back to the beach

February 21st, 2010 | By Kyoko

We were out having our Saturday Coffee yesterday morning…and it was such a *blah* of a morning! When I mentioned this to Todd, he totally agreed. We talked about how some days are just so *blah* and it’s pointless trying to work hard on those days since nothing good will come of it anyways.

So then we got to talking about cure of *blah* …and we both thought “beach!!”. It’s only 1.5 hours away and we really didn’t do it justice last time having spent only a few hours (when we had intended on taking a mini vacation at the beach). We went home and I got packing and Todd finished up a few things and off we went. We made it to the beach long before sunset!

Immi of course is really really happy. (She even says “Happy!” these days!)

You’ll be so bored of immi-and-the-sunset-at-the-beach photos, but hey, there are far worse things you can get bored of

After the sunset, we drove 10 minutes from Cannon beach to Seaside beach where we had booked for a night at a Bed&Breakfast while driving down here. We found a candy shop and immi is excited trying to pick out few special ones.

When we woke up this morning, we walked down to the Seaside beach, and then had morning coffee at a coffee shop named “The Coffee Shop”. Immi seems to think that the jelly donut is heaven.

We decided that we like Cannon beach (we think that the beach is much prettier, there’s less people, and has cuter town) a lot better so we drove back to Cannon beach and hanging out for a bit before heading home.

the coast

February 9th, 2010 | By Todd

Today is a very special day because it is Immi’s 3rd birthday! This weekend we decided to just go to the coast because Immi just loves the ocean so much. These are a few of the photographs I took, they turned out pretty…well – see for yourself:

Immi Reflections on Cannon Beach

Metaphysical Immi

Immi Exploring Cannon Beach

No name for any of these photographs yet, going to be few more posts soon because we go too many great pictures.

sunday

May 24th, 2009 | By Kyoko

We are spending a bit more time on the beach before heading home later today. It’s another perfectly beautiful day.

Immi seems determined to keep watering the entire beach until the ocean runs out of water…

Todd found many sand crabs. Immi is putting them back on the beach and watching them burrow back into sand.

We are on our way to dinner with immi’s grandparents for some seafood. During the very short drive, immi fell asleep.

We are getting ready to leave the beachhouse and packing and cleaning. Immi is helping out by emptying out contents of her purse in the bathroom.

afternoon at the beach

May 23rd, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi’s grandparents drove down this afternoon and we are all enjoying the beach. It’s a perfect weather (sunny but not too hot and the ocean is warm) for spending the afternoon outside.

Immi isn’t scared of the waves at all today!

Immi and her dad are busy building sand castle.

Todd says about the castle “not the prettiest castle” (…those are NOT his exact words) but as you can see, it’s big for the amount of time they had working against the tide coming in, and it’s quite functional as a fort:)

Here’s immi and I. Immi really loves this yellow watering can. She kept demanding it be refilled with water.

boardwalk

May 23rd, 2009 | By Kyoko

We can’t come to this beach and not get  Britt’s Donuts, so we are at the boardwalk this morning…getting the famous donuts. I like them, but immi won’t even try it.

There is various festivities going on at the beach due to Memorial Day weekend. Here’s a mini carnival set up at the boardwalk which was filled with much much more people then we’ve ever seen at this quiet beach last night (we just drove past by yesterday). It’s quiet and a bit deserted now,I’m guessing people are sleeping-in!

friday

May 22nd, 2009 | By Kyoko

We are taking the ferry to Southport NC. It’s sunny and almost too hot outside.

We are having lunch at a little cafe called Baked With Love. Everyone who works here is so nice and they brought for immi a toy tea set to play with!

We are back at the beach house. There’s fireworks at the boardwalk near by and we can see it from our balcony!

beach

May 21st, 2009 | By Kyoko

It’s really nice out today (slightly cloudy, which is exactly how I like it on the beach!) and we are taking a walk on the beach. Immi is a bit unsure about the ocean and seems to feel more comfortable on her dad’s shoulder.

Enjoying the ocean breeze.

After a short while Immi seems to have gotten used to the ocean and now confidently walking along the beach on her own. She is grabbing and scattering sand into the wind.

A big wave came in and I lifted her up so that immi won’t get too wet!

…walking back home.

We drove down to Wilmington for tea in the afternoon. Immi is fascinated by the sand timer!

sunday

April 26th, 2009 | By Kyoko

We are still in Cville (going home later today) and having breakfast at Greenberry’s. Immi is having some pastry and apple juice.

Immi is very happy to be sitting on her daddy’s lap.

shower

April 25th, 2009 | By Kyoko

It’s a really nice day out and here we are with our friends at Greenleaf Park. Immi is determined to play on every play-structure they have here even though it’s a bit hot in the sun (Aurie and I are chatting away while immi plays!)

Kevin, Wendy and Immi. Immi has been dragging around her rabbit, kitty, a sheet of stickers, and a princess wand which Jamie, Peter, and Ian got for her (thank you! She adores it, obviously!).

Here’s Immi and Carey playing in the sun.

We are hanging out in the shade having yummy treats.

