The Atlantic, THE ATLANTIC!!!

Mike and Aki Bear are the ones closest to the center of the frame.

I am in love with the Atlantic Ocean. It has charmed me with it's warmth, blue-green translucency, shells and swells and little crabs. It is tops in my book and this is coming from a California Girl.

We took a trip on Father's Day weekend to Wilmington which is about 3 hours away from us. It was like pulling teeth to plan it but once we got there the misery of planning it got washed away in the foamy shore. We went to Wrightsville Beach and it was lovely. I had been there before with two girlfriends but Mike and Stanley had never been. Mike bodysurfed the days away and carried the Bear into waist deep ocean, which got the Mama Bear in me to growl out loud at Papa Bear because I didn't want Baby Bear to accidentally slip from Papa's grip and get washed out to sea.

As much as Stan Bear loves bath time and the swimming pool he seems to have a healthy fear of the ocean. He wouldn't let me put him on the sand near the shore initially. He eventually did as long as I sat down right next to him. His favorite part was on the second day the beach we were at had a little inlet that the waves would gently trickle into and all of the kids on the beach seemed to love it. Stanley crawled in and up and over the little sand hill and back down and across the little inlet. He would do that over and over again. He also liked the black headed seagulls and the clouds. He points at everything now. Have a peek into our beach holiday:


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