Water Fun

Mark is finally getting used to water. He's never really been a big fan, and even now washing his hair can be quite a chore. Forget those splash pads and other such places that are all around. He wants nothing to do with them. Funny thing, he loves boats, the boardwalk, looking at the Gulf and lakes. And the river, he loves rivers and watching them flow by. But it is all buy impossible to get him into the water.

This summer every Thursday is going to be Splash Day at our house. We have it on our playgroup calendar and invite everyone to drop in and play for a while. We start at 1030 and run until 330 or so- folks will come and go as they wish.

By having water toys and stuff I'm hoping that Mark gets over whatever it is that is keeping him from enjoying water sports.

We had some friends over today to play in the little pool and some sprinkler fun. Let me tell you, we found the BEST toy for Mark. It's the Sizzlin' Cool Aqua Blast Hopscotch. Mark had the best time playing with his friends in it.





They boys (three two year olds) had a wonderful time with it. Now of course they weren't necessarily playing hop scotch the correct way- but the point is that they had a great time getting wet. You can buy it at Toys R Us for $10, but we got ours at Target (not online) for half the price. It was $5 well spent.

It's very easy to set up- literally unroll it and attach it to a hose. It comes with hop scotch markers (we put them aside as we aren't using it to play the hopscotch game). I was wondering how Mark would do with the water when it came out, but he absolutely loved it. Typical two year olds, they were all investigating it to see how it worked and where the water came from. Eventually they moved on to the pool, the climber, even the soccer goal - but they always went back to the hopscotch. It was a hit. I look forward to watching Mark and his friends have fun with it all summer long.