Thank you so much all of you guys for celebrating our baby No.2 and making us feel so very special and blessed to have such wonderful friends. …and also for the cutest baby boy clothes and toys. And Aurie, for the coolest Hello Kitty p-leather pillow for immi:)

…not in the photo is Ian who is Peter & Jaimee’s 2 year old boy (we didn’t seem to have taken many pictures at all…too busy catching up!). It’s been more than a year since Immi and Ian has seen each other. Their birthdays are 5 weeks apart and I’ve been enjoying watching him grow remotely through Jaimee’s blog, and it was so good to see him in person!

charlottesville!

April 25th, 2009 | By Kyoko

We are in Cville this weekend because my lovely friends are having baby shower for us for the baby No.2. We got in late last night and crashing Jordan’s place. We are having breakfast now at Bodo’s Bagel, our favorite bagel place! Immi is busy decorating her pink cat.

Immi and decorated kitty.

camping

September 20th, 2008 | By Kyoko

We are camping in the GW National Forest area. Jordan invited us (and 8 of his other friends!) to stay in his family friend’s hunting lodge located on a spacious grassy flat land surrounded by the forest. We drove down here last night (about 2.5 hour drive) and now enjoying the gorgeous day out.

Immi is running around and playing in the tall and fluffy grass.

Jordan is making for us a tub of homemade strawberry ice cream!! Immi is spectating.

Immi is setting up her toy picnic.

Immi and I.

bye!

August 29th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Today was the last day at the beach — the week went by so fast! Immi’s grandparents, immi and I spent a lot of time by the ocean today. Immi is no longer scared of the waves. She had so much fun walking into the water and then running away from the incoming waves (I don’t have any photo/video of this because my hand was wet all the time!). We even had lunch on the beach (sandwich and chips!). Immi did get a little tan despite the waterproof sunblock.

Here’s immi taking a nap after her bath.

Immi’s grandparents’ friends (the ones who kindly took us boating earlier this week) came over for dinner and when they were getting ready to leave, Immi waved, said “bye!” and showed them where the door was. IMMI SAID “BYE!” — it took me a while to realize that it was a new word since she has been waving ‘bye-bye’ for a while now, but hasn’t actually said the word.

We are packing our bags tonight since we are leaving early tomorrow morning. Immi is packed and ready to go!

Southport

August 28th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi, her grandparents and I are taking the ferry to Southport (a little town in NC about 20 minutes by boat and 1.5 hours by car from the beach house) today!

We are having lunch at Fishy Fishy Cafe. Of all yummy things on the table, Immi seems to enjoy the complimentary oyster crackers the best.

We took a very nice walk around the town, spent some time on the big swing, and had fun looking around in the really cute toy shop where Immi adopted a little lemur (we think it’s a lemur…a mouse lemur?). Immi got so tired that she fell a sleep while we strolled back to the car and didn’t wake up at all the entire ride back to the beach house.

evening

August 27th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi’s grandparents are at the town meeting and Immi and I are talking a walk on the beach.

Immi is playing with sand.

Immi is running.

Immi is sitting and looking at seashells and seaweed that have washed up with the tide.

seashells

August 27th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi is playing with her beach toys in the sand. (She is refusing to wear a hat today for some reason…)

She is collecting seashells!

Immi is shuttling shells back and forth between a designated spot on the blanket and her ocean filled purple bucket.

aquarium

August 26th, 2008 | By Kyoko

We are at the aquarium today! Immi is watching the alligators.

Immi and Mr. Moose are looking for fish in the big tank.

Immi is watching huge lobsters in the cylindrical tank.

Immi was so excited to be at the aquarium that she ran around every which way looking into various tanks until she was completely exhausted. At this point, she suddenly flopped onto the aquarium floor and cried!

walk

August 25th, 2008 | By Kyoko

It was rainy earlier today but it cleared up so we are taking an evening walk.

Immi is very happy to be on the beach!

Immi is sitting and playing with sand under her feet.

Then suddenly, she realized how tired she was from having no nap and got very grumpy. It started to sprinkle a little too, so we headed home.

nap & boat

August 24th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi is taking a nap after lunch in the living room.

We are on a boat with Immi’s grandparents and their friends who live in the area. Immi loves boating! She likes having wind in her hair and she pointed and cheered when she saw birds and other boats.

We docked the boat at a Harbor Masters, a seafood restaurant, for dinner. I had crabcake sandwich and Immi got mac&cheese. She ate more than half of her plate (it was quite a big serving!) on her own with a fork!

beach

August 24th, 2008 | By Kyoko

It’s past noon and we are enjoying the beach!

There is lots of strong winds and big waves which made immi a little scared of the ocean. She preferred sitting in her purple beach chair buried in toys.

After quite a long while of relaxing in her chair, Immi decided to play with the beach toys and a bucket of ocean that I had brought for her to the edge of our blanket.

Sand in her toes!

Even though we are having such a nice time with immi’s grandparents and the beautiful beach, Immi misses her daddy a whole lot (and I do too!). We hope you were here!