Playing by the river

We went to play by the river and take the kids swimming. They do not swim, it turns out. So we played in the sand and jumped on rocks instead. It was great!!

A watery baton

Ah, the things you can whack with a watery baton...

The splash pad

We had lots of fun at the splash pad! Kids and water always seem to go so well together.

(see Gwendolyn making a break for our little friends sandals?)
























I was trying to get a picture of Gwendolyn in her new swim suit cover up before we left because it is adorable. But she had other ideas. So, here are a few blurry pictures of her standing under my feet trying to get the camera :)

The tractor in the water

Lucas got a new tractor yesterday. It used to be an indoor toy... Ahem. Now it's an outdoor toy.

I left a bag of potting soil unattended on the deck a week or so ago. It didn't go unnoticed. Lucas has been playing in the dirt, shoveling it onto his toys and the deck. Messy, but oh so fun. It somehow didn't occur to me that when it rained, the dirt would turn to mud. Much messier. But even more fun :)

While we waited...

.. for our crayons to cook, Lucas played in the sink.

Our neighbors brought over a few pounds of strawberries for us yesterday - how awesome is that??

Lucas has eaten almost the entire container already.. In less than a day.. Yeah, the boy loves his fruit :) One of his new favorite activities is washing his own fruit in the sink and eating it.

Fun all around

Lucas using glitter glue - what can be better than sticky glitter??? Bwahahaha. We have one sparkly house these days! (See his pet tiger in the cage sitting on the table with him? It watches television with us, too..)

Lately, we have had a fascination with taping things to the wall. These are the pictures that Lucas took a little while back and we had printed. I left the pictures sitting on Lucas's art table for him to find when he woke up from his nap. Before I noticed, he colored them all. He enjoys them all the more now :)

And my sweet tiny girl digging through her basket of toys. She loves old fashioned clothespins.

And both kids playing in water on the kitchen floor :) Lucas enjoys dumping water from one cup to the next (with a generous amount spilling on the floor) Gwendolyn is playing in the water that escaped from the towel :)