August Rain

It rained the whole month of August!  

...so we tried to make the best of it!  Here is the kids ready to play in the puddles.

 We have a city drain at the back of our neighborhood so we headed there & found a nice giant puddle.  It was too deep to splash in though so it wasn't the kids' favorite one as I thought it might have been.

 We went to a baseball game & had fun until we got rained out in the 7th inning.  We tried to go two other nights, but both times the game got canceled due to rain.

 One good thing about rain, is that it makes for cool morning & active animals at the zoo!  My cousin Chloe came to visit my mom & so we took her around town.  Whitney adored her.

 Tommy got a new Jake pirate shirt & decided to be a pirate this day.

 Tucker has MASTERED this super CHEESY smile!!!

 You see those crazy excited wild kids at the zoo... yup, they're mine :)

 Whitney got the merry-go-round all to herself!

 Tommy was sure he wanted to go on the "octopus" & I told him it was too scary, but he still wanted to do it.  Here he is smiling at first, Two seconds later when he went up, it terrified him & screamed to get off!

 This tiny little train was just right for him. He loved it.

 In the afternoon we went to the "Legend of Oz" movie.  The kids did surprisingly really good. (except Tucker of course... we needed non-stop snacks to keep him settled.)