Our Slip-N-Slide

 Due to the heat wave/drought, it has been extra hard to play outside this summer.  Who knew we could have so much fun with a tarp and a tiny kiddie pool!!?!?!  But, boy did we ever!!
Earlier in the summer I had spent $10 at Dollar General for a slip-n-slide that the kids used once.  It barley worked.  It was way too narrow and kept folding up, the water wouldn't stay on it so it wasn't slippery enough and it was way too short.  So down the drain went $10.  Great.  But, then when I started getting my food service tent out to set up my yard sale I also found my tarp!  So me and the boys drug it out, and dug around to find some tent stakes and we had our slip-n-slide.  Now, what to make it "slip"?  I thought of soap immediately but worried about them getting it in their eyes.  Then I thought Crisco.  hmmm.  Got on the internet real quick and found out other people had used baby shampoo! DUH!  So I sent Tristan and Cedric to Dollar General to get some generic baby shampoo.  Yes, I have some in the house but it is Arbonne baby shampoo and I am NOT dumping that on a tarp! haha!  They came back and we starting slipping and sailing away!  I did add a little Canola Oil actually and whooo-eee did that stuff slip!! LOL!  So much fun!  The downside is that it takes A LOT of baby shampoo.  We went through three bottles on this day alone.  But, so worth it.  We got way more fun out of the tarp the the actual slip-n-slide I had bought initially. 

 Liam had to show me his going under water skills and wanted me to document it all.
 So I obliged. 

 He flies like a bird while swimming!

 They started getting crazy in the pool!  Wrestling and monkeying around.  I hope they grow up to be great buddies like I catch them doing from time to time!

It was a great day!  And totally worth not getting much else done!! LOL!