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The next day, they decided to take Isaac to the beach.
"We can take turns with him," David said. "I need to get a lot of baby time."
The water drew itself up into each wave, drops flinging themselves upward from the crest, into the sky. The sun was in the hesitant part of the afternoon, heading down now, but very slowly. In a few hours it would be ready to drop. The light made the waves and water a flat silver in color, so different from the mornings that Timothy came out here, when the sun shone into the waves, making them translucent and green.
He pulled Isaac's clothes off, wiped some sticky banana off his chin and underneath, where mushed banana was caught in a fold. Isaac had been putting on weight— he had become a round little guy with chubby knees. He smiled at Timothy and Ti
