Drip Drip Drop! Hop!

For the first time in months, we finally had a rainy day.  I'm not one to really enjoy the rain, but after several months of over 90 degree heat, seeing that cloudy sky and pouring rain was awesome!

As Dimples and I watched it pour from the window, I realized she may not remember experiencing rain since it had been SO long.  So I got out my fun polka-dot umbrella, which was a fun thing for her to see in itself, and we headed out side.

We stomped in a puddle or two, and walked down to the sidewalk where she could see the water running in the gutters.  We spun the umbrella and watched the colors blur.  We listened to the rain when the umbrella was up and when we put it down.  We sang "Rain Rain Go Away".

It was not that long before we were a bit damp and getting chilly so I decided to head in, much to her chagrin.  I think she would have play outside in the rain all day no matter if her teeth were chattering from cold.

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Another day during the week, there was perfect weather to play outside.  So she started out by using her sidewalk chalk.   Let me tell you, this girl loves her chalk.  It's been a big hit this summer.  Besides coloring with them, she stands them up on their ends (when they are new), she counts them, she sorts them and puts them in a bucket and then dumps them out.

But after she was done coloring her masterpiece, she came out to play in the yard.  She was roaming around, probably picking the dandelions that won't go away in our grass.  I was actually deflating the inflatable kids pool when I saw something hop.  At first I thought it was a grasshopper, but I looked and it was a little bitty frog!  So I called Dimples over to show her.  She smiled and then decided to follow it around saying "hop, hop!" while trying to jump herself.

What a fun surprise. :)