Nesting

Have you ever nested?  Oh my, when I nest I really nest.  I mean really.  With Tristan and Piper it was all focused on organizing (and reorganizing) their clothes, rooms and my pantry.  This time around, all I can think about it making our backyard a little more kid friendly so that when Baby gets here, the kids want to be contained in the backyard.  Pinterest doesn't help my nesting obsessions either.  So with that warning in place, the next few blog posts will be about my nesting projects.

This week is the water tub!  I wanted to make a few things with just what we had around the house.  I found this awesome water tub DIY tutorial on Pinterest and well, I built it.  Actually John showed me how to use his saw and nail gun (ummm, FUN).  Then we had an old 55 Liter tub in the garage and I filled it with these amazing water beads that I bought (all of them for $3.47 on amazon.com.  The kids can't get enough of it!  I kind of want to fill the bath tub with them, they feel so fun!

I used some 2x2 cedar boards I had left over from a super failed Christmas gift for my mom

Added the tub

Piper was perfectly content to play in the box (I won't lie, it was fun to keep her so contained)

Then she realized she could get naked (a favorite pastime) and fill it with water, she thought this was amazing.

Over night I soaked all of the beads (this is only part of them, but this small amount made a full 5 quarts of beads)

It's hard to tell in this image but there is at least 10 gallons of beads in there!

 Then we dumped all of the beads in the bin and let the kids go to town, they pretty much think we are the coolest parents ever.  I'll admit, I had to remind myself that we could clean up when they were done (I had to remind myself of this at least 214 times)  But the LOVE it!  

Nesting Project #1 a success!