sand castles and splinters

We celebrated the warm weather today and played in our back yard for the first time in forever!

I walked out to find Savannah covered in mud and sand building castles.  I love that she doesn't mind getting dirty.  It was going well for a while... 

 And then not so good.  Two GIANT splinters in Savannah's foot!  You can't tell from the picture but they were all the way in her foot.  And huge. 

She wouldn't let me mess with them and I didn't want to make them worse, so I was going to take her to the doctor.  I took these while we were waiting for our appointment.  

They hurt her really bad but as always, she was super brave. 

My dad ended up coming over with some super power tweezers and getting them both out while I pinned her to the couch.  It was intense!  But she's all okay now.  Maybe this will be what we needed to convince her to wear shoes now!