We finally got some warm weather the past few days. It has been so nice to spend time down by the lake swimming and playing by the water. The sandy beach on the right side of our little island is ok, but there is still a big step down into the water and Shane has trouble maneuvering himself there. Yesterday we took a little rubber row raft and filled it up with lake water right next to the edge of the lake and gave Shane a few toys and he played there for a couple of hours and really enjoyed himself.
The other boys jumped on and off the rafts and threw buckets of dirt and water at each other all afternoon. Then they took a bar of soap that they found in the back of the golfcart and gave each other baths in the lake “just like grandpa”. They had to go underwater to rinse themselves off and at night they insisted that they didn’t need to take a shower because they took a lake bath!
Today John and I took the boys on a boat ride to harbor island to look for pudding stones. They each brought a bucket and walked all over the shoreline. We found a lot of pudding stones in the water just about a foot into the water. Sam was actually the best at finding pudding stones without help. He got so excited every time that he found one and wanted to know if he could bring it home!
When we got home the boys spent a long time washing and scrubbing their rocks clean! I am going to have to come up with some crafts using our pudding stones so that we can continue to funnel that energy into something productive and fun!
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