COUSIN CAMP - Sea Surprise Day! July 17

This day started out really fun...Great Grammy came over and helped Hayden and Will decorate their sand pails and then filled them with water and started growing their sea creatures. Of course Swimmy and Spot watched everything with great interest. Then they made sand sculptures in little bottles. Then we went outside to have hermit crab races. Hayden picked which crab he thought would win and put down his "bet" of a quarter and before Will could bet - he promptly picked up Hayden's quarter off the concrete and put it in his mouth! We got that out before he choked and decided that all bets were off! Then Will decided to pull his own "see surprise" by picking up the largest and fastest hermit crab and sticking that inside his mouth!!!! We couldn't believe it - Katie & Hayden were screaming and crying and fortunately I was able to get the crab out of Will's mouth before he swallowed it and fortunately the crab didn't pinch onto Will's tongue or throat causing any other damage. We couldn't believe Will did that or was even able to do it with four adults right there - He is way too fast and now we know that truly "where there's a Will there's a way!"



Well, since we all needed something fun to calm some frayed nerves we decided to end the evening with a great meal at Sho-Gun,a Japanese restaurant that has a big aquarium and fixes your food in front of you with flames and flashy knives( I realize that doesn't sound exactly nerve relieving!). The kids loved it and Hayden was so inspired by the chef that he performed his own napkin dance and made Will roar with laughter.