A summer activity

A lot of the summer was spent outside.  When we weren't swimming, the kids (especially Ethan) were using the hose to make their own "hot tub" in the sandbox.  Ethan took it upon himself to enjoy the hot tub "au natural".

Do you see the sparse stalks of something growing in front of the play structure (right by the red pail on the far upper left corner)?  

That would be the bird seed that Mason planted.  

Here the results today:

Do you see the sunflowers growing in the "fertile" sand of the sandbox?  It's amazing anything came up in that sand....I guess he's got a green thumb?  (That will be useful when he becomes a pickle farmer - his life ambition).

The kids have been begging us for a bunny.  We've told them that they need to take care of a plant first, before they take on the responsibility of a pet.

Mason was the first to let us know that he, indeed, already took care of a plant and even planted it from seed!