Water fun!

I think I have mentioned that's it's hot here(oh, about every other post!).  It is.  I've lived in Kansas almost all of my life and I know it gets hot here but this year has been bad.  I think it is on track to be one of the hottest.  I think it's worse when you have little kids too(although not nearly as bad as when you are pregnant- not that I am).  It's almost like winter, it's just not doable to go outside and play some days.  On the days that it isn't as hot, we do try to go outside and play... mostly with some water.  This year we finally got around to planting something in our front flower beds.  I'm sure my neighbors were appreciative of this.  We, of course need to water the plants and this has turned into play time.  :)  I took pictures the first time it happened.  For two reasons, it was the first time it happened and we were in our PJ's.  Yes, you read that right, we were in our pj's.  Here's the background... kids needed a bath, it was hot and I needed to water the flowers, I wasn't going to get them dressed to go outside and water the flowers and then bring them in and give them a bath and it seemed silly to me to give them a bath and then go outside to water the flowers and just get hot and sweaty again so we went out for a quick water with PJ's on.  This is what happened....

Yes, that is a little bit redneckish but they had fun!  And I think only one neighbor saw us(although I called and confessed to another... and invited her children to join us- only if they were in their pj's too!).

After several times of hose water play I thought we might need to get out our "frog pool" that my friend Jill got for O last year.  We were very disappointed to find that something had eaten a whole in it over the winter.  How sad! Well, a couple weekends ago, James' mom and sister came over for a visit.  Somehow I managed to get no pictures from the weekend.  I think the main reason for that is because Saturday morning we all went shopping!  Shopping pictures are not all that exciting.  Anyway, a Sears Grand store by us is turning back into a K-Mart so they are having a super-duper sale. We found a little pool for the kids half off!

Yes, water comes out of the elephant's nose and the zebra's mouth.  Fun times!  I guess all the swimming in such a big pool makes you tired...

With his love of water, I was very surprised that S did not get in right away.  He was pretty content to stay on the outside and play with the elephant.  He did get in when our neighbors came over for a swim a week or so later.

And O, with her not love of water, jumped right in!  Kids are funny! :)

Where was I during all this?  Well, taking pictures until James took the camera from me and I got in. 

I guess they were about done by the time I got in because both of them didn't want to "swim" anymore.  So we had fun splashing :)