Fun in the sand....box

Mallina is a digger. She would dig in the rocks in front of our apartment with one of my kitchen spoons. She was completely occupied for hours. Now that we have a yard at our disposal I really wanted to get her a sandbox and Grandma and Grandpa obliged. THANKS! Ieli and my dad built this for them and they LOVE it. Ieli spent some time playing in the sand box the other day with the girls and my nephew Jaxson (who is also here visiting Grandma and Grandpa from Texas).

Mallina the mermaid

Jaxson winning his kayak race

Mallina about to be buried for her kayak race

The shovel was a little large for Mallina


So we tried the small shovel instead. She doesn't look quite as excited.

And now for the sand castle. If you take someone who grew up on an island and ask them to make a sand castle, they make a sand castle. It was pretty funny...the whole time Jaxson kept talking about destroying the thing and it made Ieli nervous. He didn't want anyone messing with the thing until it was perfect.

The crew...excuse the fat mexican in the sand box.....hahahahaha!

What's gonna work? Team work!


THE Castle, upclose


You can see the outside "fence" that went all around it in this shot


And finally the destruction...Ieli threw Eva on the top first


Then Mallina joined in


And finally Jaxson got to destroy it too. I think that was his favorite part.



And just a really cute picture of the cousins. I put Cinderella on the tv on our room when I was going to go take a shower. Jaxson was nice enough to sit and watch it with them. He totally wasn't in to watching Cinderella. At. All. :)