First trip to the beach

A-chan at the beach! Actually a small man-made beach at a local park with a lake, but it's a good first run. A school of fish swam around with us for a while, perhaps curious about us. A-chan really liked that part! I had lots of fun jumping her up and down in the shallow water. I love the beach, any beach :D

She was ready to just run straight into the water which I was amazed at, having expected to coax her in. The star float ring was a big hit and I really loved that. Keeping her afloat in the water would have been quite a chore without it!

And amazingly, not one of us got sunburned - we all had major coatings of spf 50 sunscreen that worked a whole lot better during this hour swim than it had during the Ren . Faire.

The Melancholy of Wha?

Ketu has found the ultimate toddler computer accessory: YouTube Anime Music Videos. Okay, one in particular which has been continually resounding in our heads ever since A-chan saw it, fell head over heels in dance-love with it and had it installed on her computer. The thing is...it's a great song. And a really good video. I love it almost as much as she does.

So Ketu asked, "does it make me a bad father or a good father that I taught my 2 year old how to nav YouTube?" (not the whole thing luckily, just the part where she can replay this video endlessly)

The really cool thing is that we've been introduced not only to an awesome band but also one of the greatest anime of the year. We hadn't heard of either of them - we are soooo old. Since we loved the vid but didn't know what anime it came from I did some searching. The best place for anime info: animenation.com! As soon as I knew which anime it was I found it on Netflix and the first DVD was on it's way within 24 hours. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - a rather bizarre name for an anime, but we love it. Ketu did the search for the music and found out that it was done by a swedish band and the song's name is "Caramel Dansen" which after listening to it non stop for 3 days you can begin to actually hear in the song even though none of it is in english :D

Here's your chance to see it for yourself...