Sandbox

Our weekend project this week was to fill Sam's sandbox. He had one of those small sand tables when he was little and that's the scale he was thinking of. He really couldn't comprehend that he had a sandbox at the bottom of his fort that was just missing the sand. Chris put down lanscaping fabric and then proceeded to load the 24 bags of play sand into the sandbox. That's right ... twenty-four 50lb bags of sand ... more than a half ton of sand.

The floor of the fort is the sandbox cover. It also acts as a shade when the sun is setting. Bonus!



I got a bunch of sand toys from the dollar store and threw in all of the McDonald's toys we've been collecting for the past few months. It was a big hit. Sam laid in the sandbox and covered himself with sand.



Sam ran next doors and invited the neighbors over to play. He was yelling at them through the door before they answered it ... telling them all about his new sandbox.



Apparently the thing that is the most fun to do is kick the sand out of the sandbox. I predict that we'll have to replace one or two bags of sand per month this summer.



The bubble gun was also a big hit.



Ben got to play in the sandbox after his nap. You could tell he was getting a big kick out of the different texture. He was squealing and throwing the toys around.



He was super drooly and got covered in sand. Both boys were filthy and exhausted and couldn't wait to go to bed.