Two girls and a bucket of water

The girls asked for a bucket of water and a few cups and bowls the other day.  They wanted to clean off their bikes.  When I went out to check on them it looked like their attention had quickly shifted from the bikes to them.  They were standing in the water bucket dumping cups of water on their heads just giggling and having the greatest time.  I just left them alone to play.  They were drenched within minutes but it was a hot day so I don't blame them-probably felt wonderful.  i love it when they play well together.

Cooling off

It hasn't been overly hot around here yet but it was pretty warm the other day-warm enough for the girls to take a dip in the sprinklers.  It went from washing their hands to fully soaked in just a matter of minutes. 

 Here the girls decided to wash off their shoes.  I had to put the axe down on drinking the water out of their shoes (always a dark cloud I am as the mom).

 And of course washing off their feet.

 Brailie was more willing to pose for the camera than Allie

 And of course what would a dip in the sprinklers be without washing off your bum.

The Beach

School started on Wed (Aug 24th) and the girls were a bit bummed that dad was for sure going to be gone all day.  I decided to take the girls out to the beach (a big sandy area by the river).  I felt like I should call and see if we could find any friends to go with us and it turned out perfect because there were friends that wanted to come and so the girls had lots of kids to play with.  At first we thought that we weren't in a good spot for them to play by the water so they were just playing in the sand but they really wanted to get wet and so as we started walking we found the perfect spot with just enough sand for kids and a perfect place to get wet.  My girls had a blast and didn't want to leave.  I for sure will be taking them back as many times as I can before the summer ends.

Elise, Byron and the girls in the sand.

Allie and Katelin

Katelin thought it was so fun to roll in the sand.  I bet her mom's car had much more sand in it when they got home than ours did.

Brailie is a good copy cat these days.

What a fun morning with friends. 

The Fair

 I try and take the girls on a walk almost daily and so it happened that we were walking by a vacant lot in town as they were setting up "the fair."  Allie was pretty excited about this and quite frustrated that it took them so long to get it set up (like 3 days).  She kept asking if she could go.  She would see the rides and decided that the one with the slide is the one she wanted to try.  Anyway we talked to Daddy and decided we would go down the day it opened and she could try a ride.  The day of came and we were out walking.  We were by the community center (my new place of employment by the way-YAY and BOOO) and we saw Nicholas and Sister Pace.  Allie told them we were going to go and see if the fair was ready.  Nicholas promptly informed us that is was not called a fair but a "Carnival" (sorry Nicholas but where I come from we call it a fair).  Anyway later I was talking to Allie about it and called it the carnival, she said, "you mean the fair," I told her we could call it a fair or a carnival.  She said, "mom, lets just call it the fair."  Well anyway, fair or carnival, we took Allie down.  Now it was overpriced, the workers were fairly scary looking and no adults could go on any of the kiddie rides (hello fair/carnival people-could you try and be a bit more family friendly-plus you would make more money if parents or older siblings could ride with the kids-I'm just sayin), but Allie was so excited that there was no stopping her.

She chose the car ride (she was not so sure once she got started and I think it went around 5 too many rotations, plus she had a come apart when the worker tried to help her down) but we were so proud of her for doing it.  Then she decided she wanted to try the one with the slide.  The plan was really good until she got to the top where she had to crawl through a tunnel and nearly had a nervous breakdown (probably in her genes-carnival rides and I have never been friends) and luckily a little hispanic boy came and helped her through.  After that she was fine and slid down the slide and played in the ball pit (which I am sure is never sanitized and was FILTHY I might add).  I just smiled and cheered for her being brave.  $6.00 well spent I think.  We conveniently couldn't go any of the other days and said we would watch for when the next one comes through.  Have I ever mentioned how she seems to be getting bigger and more mature by the day?