Moon sand

Or Move Sand, as Dinoguy calls it, is an interesting toy where you get perfectly moldable sand that never dries out and a cute little floaty to "contain" it. Yeah. Right. There was sand everywhere, especially when we tried to "share" it when playing. Really this is a 1 person toy, but it was fascinating to play with and a great present Trainboy got for his b-day a while back and then I hid since we were about to move, and I didn't want to deal with it.

It does present a storage problem to some extent, the floaty container is currently just sitting on a high closet shelf, b/c the containers it came in were not reusable and I had no idea what to do with it.

This was our first activity in a lovely long Sunday afternoon of game playing. Last Sunday of course, b/c I procrastinated scanning in the Chuck E Cheese pictures for a week and a half so I have a back log of things I want to blog about and not enough time to do it all at once, so the back long continues.

Note the difference in the background between the two photos. The first one is framed so you can't see the messy cart or the disarray on the shelves, but sadly, I like the second photo better for the kids faces, even though it shows that my kitchen is not clean. Oh well. Life happens right? :)

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun we have had with the moon sand - building a castle and then destroying it and then repeating. The boys really enjoyed it, at least, they did once we started taking turns, alternating between that and making patterns with the connect 4 board. (Which we have yet to actually play according to the actual "rules". There are just too many other fun ways to play with it!)

Lastly, another picture of Sarge, who wasn't sure what I was doing with the camera and tried to shake paws with me when I took his picture too, when he barked at me for taking the kids picture. It's a pretty good picture though he looks worried in it, I guess the flash freaked him out?