Edie was allowed to have her pipe (pacifier) at the beach. She is still in the infant development stage of oral fixation, this means EVERYTHING goes in her mouth, and yes that includes large hand fulls and shovel fulls of beach sand. Therefore, Edie was allowed to have her pipe at the beach so she didn't eat the sand.

'Mommy I'm having so much fun.'

Reagan had made this comment to me more than once while we were at the beach. She enjoyed looking for shells, snails and crabs. It was beautiful to see them enjoying this.
Aubrey loved jumping the waves and splashing around in the cool water. Being the social butterfly she is she skipped her way over to all the little kids in the tide pools and the boys and girls building sand castles. She tried to start up conversations and handed out hugs.