We celebrated Earth Day today by enjoying God's beautiful creation. We took the kids to Lake Miona for some fun in the sun and the dirty lake water. Funny thing, the kids liked walking in the water in the section that is roped off for swimming. We didn't think anything about it other than it was nasty. So maybe an hour or so after they had already been playing in the water we noticed a sign that said the Sumter County Health Department doesn't recommend swimming in the lake. The kids didn't swim in the water - they really only went to their knees or so. Needless to say ever since we've been praying a hedge of protection over the kids. If you look at the picture below with Jake & Caroline you'll see the sign in the background. How did we miss that??
Josie & Jake came to and the kids had a blast catching baby catfish and digging in the dirt. Jake would squeal everytime he tried to pick up a baby catfish, he wanted to touch it so bad but just couldn't make himself do it. The others had no problem grabbing those fish and slinging them all over the place.
Cooper got his first chance to play in the sand. He loved it and was such a good baby. He even took a little nap in his stroller while we packed up. What baby does that? None of my other children, that's for sure!
The kids got a good scrub down when we got home to wash off any of that nasty lake water and now they are snoozing! What a great Earth God has made, we thoroughly enjoyed His creation today!
6 comments:
Sounds like a great day! I'll pray the bugs away also. Love the pics. I can't believe how big Cooper is.......your kids are adorable.
That is so funny about the no swimming sign. That lake makes me cringe when I think about going into it! When I first starting reading the post the first thing I thought was, "oh I hope they did not go in the water!!!" LOL I hope you were able to get all the yuck off of them!!(-:
They loved playing in the sand, getting all dirty! Little did we know how dirty they were really getting in that stank water :) Oh well, whatta ya do, right? I'm sure the sign was just about the ameobas.....what else could it be with such crystal clear water?
The kids will be fine.. I went sking in the lake last year and drank way to much of that scary water.... Although I do have a mysterious sixth toe on one foot now :)
what a funny post! at least the water isn't super warm and swarming with amoebas yet! the kids should be safe! :)
I haven't been in Lake Miona since I was 10. EEEEEWWWWWWWW! They looked like they had a blast!
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