I turned my turtle sandbox into a water table too, the kids just love it : ) I am big on a good amount of outside time too. We stay inside maybe twice a year and it is usually because it is too cold with an extream wind chill. Our summers are not nearly as hot as those with 110 or higher....yikes. We have been close to 100 for the past few weeks and it has been nice but the UV index is so high in the afternoon you really can feel your skin burning. I usually have the kids outside for about 3 hours in the morning and then maybe 1/2 hour in the afternoon in the shade. My kids would go insane if I kept them in from Oct to march that just seems crazy to me!!!

Reply