I'm not sure if anyone still reads this, and totally out of character for me, 2 post in one week. But my kids do funny things all the time and I somehow forget or run out of time at the end of the day to share. Today, however, I have to share with who ever still reads.(Hi Julie!)
My kids are kind of going through summer withdrawal. The last few weeks of summer they spent alot of time in the water, the pool-the beach. Today they really wanted to go swimming, especially Colson! But we didn't have a pool to go to, so I told them I would go get a slip-n-slide. They were happy with that! So AK and I took Avery to Rebecca's and then we went to the store. We went to Dollar General, CVS, and finally Walmart. NO SLIP-N-SLIDES! We opted for a little circle sprinkler. Now the kids on the box must have been much smaller than my kids because it wasn't near as big as it appeared on the box. It didn't shoot water out very high either. Colson played in it for about 3 minutes, alone. Then we/I tried to turn on the sprinkler system. Now we have lived in our house for about a year and I have no idea how to control that stupid thing! So I tried for about 10 minutes to get the sprinklers in the backyard to come on. (At least we were in the backyard-so the neighbors couldn't watch.) I was completely unsuccessful! So finally about 30 minutes after my kids had been waiting with bathing suits on, they played in the water hose! They had a BLAST! Why didn't I think of that sooner?? I'm sure we looked like Rednecks who can't afford a swimming pool, oh yeah maybe that's what we are.
Cost of Ocean Friends Sprinkler -- $6.88
Cost of New Water Hose -- $8.00
Throwing everything away and just playing in the water --
PRICELESS!
2 comments:
yeah well...i love those rednecks! and we would have joined right in if we had been there. happy birthday!
It's like in the movie Billy Madison where Norm Macdonald is spraying the kid with the water hose and the kid is like "stop it mister." I can see your kids now, "Mommy stop spraying us." I bet they had fun and hey you have to do what you have to do. Next time just throw them in the shower. :) Seriously, like I said, I know they had fun. I had a blast running throw the sprinkler when I was a kid. I guess it's time for you to get a pool. Right?
Andy
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