It's late where you are!

Lazy Sunday's are the greatest, aren't they? Today was such a great day! After a night of Greta sleeping in her crib,(well okay, we had some scream outs when she awoke and needed comfort), but all in all she was in her crib until 5am when I brought her with us; we awoke with the only plan of the day to go to the beach.

Just a 20-25 minute drive (some traffic as we pass the Dole Plantation to get there), we arrived at the North Shore. Much to our surprise there was a nice sized farmers market, and yes, we did stop! How exciting! After my depressing trip to Safeway, don't know what it is about that store, but I despised the one in VA too; I was happy to see local produce. We have a market in our own town too which was this morning, but going to the beach seemed more of a priority. The market was great, fresh pineapple, tomatoes, onions, papaya, guava, string beans etc. They even had a contest for the heaviest taro! Exciting, right? Fresh local produce from local farms, it was fantastic- may even be our new Sunday thing! We left with onions, tomatoes, string beans, zucchini, gr. pepper and shredded papaya! I wish I can remember the farm where we bought the papaya, because the wonderful girl there gave us a recipe for thai papaya (hot peppers, lime, sugar, fish sauce, papaya and fresh tomatoes). This time we may just eat it in a cold salad, but the recipe is on our list of things to do!

We spent some time at the Beach, not our favorite spot thus far, but it was a nice, uncrowded area where we were able to see plenty of paddleboarders! Greta just LOVED the beach. She would pick up sand and drop it, try to eat it, find a stone and crawl to that one, pick it up, find another! She was all smiles. The water-SHE LOVES TO BE IN WATER! She would sit at the shore playing in sand, and as the tide broke and soaked her, she never blinked an eye! Even when we thought, "oh this one will scare her", no flinch! (trust me the water would be covering just her legs, we aren't crazy!). Of course, I was fearful about too much sun exposure, so we didn't stay long.

Speaking of sun exposure, I have grown increasing concerned over the past few years about chemicals and what we put in and on our bodies. Now that sunscreen will be a staple, I went back to a link that I had read in a previous blog. Go ahead look up your sunscreen. We have been avid users of Aveeno, that has to be good right? WRONG, one of the worst. I love California Baby products and try to be as natural with our little girl as possible, but this can be expensive. Looks like Johnson & Johnson got a great score and may be more affordable-who knew!

Once again I have written a long entry, probably boring anyone who reads it! But when it's late where you are and I want to share our day, this is what I would have said!

Goodnight
C-N-G