The Serendipitous Sandbox

Last week while visiting his friend Nicholas, Carson learned that playing in the sand in Nicholas' sandbox was tons of fun. As the weekend approached I kept thinking that I should try to set up a temporary sandbox at our house for Carson (Grandad is planning to build a big one for Carson, but that will be a bit longer in the making). So, I started looking on craigs list for used sandboxes and also considered spending some Toys R Us gift card money on a sandbox purchase.

On Saturday afternoon B.J., Carson and I headed out for a walk around the neighborhood. At one of the first houses we pass, the family was out in the driveway and they all waved to us and shouted "Do you have a sandbox?" Surprised, B.J. and I looked at each other and laughed and replied, "no, but we were just discussing getting one this morning!" The family had a 9 year old son who was pleased that Carson would enjoy his sandbox. They cleaned the old sand out and we loaded it into our car and brought it home. All set up on the back deck the ship sandbox is great! Now we are working on learning that sand is not so delicious to eat!