The sandbox

Nearly 3 years ago, I bought this sandbox at a yard sale. The crane is broken, but Vance has started to take a liking to it. He sits on the edge and scoops the dirt into buckets and the tractor. It just happens to be that the neighbor's gravel company had a new dump of sand near our big dirt pile. . . So I took their small buckets back and forth about 20 times and filled up the sandbox (on top of the dirt and gravel that was in there). Vance played for nearly 2 hours in the sand and dirt. Then went to bed at 6:30pm and slept 12 1/2 hours. Of course, Zoie also wanted to play. We learned the hard way that sand doesn't go in the mouth -- but a big kid cup of water to swish around and spit out was the fun part of the game.