whobody 'works' on the river?

Keaton is our little hard worker.

He has had a long week at school.  He usually just comes home and needs some decompression time in his room....playing with his "set ups" of train tracks, trucks, and animals.  But on river night, we made him change into his trunks right when he got off of the bus and we were on the road!

I'll admit, at first....he was pretty grumpy, emotional, and short with us.
This was the facial expression I got every time I took a picture. :)

He followed Jason around for a little while (isn't this a cute picture)

And then he found his 'place' at the sandbar. He found a swimming pool on an 'island' and he started working.  He spent the rest of the night at this place....digging digging digging.

Finally...he had opened the pool up to the rest of the river...he was very happy with himself. It was hard to tear him away from it!!!

On the way home, he was ALL smiles.  Here he was giggling at Lola's driving. :)

It will take him a few weeks to get used to being at school....we are just going to ride this 'emotional and cranky' phase out! As long as we keep on doing fun stuff like this (and giving him enough time in his room) he can't complain! What a good kid!