Car Wash!

After painting with cars, we needed to clean them, so I filled up the water table with soapy water, a sponge, and an old toothbrush. Trip collected the painted cars as well as some others and got right to work.

The sponge was his favorite cleaning tool and he was quite meticulous.

He liked to make the cars splash in the soapy water.

His concentration was only momentarily broken by the sound of a plane.

"Look, Mommy, a plane!"

Then, it was right back to work, this time to give the cars a shower.

The Great Sidewalk Chalk Playdate

Now that school is out, we get to have our friends over more often. On this particular day, Trip had six friends spend the day at our house. He was thrilled! A box of sidewalk chalk provided the perfect distraction for all those kids. They worked with chalk two times, both of which lasted about an hour and they made sure that our driveway was well covered with artwork!

Since they were all taking swimming lessons, I created a little ocean scene for them to "swim" in. They loved posing for their pictures!

A little editing added to the underwater effect.

The girls created an ocean scene of their own.

Trip wanted to "swim" with them. :)

The older boys were quite pleased with their stop sign.