Today we decided that Stuart needed a day to rest, so I tried to occupy the kids on my own for most of the day.  This morning I had them out in the backyard while I tried to work on the garden.  The boys played with sand and water, then with water guns and spray bottle.  I wanted to move things around, the newly placed mulch to one area, then some small rocks to another area.  Connor volunteered to help me first, then Logan followed as well.  They had fun wearing the large work gloves and picked up the clean mulch into the bucket, then they especially loved carrying the bucket to dump them onto the open area.  They were so eager that I had to make sure they took turns.  When we moved onto picking up the small rocks, I stopped their use of the heavy buckets which finally ended their help to me.  They resumed their own playing while I continued to work some more.  We were out in the yard for at least an hour and a half before we returned inside the house to have our lunch.

    In the afternoon, I decided to take the boys to play at the swimming pool as it was hot.  Logan was fine with the idea but Connor wanted to stay home with Daddy until I offered him to bring a water gun.  After we arrived at the pool, I put sunscreen on the boys while they put it on my shoulders and back.  We had to start with a snack as usual on the lounge chair before we moved on to the pool side.  They both were happy sitting by the steps and playing with some pool toys while having their feet in the water.  Logan had made it clear that he did not want to go into the water, and I did not want to push either as I was on solo duty.  The boys had a lot of fun playing on their own.  Unfortunately 20 minutes later, there was an announcement to clear the pool for 30 minutes as they needed to clean up some contamination (bird poo).  We just hung out a bit longer at the lounge chair watching the action before we cleaned up to get home.