Mud

  It has been a long week.  The end of summer blows.  We have been running around doing late minute preparations, back in bed early, up early, and in back to school mode.

 Today I came home exhausted and looked at the bag of rocks the kids brought home from the beach.

Ahhhh.  The beach.

So I asked Dyleva if they wanted to work on the rock garden.  Surprisingly, they did. 

First they had so much fun yanking out the vines growing in the garden...they are strong!  Next, I started putting out the rocks.  Meanwhile..the niños got distracted. 

Next thing I know, Dylan is digging a river, and Eva is adding lots of wáter to the garden. 

They extract large amount of mud, and then began to massage it into their skin, and step in the mud mountain in their bare feet.

Really?

The were working together.  Teamwork.  They were excited.  They shared the tools and the watering can.  They had a plan and created this together....WITHOUT FIGHTING!!!

And they were having fun. 

Jeff walked by and looked at me, like, really?  But quite honestly they could have been doing anything and I was fine with it because they were friends.