Water Day

On a Monday when the Douglas kids were over, Diona decided to invite a few more friends over for some water play. So two kids from the French family came, three Mendez children and Matthew M.

We planned a whole water day for them! It started out with a water-balloon war... over 400 water balloons... boys against the girls... with "No Man's Land" separating them... Meagan couldn't help but get in on the action!

 

 

 

 

 

Then we had a water bucket war... and Meagan cheated with the garden hose!

Then we had a "throw the water balloon the farthest" competition... but with the BIG balloons...

Each balloon was filled according to the child's size...

 and we went youngest to oldest...

 Matthew D... Great toss, little man!!!

 

 Joey's balloon rolled quite a ways down the street and then finally popped... he was in the lead!

 Evie's also rolled and popped a few feet away...

 Isaac's pink balloon made a funny splat

 Kelsey... heave, ho!!!

 Zachary... the soccer players had to "throw in" their balloons over their heads

 James.. is that a triangle-shaped balloon??

 Kaitlyn... sssttttretccchhhh....

 Josiah's was the biggest... he got smart and used his head!

 

 Matthew M's balloon stretched down behind his back and burst open in mid air! SO COOL!!

 Collin... great form!

 Katie... her balloon also rolled down the street and popped... just shy of beating Joey!

 

The winner (Joey) was awarded 'first-served' at the "make-your-own-sundae" table.

 

 the second place winner...

 

 

 

 Matthew D. kept adding more and more to his sundae... it was almost over flowing!

 Then the big kids swam...

 and played chicken fight...

 and played four square...

and ended the day with some fresh-baked monkey bread...

And as each happy energetic child left with their parents a few hours later, they asked their exhausted hostess,  "Can we do this again, Mrs. Boyle?"  Her answer was, "Of course!! How about Wednesday?!"
So we did!!!