Can You Dig It?

One of the more popular activities with the kids this year was digging in the sand. I was happy with this choice in activity because it did not require me to chase anyone up and down the beach. On the first day of vacation, Uncle Bobby and Aunt Kay gave all six of the kids a shovel and pail with their names on it. The kids played with these buckets more than anything else, and putting the names on the pails was a stroke of sheer genius because there was never any argument over whose pail was whose. The kids played so well together on the beach. They dug holes, built sandcastles, and buried Bailey a couple of times. The fun-in-the-sand continued all week long. On the last day at the beach, Uncle Kelly half-way buried the girls in sand by creating a mermaid tail for them. We decorated the mermaid tails with seashells. All of the girls loved channeling their inner Ariel. Of course, Owen wanted to be a merman, so we made a trident out of sand to make his merman more manly. Poor boy, he's always surrounded by girls.