Summer Daze ~ Fearless Frog Man

More from our trip to Camp Tonkawa Springs...

The boys were desperate to catch a frog! Especially my son's friend, Blaine.
He found a hole in the ground and kept listening for them.

There werequite a few around, actually.
I caught a shot of this guy swimming right around us.
Blaine tried to catch him, with no luck.
My husband caught the bigger guy in the pictures below.

He did catch it again though... and it made it home with us. Safely. GRRRRR
Why do I always insist on bringing bug jars on our outings?
I was hoping for maybe a firefly or two in the evening.
But frogs?

And I found this one...
half frog/half tadpole?
How does that even work? When is it one or the other?

And another kid there found THIS one.
EEEWWWWWWWW!!!
Look at my goofy Aidan smiling in the background...
still wearing that swim ring :-/

Ahhhhh, good times ~

Splishin' and Splashin'

Our first week of summer flew by....
and the kids have tried to stay cool in this steamy East Texas heat.

I'm so disappointed that the bottom photo on the right came out blurry, but I couldn't NOT include it. He's just so precious!  His allergies have been giving him a hard time.  His left eye has been especially puffy and swollen. I think the water play has helped. Maybe? Okay, maybe that, the Zyrtec and the veramyst.

I'm linking up for MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY.

My kiddos slide doesn't get much more yellow!

These kids have already torn up another water hose. How does that even happen?! No one will confess to it or say how it happened? Come on now. Really? I'm not going to spend another $12 to $15 for another one that they'll just tear up. Not even going to buy one of the more expensive ones that will last them a little longer either.

I took this junky torn up one and wrapped it around the limb of the big oak that goes just over the water slide that I also rigged up to go into this little "swimming pool". Well, that's what they think it is. And until I get our real WalMart mushrrom style pool up, they can keep thinking it :-) Mini Redneck water park anyone?  It has been a HUGE hit with the kids. Mine and several around the neighborhood redneck-hood.  There have been a few bumps, bruises, kid collisions and busted lips. But hey, they lived to tell it.  It'll just make them tough. Give them character. teeheehee

I think I'll write a tutorial... a DIY, on the technique I used to secure the fancy slide sprayer. Or just how I wrapped the junky torn up mess of a waterhose around the tree. Whatever. It did take skills.

I'm also linking up with these amazing sites: