Water Balloons

Picture another long hot day, spent largely indoors being inactive and petrfiying.  Fat cells are accumulating, blood is stagnating, and worst of all, the realization has come that the worst heat of summer hasn't even begun.  Everyone is tired of Monopoly, crafts, and TV.   Nobody wants to go to the pool.

So what do we do instead?

Water balloons!!

Yep, good old Wal-Mart delivers once again.  While grocery shopping today we passed a display of containers of water balloons.  Five hundred baloons for five dollars.

Sam the math whiz quickly figured this came out to "one cent for each balloon!!"  The boys were thrilled, we bought the balloons, and came home.  They ran outside and jumped right into wet and wild mayhem.

I honestly thought they'd get bored after about twenty minutes, but they remained out there nearly an hour and a half.

There was a lot of laughing and shrieking and running around.

The boys came in drenched and feeling peppy.

I have a feeling tomorrow will be another water balloon day!!

And as a side note....

would I stand in the way of creativity?  Of course not.  So when Benny wants a mess of cups so he can create a "tower," I let him have them.  And here it is:

Spectacular!