Water Fun

We've had some *GORGEOUS* days lately--low 80s and no humidity.  Such nice weather for playing outside.  

A little water fun here and there...

This is last weekend.  The boys "painting" Papa's car.

Nelson Splash Pad in Plymouth.

And we went to the beach near the splash pad, too.  Tons of sea glass there!

And back home with the water table.  Adi likes to dump the bucket of water on his head.

Beatin' the Heat

It's been so hot and humid the past few days!!  I'm not complaining after the winter we had--it finally feels like SUMMER!  But still, it's hot!

We kept cool by going to the library.  The boys have certain books that are practically theirs now...Some of the Llama Llama books, a particular Batman book that Adi sleeps with (!), and The Little Blue Truck book.  The love to do puzzles there and they always want to play Magnatiles there, even though we have a lot more of them at home!?

One afternoon we set up the kiddie pool.  It was so hot and humid that all of us (including Carlos after work) got in it!!  It felt great, actually!  ;-)  The boys also were able to practice blowing bubbles and putting their heads under water without us having to hold them constantly like we do at my mom's pool.  And we threw them around a little so that they went under the water and got used to it.  The loved it.

 Today the humidity is less, but it's still darn hot.  Our awesome neighbors let us use their log splitter to chop up some wood from a tree that we had to take down this spring.  They saved us a lot of time and energy.  Sebastian actually ran the machine!  He did a pretty darn good job, too.  He figured out when to push the lever forward and backwards to make the wedge move. He had fun.  Adi wouldn't go near the machine...

We're off to Hull and the beach this afternoon after naps.  Yeah!

Lakeville Fun

Thanks to an old friend, I discovered a new playground for the boys that we LOVED.  We went today to check it out, and we'll definitely go back.  It's in Lakeville, not far from my old tennis club.

It's huge...

This little house was the boys' "office."  

It had a great "spider web" as the boys called it.  They climbed on it for a while.  Their favorite thing was actually to shake it, more than to climb it...

It's got this GREAT pirate ship structure...and there are crocodiles all around the playground.  So cute!

There is a small, independent coffee shop right down the street that I've read a lot about.  I didn't stop today, but next time!!  This place was a ton of fun!!

Buttonwood Park Zoo

Sunday the weather was supposed to be ify and we didn't know what to do.  I saw something on my Facebook feed that the Buttonwood Zoo was free.  So we jumped in the car and just went.  None of us had ever been before.  It didn't disappoint--it's a great little zoo for little kids, and it's DIFFERENT than the Capron Zoo that we just visited.  Different animals, different stuff to do.

There is a playground outside that we hit just before we left...a pretty large one that the boys really enjoyed before it started to rain.  So we left.  We had it all to ourselves!  :-)

The zoo was also deserted.  They told us it's generally slow Sunday mornings until around 11.  We got there at 10, an hour after it opened, and it was dead.  I love having places to myself.

They have two elephants!  Rosie and Emily.  They were extremely funny looking.  One was eating...I've never seen an elephant eat before, but it was comical.  It actually threw the hay up into its mouth.

I swear the elephant heard me say "Smile for a picture."  It turned around and looked right at me!!!  It was born in the 60s, so she's probably heard that a few times before...

The boys really liked the aquarium-style show they had with the seals.

 We also had a train ride all around the zoo with a CRAZY driver who purposely drove the train badly to amuse us...Sebastian loved it.

 And we went on the carousel, too.  All told, a whole morning of fun cost all of us $12--we had to pay for the train ride and the carousel.  Not bad, though.

We'd go back.  It was fun!!