My boys really really want a slip and slide. They talk about it, watch the commercials, beg. cajole and plead for one and I remain steadfast in my resolve "I ain't buying you one...damn it the last one we had your fat ass uncle Bean thought he would give it a whirl and ended up destroying it a week after we got it"
They look at me with the yard sprinkler in hand and their little dark eyes so sad and say "Please mama can we have another slip and slide...please, we won't let dad or uncle Andrew use it. WE PROMISE" and again I say "Nooooo Noooooo Noooooo"
Yesterday I sent them out with their friends to play in the yard sprinkler. They wanted to place it under the trampoline and I said "Noooooo Nooooo Noooo" and then followed it with "Ya'll do that you know you are gonna break a leg or an arm" and they pleaded and cried "But the yard sprinkler is BORING and it SUCKS" to which they got "Do I look like I care...figure something out to make it more fun"
Eventually their little brains wrapped around ways to improve the sprinkler experience. A TARP!! So they drug out a big ass tarp and tent staked it to the ground using it actual sticks and then turned the yard sprinkler on it and away they went. Then they white trashed it up a notch and used their toboggans and saucer sleds to slide across it.
Impressive....kudos kiddos. Boys 1 - Mama - 0.
Like a waterfall in slow motion, Part One
2 years ago
Ohhhh, out smarted by the boys.
ReplyDeleteI want that slip n slide with the boogie board!
Just imagine all those emergency room trips....