Costa Rica: Fun with Buckets

 Tori and the kids (and Grandma Linda) have now been in Costa Rica for about five days and I've been able to talk with Tori almost every day.  The kids are usually asleep by the time I talk with her, so today was neat because it was the first time I was able to Skype with the kids and talk to them.  It was especially cute to see Charlie laughing and smiling at me -- I'm glad he hasn't forgotten me yet!

I know that there are definitely some struggles in adapting to their new life in Costa Rica -- sleep schedules, heat, living conditions, and lots of mosquitoes -- but the real bright spot has been the beach.  Tori says the waves are perfect and the shore is really shallow, so the kids can walk out pretty far and still be safe.  They basically try to spend all day every day at the beach and I know they've even had some fun night swims.

In addition to the beach, Linda had the idea to buy some buckets and fill them with water for Charlie to play in. Apparently that has been pure joy for Charlie and he can sit in the bucket of water and then get out and then sit back in for hours upon hours.  And, according to this picture, it looks like Skip and Zadie are taking a cue from Charlie and cooling off in buckets, too.

It makes me happy to see the kids having good, clean fun!