Last week my sister needed to get out of the house, so I told her to come on over. But with six kids between us, things were going to get real crazy unless we found something for them to do outside. So we started with the sprinklers.
I made sure to keep the sprinklers far enough away from the slide that it didn't create a giant mud puddle at the bottom of it.
But they kept getting muddier and muddier anyway.
Those sneaky kids! They built their own water slide water works by filling up some watering cans and enlisting the little ones to pour them out on the slide as the bigger ones rocketed down it into the sloppy mud pit at the bottom.
I was excited about the display of teamwork and ingenuity, but I kept picturing their muddy feet clomping through my already-struggling carpet. I decided to replace the mud with something equally squishy, yet cleaner and better-smelling.
I had three cans of Barbasol hiding under my bathroom sink. It was left over from last year's Puffy Moon Paintings.
I really should keep that stuff in stock. There are so many uses for it!
And it smells so good!
This is not a barbasol-sponsored post, but if they were up for it...
We made a rule that they could only put shaving cream on themselves. That way we could avoid (in theory) stinging eyes and mouthfuls of the stuff.
It was just a theory.
The littlest, Maddie (20 months) could not get enough of the stuff. She just kept rubbing and rubbing it all over her head and neck.
It got to the point where my sister Abby and I were following them around with cameras, trying to keep the cameras still while we busted up laughing like little girls.
I still can't hold it together when I see these of Maddie:
Dying!!
Sprinklers and Shaving Cream = how to make a bunch of kids happy and cool for 2+ hours in the Texas summer heat.
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Want to read how we made those puffy moon paintings last year? Find pictures and intructions here.
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