Fun in the sun...

We have been taking advantage of the awesome weather!  I have always loved smoothies, and now Colin loves them too!  We try to make them often... I mean what better way to get some healthy food in my boy (and me!)  We've also been having "smoothie picnics" outside =)

 

Colin has also really enjoyed his water table.  He actually doesn't get too wet either (usually)... well his shoes get soaked, but the rest of him not so much.  I was trying to get him to smile at the camera and I kept telling him to say random things so that he would look up at me and smile.  Obviously it didn't work.  I caught him mid sentence, but there is a hint of a smile there!

 

He really likes to make "puddles" all over the deck.  So his main goal is to take all the water out of the water table and splash it around everywhere else.

 

We have played with chalk.  There are tons of little Colin's on our driveway.  He liked to lay down and us outline him. 

 

The glasses?  Those are because the chalk is 3-D... and yes it really works.  Pretty neat.  Here is Colin trying to put the glasses on...

 

Garet has started trying to get rid of some of our weeds in the yard.  We have this nice area next to the porch stairs that the previous owners planted veggies in... don't know if I will get to it this season, but I would love to do that eventually!  But in the meantime, we are getting up weeds.  Colin has liked to help us dig =)   In fact, I think in this picture he was looking for worms...

 

We have started getting a [much needed] fence for our backyard, yay!, so we haven't been able to play back there.  Yesterday I walked out the front door with Colin and looked around and thought, what are we going to do out here??  So I had the bright idea to get a big tote and some tupperware and fill it up with water.  Fun, right?  Colin can splash and pour water out... it will be just like his water table...

Well it took approximately 3 minutes for Colin to put his whole foot: shoes, socks, and jeans into the water... So, I thought well whatever, he will just get a little wet, so I took off his shoes and socks and rolled his jeans... 

 

Well that quickly lead to this:

 

And apparently the bottom of a tote is really slippery because once this happened it took less than a minute for him to slip and completely sit down in the water!  He LOVED it!  His smile and laugh made me smile and laugh... so after a few more pictures I took his pants off too and he had a blast getting wet!