Woodard Bay Hike

The boys and I spent the weekend in Tacoma to celebrate Kellie's birthday. Tone' came down to their home and hung out with the boys, Chad and Zach while Kellie and I went kayaking in Gig Harbor. It was absolutely wonderful just kayaking around looking at all the sea creatures, critiquing the houses and checking out all the boats, plus a little seal decided to pop his head up at us and see what we were up to. Unfortunately, neither of us thought to take our cameras:( Sad. I did, however, bring it with us on our hike at Woodard Bay in Olympia on the way back home.

Nikolas actually hiked the whole way without asking to be carried, amazing! Lukey did great on the hike in, but suddenly went to whining, grumpy child the second we headed back.
On the way in.
Apparently he must have tired himself out with all the running.

We came at low tide, so it was just a great expanse of muck.

Mud plus yuck = Muck

Uncle Chad pointing out all the cool little creatures hiding under the rocks.

Aunt Kellie even caught a little tiny crab so Nik could hold it!
I'm sure her "cool aunt" status soared with Nik:)

Hmmm, not sure what was going on here, but sometimes this is just how one has to deal with a finicky two year old. I can only imagine he wanted to see some creatures, but didn't want to be set down, but didn't want Chad to squat cause then he would be too close to the creatures.......and so on. He really is a crazy kid.

Quite content in Uncle Chad's arms.

All along the path there were slugs and snails. The boys were very excited to hunt for them and point out the next "BIG ONE!". Lukas thought this little guy was sleeping, so henceforth, all snails are now called, "sleeping snails".

The best part: they both passed out in the car soon after leaving Olympia, giving me a peaceful two hour drive home.