Splashin...

I almost cried this morning because it rained. Oh how I love the rain...especially after two months of temperatures over 100 degrees. It actually hadn't started raining when we went on our walk but when we were a couple blocks from home, the torrential downpour began. We were stuck under a tree that wasn't providing nearly enough shelter. An older lady took pity on us and opened her garage for us to get dry and wait for the rain to stop. We were soaked!

Point is, I like the rain. When it's not raining however, we have to go find our own relief from the heat. Swimming, as I mentioned earlier, isn't a great alternative anymore because of the babies desire to move around. We decided to try out a local splash park this past weekend to see how they would like that.

We took our large shade canopy which was a lifesaver because there was no shade at the park otherwise. All our pictures are from the smaller fountains, of course, but there were some bigger fountains as well. The park wasn't too crowded...just a few kids running around. So we were happy to get wet and let the babies crawl around.






As you can imagine, Zachary LOVED it. He was drenched and had water in his nose and eyes. He would crawl around and splash in the puddles. He was having the time of his life.


Caleb was equally impressed with the water spouting out of the ground.


Although he was having a good time in the water, Caleb discovered the strings on his pants and sucked on those for the remainder of our time there. He loves strings. It's so weird.


Leah, on the other hand, was totally over it. She didn't like the way the ground felt so that limited her crawling. She wouldn't wear her glasses so the sun was bothering her and she does NOT like water being splashed in her face and eyes. So she took off and watched over the shade canopy for us. Just sucked on some toys and watched her crazy brothers. Again, anything with the slightest bit of risk or excitement is not for her.


We had a great time and everyone lasted about 45 minutes. Pretty good! We'll definitely have to try it out again before the parks close on Labor day.

So here's my funny stranger encounter of the week:

I was at Babies R Us buying a glowing sea horse for Leah's crib (she's having comfort issues lately and cries when we leave the room) and I ran into a nice couple from another country who had a one year old of their own. We chatted for a second and then all the sudden the mom puts her baby in my cart. She was laughing and loving that her baby was partying with us. Her husband was majorly concerned about my thoughts on the matter and kept asking if I was fine with the situation. I assured him that it was fine thinking that they'd take their baby out at any moment....

but they didn't.

They just kept marveling at the fact that their baby was standing with other babies and how cute it was. Caleb gets annoyed with others get up in his personal space so he started to get flustered and I said we should probably get going. That's when the Dad finally took their baby out and we parted ways.

Just so funny. That was definitely a first. I mean, it's quite the party going on in our cart but I'm not sure there is room for anymore. :)

Next up...birthday posts!