October 24, 2007

I couldn't fall asleep, so I stayed up past 1 AM reading a book Anma lent me to read. It was called The Glass Castle. After giving Gianna a bath, I read a few books to her, and she passed out. I decided to just stay in the bedroom and read. I took this picture of her to send to Papa.

In the morning, Gigi was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. What a silly expression. She was raring to go, but I was a bit sleepy.

I brought out her cup from last night's dinner to see if she could still use the straw. She could.

I think Gigi was really thirsty, because she pulled out the straw...

started to lift the cup...

and drank straight from the opening at the top.

In the afternoon, I backpacked Gigi and we went to the beach. The beach access is only a half block away from the house. I walked down several flights of steps, since the house is on a cliff. When we got to the beach, Gigi didn't want to come out of the backpack. She was very clingy.

I put her back in the pack, and walked a bit to the other beach access from the park. Along the beach we saw many dogs and birds. Gigi loved it! After climbing back up to the park, I packed her to the playground. She played on the swing, the jungle gym, and in the sand with some buckets that I brought. The bad news is that she decided to "taste" the sand, despite my objections.

We began to "walk" back home, but Gigi wanted to crawl instead. She got FILTHY! The dust storm this past weekend covered everything with a thick layer of dirt! I ended up putting her back in the pack and carried her home.

For a treat, we ate a mango outside, then played on the lawn. It was a great day!