{"id":1458,"date":"2011-04-18T06:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T06:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2011-04-18T06:48:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T06:48:18","slug":"first-beach-weekend-%e2%80%a2-redondo-beach-ca-%e2%80%a2-family-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/first-beach-weekend-%e2%80%a2-redondo-beach-ca-%e2%80%a2-family-time\/","title":{"rendered":"first beach weekend \u2022 redondo beach, ca \u2022 family time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-April, &amp; a gift from the gods&#8211;beach weather all weekend long! Last summer, I had planned to &#8220;live at the beach.&#8221; I was pregnant, tired, &amp; honestly in need of some lazing around, so I thought how fun it would be to schlep the girls down to the beach everyday, dig a wedge in the sand to accommodate my growing behind, &amp; lie there like the beached whale I was proud to be while they played happily for hours upon hours in the sun. Well, last summer was a bust&#8211;overcast, cloudy, &amp; cool (&#8220;June Gloom&#8221;) all the way through the fall! And then of course, some surprising amounts of rain (&amp; hail?). So&#8230;when the weather predictions on my iPhone showed temperatures in the 80&#8217;s for this weekend, I started packing the beach cart (yes, the most amazing contraption\/parent gadget I&#8217;ve ever bought). I joked with my husband that if we had the kids greased up with sunblock on Friday, we could easily be out of the house by 3 PM Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>And a glorious weekend it was. I put aside ANY plans of &#8220;accomplishing&#8221; anything&#8211;no home improvement projects, no cleaning out the garage, no getting things together to sell on Craigslist. We were out of the house in two hours flat both days, &amp; we met up with friends who augmented our great joy at being outdoors &amp; seeing our kids so organically entertained by nature.<\/p>\n<p>And it was our little Zen&#8217;s first beach outing. I think he liked it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1256136389_txFVN9N-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1256136389_txFVN9N-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1256136924_Xf5mL2X-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1256136924_Xf5mL2X-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1256136717_jJBjVR4-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1256136717_jJBjVR4-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1256136151_B8vP5dM-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1256136151_B8vP5dM-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1256136283_Z9mGjPs-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1256136283_Z9mGjPs-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1256136835_ZhZphdW-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1256136835_ZhZphdW-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-April, &amp; a gift from the gods&#8211;beach weather all weekend long! Last summer, I had planned to &#8220;live at the beach.&#8221; I was pregnant, tired, &amp; honestly in need of some lazing around, so I thought how fun it would be to schlep the girls down to the beach everyday, dig a wedge in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,7,39,6],"tags":[10,40,33,34,110,12,109,114,17,108],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-babies-children","category-personal","category-family-session","tag-babies","tag-beach","tag-black-white","tag-colour","tag-babies-children","tag-natural","tag-outdoors","tag-personal","tag-toddlers","tag-family-session"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}