mudliscious

Mud Play

by Mike Bayles

After the rain,

when water and dirt

make goo

this play delights.

What a sight

it is,

children covered in mud

and laughing

while splashing

in their imagination,

the ponds and lakes,

when cleanliness forsakes,

the delight they seek

until the sun

evaporates their dreams.

GymborCutie

Today was

definitely

a lazy Sunday

afternoon

complete with rain

and football

(all of daddy's teams won..and the whole house could breathe)

in between games,

we built an obstacle course for the cuties

they got into it

complete with a wall, slide, tunnel, and house 

to crawl over, up, down, through, and into 

we challenged them to see if they could go through it faster

Cutie Face challenged herself to see if she could do it backwards

she definitely also challenged herself

to see how high she could jump

again and again

don't worry, we stressed that this kind of activity

ONLY

happens when Mom and Dad sanction it

thankfully, the Cuties

wore themselves out pretty quickly

and made little cuddle islands out of the obstacle course

all in all,

a very well-spent afternoon!

Rainy Day shopping

J and I only own one car. {Well, we actually own two but the second one has been in the shop for...oh...a long time now and we really don't count it as our own car since my parents bought it for me and the twin when we were in college.}

Anyway.

When J is working on a local ATL project, he gets the car and Cutie Face and I get the awesome jogging stroller. We really don't need two cars because we can walk everywhere--3 grocery stores, Target and other stores, too many playgrounds and parks to count, etc.

We love being able to walk our neighborhood but we definitely feel a little stifled in our bitty apartment when it rains. Like it did ALLLLL DAY on Tuesday.

But, Cutie Face and I made the best of it and we headed to CVS, a mere tenth of a mile away, door-to-door. I let her out of the stroller and she completely enjoyed walking about and down all the aisles...especially when we came to their Christmas Toy Display (seriously? Christmas toys before Halloween?!?! yes.).

Here is my cute little Tomboy:

She really got into the truck (ha! "into"! Pun intended!) and it almost came home with us:

J finally came home and rescued us from the monotony err extreme fun err rain and we escaped to Whole Foods to return our rotten pumpkin (remember the saga from Tuesday's Tutorial?). Cutie Face was very glad to go shopping for pumpkins again!

Yay for no rain in the forecast...

...until Halloween...

bummer