oooh, water beads, my kids love playing with those :)
Man, I am SO jealous of your big, beautiful schefflera!!! I always wanted one that big! I had a small one that got to be medium sized (still small compared to yours) but it just looked terrible- like really spindly. So I hacked it down to a stump and it came back much better!!! But its back to small again. Boo!!!