The sun has set, and immi is still playing with legos.

Immi made this diorama type thing — she took it to the kitchen, I think because she didn’t want Ashland to take it apart. It’s a princess tea cake party with circus entertainment.

I got out nesting plastic cups that immi used to play with for her little brother. She is far too smart to enjoy nesting/stacking now but she found new use for them! It’s a field of plastic flowers for her twin Hello Kitties to sleep in…or something like that. She is quite specific about where each cup goes, so it’s like an installation right?

And here’s the variation this time created on a kitchen floor.

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.

This little mountain is actually a lot bigger (with very tall trees!) than I thought it would be considering it’s sort of in the middle of Portland.

Immi going Jackson Pollock on her paper.

Here’s the finished piece. Just so there’s no confusion (i.e. You offer her $8000 for this painted piece of paper — several pieces of notebook paper stuck together actually — and then tell me she didn’t possibly do this on her own, I take the credit for purple dots on the left hand corner. I did those when she had just started on it ).

Here’s another one:

We had quite ordinary (though still special!) day for her birthday since we can’t really top going to the beach! Immi had the bestest time with her ice cream factory. She always says “nununununu” when she squeezes out “ice cream” — she is totally into onomatopoeias (of her own creations), she uses them about as much as a Japanese person would speaking in Japanese.

…And then she took a nap with her Hello Kitties

And then after that we went to ToysRus (when we drove past by the other day, she wanted to go in) and she got to pick which ever toy she wanted. After walking every aisle, she picked out Strawberry-Shortcake-mobile. Actually she’s wanted this several times at Target but we never got it, so I’m glad she finally got exactly what she wanted (and I’m glad she picked an reasonable item what I didn’t need to veto!). She has been obsessed with this thing since then and still playing with it this morning.

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.

It’s a really beautiful beach, and it’s a beautiful day! We don’t even need a jacket.

Immi is splashing about at the edge of the ocean. I had no idea that rain boots had such use!

Immi’s dad took off his shoes to cross the river to take photos, and immi is pleading him to let her take off hers. (The answer is “NO!”, it’s nice out, but the water is cold. Really cold.)

beach

Immi was splashing about so much and the bigger wave came in and the cold water got in her boots. So I offered immi her jacket thinking she might be cold, but then she got really mad! As it turns out, she was upset at the sight of jacket because she thought that it means we are leaving, and she didn’t want to leave the beach!