When it Rains....

...the kids at our house take off their shoes and run in it!

You probably thought I was going to finish with "....it pours,"  but while it's true that it has been pouring a lot lately (literally and figuratively), it's also true that my kids have no aversion to getting soaking wet with their clothes on.  In fact, I daresay they think it's way more fun to play in the rain than taking a boring old shower.

Usually it's too dark, or too cold, or too thundery to take advantage of torrents of rain, but tonight it was perfect and they were not about to let a sorry old rainstorm dampen their enthusiasm to play outside.

It started off with just Emma...

and backward shirted Ellie...

both of whom were soaked to the bone in no time. 

But it wasn't too long before their giggles and happy screams drew Cami and Adam out the door to pull weeds, of which we have plenty. 

 

Of course they weren't pulling weeds to make our flowerbed look nicer, but they were merely using the weeds and clumps of wet dirt sticking to their roots as a base for their dam.  Yes my kids like dams as much as I do....except whenever I tried to call it a dam, they told me I had a potty mouth and insisted that it was actually a "darn."  (serves me right for showing them that comic a few weeks ago)

In the process of their dam darn building, they came across a little tiny cricket...

which Adam decided was too cute not to pick up and admire...

and then place as his first passenger in his tin foil boat...

Adam ensured that it was a five-star gutter cruise for his little cricket buddy.

At least that is until the boat crashed into a weed growing out of the neighbor's curb that had created a boat killing little vortex and mini dam.

Randomly the kids didn't call me a potty mouth when I called that one a (damn) dam.


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