Hours and hours and hours of FUN!

i've been keeping an eye out on craigslist for a sand and water table since tanner had so much fun playing with his friend's. i finally found one monday, and lance picked it up that night. tanner and i made a quick trip to the dollar section at target tuesday morning to get a few sand toys.

after lunch and naps, he finally got to play...

and play...

with an occasional break to sweep up his mess (he LOVES the broom...carries it around with him everywhere!).

so what'd we do the next day? yup, you guessed it! he was banging on the backdoor ready to go out as soon as he finished breakfast! so we played...

 

 and played...

 and dug...

 and dumped...

 

we didn't even break for lunch...we just had a picnic outside (well, the picnic consisted of me chasing tanner around the backyard with bites of food...but that's close to a picnic, right?!)

"what's the problem, mom?! why can't i play in the sand all day long and go back and forth and in and out of the house? you don't want sand everywhere?! well, why not?"

and in other news, we had our weight check today and i'm proud to report that little man gained about 1.5 pounds in the last 6 weeks...he's up to 21.6 lbs. not too shabby considering he wasn't eating much for 2 of those weeks!