Toys in the Pond

   At our house we have a large attached deck adjacent to a fish pond. It's real pretty in spring and summer. That is, unless you have kids.
   I specifically recall one fun day last summer when the two older boys were playing out on the deck. I was busy doing something in the kitchen, but had the outside door open so I could hear anything major going on out there. Or so I thought.
  We've got a bunch of outdoor toys out there, but when I looked out the window, I saw a tricycle on its way over the railing, and almost into the pond. I was in shock. Everything was in the pond. Everything. We had a water table with water toys, sand buckets, shovels, a play grill, push toys, toy dump trucks, oh, and my personal favorite, a potty chair. It was all in the pond. All of it. I mean, what else can you say about that. As a parent it just kinda makes you speechless.

I love my boys. I love my boys.  So here's a picture of my son scaling the house: