Lily's Waterland!

It may have rained almost nonstop during the two months that we were out of Maine this summer, but apparently we brought the sunshine and hot weather back with us because that's what it's been just about every day since we have been back! So as soon as we got back to our house and settled in we went straight to setting up a little personal waterland for Lily on our back porch. It's no secret that she is a total water bug. So we moved the patio furniture off the deck onto the lawn and pretty much devoted the whole porch to Lily's water adventures. We set up her pool, put her climber on the porch so that she could slide into the pool, set up her water table, and filled in the remaining areas with her various pool/water toys. We added an umbrella and camp chairs for us and presto we created a really fun water area for our little girl! Oh yeah, there's also a sprinkler in the yard and a slip n' slide (given to Lily for her birthday). And do you know what- it's been absolutly WONDERFUL! In fact for a week the first words out of her mouth upon waking in the morning and from her nap in the afternoon was always, "I want to play in my pool." We couldn't keep her out of it! And still, weeks later, she plays in it almost every day (if we are home)! And one of the best parts is that we didn't buy anything new- we just combined a bunch of things we already had to make this little area fun for her. Lily's own little waterland! I'm wondering what in the world we are going to do when it gets too cold to play in it!