Trinity has been a little feverish the past couple days, so yesterday we had to cancel our big plans for the day - a trip to Wal-Mart. Great tourist attraction, I know! That's ok, I caught up on my tanning. Today we went to the beach for the first time this trip and Trinity played in the sand. While I was tanning and listening to the surf, Trinity would put shells in my outstretched hand. If my hand wasn't open, she'd turn it over for me. It was pretty cute. The beach was more of a surfing beach, so I went in the water for a total of about three seconds. Dad and Wilma didn't go in because "water is wet," and Trinity is still scared of the waves.

At home, Trinity likes to drag us outside to see the holographic Santas and reindeer made of Christmas lights, which she'll "oooh" at, at least once an evening. Or she will make me come outside with her to draw with sidewalk chalk. Every day she changes our games of peek-a-boo and shakes her head, waves her hands, and says "alles alles" (her expression for no) when I'm not hiding in the right place. Then she'll point to me, or poke me, and walk me to where I'm supposed to hide. She's very cute. When we got our fake Christmas tree (Hawaii has a Christmas tree shortage this year) she helped me decorate it by putting candy canes on the tree. So now you can see the little area at the bottom which is dense with half-broken candy canes, since she can't reach any higher. We're also trying to teach her to only touch the glass ball ornaments with one finger. This works for a while, before she starts to get frustrated and starts swatting at them, and we have to take her away.

I think we're going to the farmer's market tomorrow.