Wet

It has been raining pretty steadily for three days now. Yes, the kids are experiencing cabin fever. I took a note from my girl June, called Anna, and sent the kids out into the rain to play. What fun! (Actually, Anna and I had the most fun.) Riley only lasted about ten minutes, but Shannon and Anna got out a bunch of blocks and wood and I showed them how to make a dam out of all the water flowing down the street.

The kids weren't able to restrict all of the water so I filled up about 40 water balloons to help fill the gaps. Then I threw them some sidewalk chalk and we made streams of green and yellow water. Anna decided to grab some gravel to plug up the dam a bit, and soon we had two interesting piles on either side of the storm drain. Then the torrents kicked in...

Shannon was done. Heavy rain started pouring down and the wind had kicked up, so he tore off for home yelling, "It's tooooo cold...." Anna gave me a look like Shannon was crazy and I said, "I guess you and I are having a water balloon fight?" That girl soaked me as I ran around dodging her, my useless umbrella in hand! Soon the balloons were gone and we gathered up our junk and headed in.

After nice warm baths and pancakes for lunch, we all moped around the house. Soon Riley was telling me that it was raining really hard again, so I looked out. The back yard was starting to flood again, and the water along the street was really high. "Who wants to drive through puddles and look at the lagoons?" I asked.

Riley and Shannon were up for it, and with a little convincing, Corey was too. We zipped through the neighborhood, watering everyone's lawns, driveways and mailboxes, with the kids screaming "More!" the whole time. We decided to check on the lagoons, and as we went to exit the neighborhood, we realized the main entrance was completely flooded. No problem, we snuck out the back way and found the lagoons about 1 foot shy of flooding over. The kids were in awe, and surprisingly quiet.

"More puddles?" I asked. "Yeah!!!" they screamed. We did another five laps or so and decided it was time to head home.

"Mom, you're a bucket-filler!" Shannon said when we got back into the house. (That means I do things to make people feel good.)

"Yeah, mom, that was AWESOME!" yelled Corey. "NOW can I play Shift 3 on the computer?"