice later, so we ran outside to play with some bubbles.

And when I’m brain dead…ripped denim and a tee are what I grab.

It’s hit or miss on her actually blowing the bubbles 😉 And…then she got it! LOVE THAT SWEET FACE! So, funny story.  Our neighbor was outside throwing a ball for his dog.  He kept making noises at Maya, and she kept making noises back at him.  They went back and forth, and back and forth.  I got a little nervous that they were waking other kids up that don’t have such late bed times… ;{ On me…

I don’t even know what was going on here hahaha.  Maybe our neighbor made a better sound than she did 😉

 I love dressing one way on top and then another way on the bottom.  For some reason, I think it just works perfectly.  On top, I feel like a preppy PTA mom, and on the bottom, not so much.  🙂 I can’t even handle how cute she is!!!!My mom gave Maya this flower the other night, and I’ve been dying to take her pictures with it in this dress.  They match perfectly 🙂Collecting more “beach eggs” for her collections.Hahahaha.On me…

I couldn’t remember where I was supposed to stand 😉I guess she didn’t want a kiss?? 😉

 We are getting to that time when a LOT of our posts will be down on the beach.  We are super lucky to live so close to a gorgeous beach, and I loooove that Maya just runs, and runs, and runs!

I’m a liiiiiittle pissed that I messed up the focus on these first few, but whatever.  That’s the downside to the beach.  There are always people watching and wondering what the heck I’m doing with the tripod, and then I usually end up kicking whatever marker I had for my spot or it gets buried in the sand!  First world problems for sure 😉

Thankfully the images are pretty small, so you might not even be able to tell.  I can though, and it peeves me off!! On me…

 Funny…I took these almost a month ago, but kind of forgot about them.  Oops!Sometimes she does these really quick repeated kisses.  Like woodpecker kisses haha.  And, I LOVE that she just runs and jumps into my arms! Loooooove this shot.  The clouds…the wind.  There’s just something about shots from behind for me.  I love the story that they tell.

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I edited the boy out of the shot above, but here he is.  Not looking, because…I want to protect him I guess 😉 But THEN his grandfather walked up too, and in the ENTIRE beach.  Stands right behind us?  Like not even random about it-totally on purpose got in the shot.  Kind of threw me off, because I was waiting… Oh well.  Oh, and it’s not like I don’t expect people to get in my shot.  We ARE on the beach.  But this particular beach is usually pretty empty, and we were the only four people there!!!

That awkward moment when you actually did your hair and wore decent clothes because your neighbor had a party for their 3 year old, and you say…yeah, I’m totally taking pics of myself while Maya is inside going potty hahaha. DYING!!  😉 Thumbs up!!  This is her new thing.  We did a throw (which did NOT get captured properly, but they cheered and Maya gave them the thumbs up haha) I can’t even handle her sweetness!!Then, our neighbors asked her to dance.  I mean…duh.  Easiest thing to ask Maya!MY FAVORITE!On me…

 Yes, I am almost a week behind the actual times… 😉

After the morning Easter festivities, we put on some comfy shoes and headed down to a rocky beach to look for beach eggs. 🙂 An EGG!! 🙂 These are now in a pottery bowl on our dining room table.  Instant art! 🙂  Ok, there might be someone that finds this offensive/reports me for taking beach rocks.  Oh, well.At first, when she started walking on this log, I was nervous.  I yelled for her to be careful.  Then I watched.  She balanced along it like a champ!And then she kept doing it over and over!And then, she started running along the LOG!  I was both freaking out that she would fall in all those rocks, and totally proud of her balance!!Btw…this is what she wore earlier for Easter.  I picked the dress, and she picked the jacket.  We both decided on the boots 🙂On me…

I don’t even remember what was going on here.  Whatever it was…not pretty 😉

 It’s been rainy off an on lately, which is more normal for this time of year in Seattle.  It was kind of nice to put on a cozy sweater and boots again for a change!  We were out running errands, and by the time we came back home the rain had stopped.  SO…we headed off to this little park by our house for a bit.

I also realized that I rarely take pictures with my bags.  Mainly, because I don’t carry them around when we are off adventuring/playing.  BUT…I scored this amazing bag on eBay recently for $30 with free shipping and I’m so in love with it!Basically, I need a ginormous cavernous pit that I can stuff everything under the sun into to avoid Armageddon when we are out and about 🙂 And…she’s off! 🙂 On me…