Sweet Summertime

Last Thursday, we had ourselves a fabulous, spur-of-the-moment, get-soaked-with-clothes-on, summer afternoon.

Like most of our spontaneous, messy, who-cares-about-the-aftermath activities, this one occurred due to the fact that we just could no longer remain in our house...there were tears and attitudes in abundance...

So, I, as patiently as I could, declared our need to get on shoes and head on outside! We gathered chalk, bubbles, squirt bottle with water, and loads of just stuff, anything I thought would be fun to play with outside with water, without getting our sprinkler/pool out because it was almost time to get dinner started.  Our :( afternoon, quickly turned into a :D afternoon for all!!

Playing with paintbrushes and bubbles.

Practicing pouring...hopefully sooner rather than later
this will transfer over to other
liquids being poured into other containers
(i.e. milk into cup, milk into cereal bowl),
that could be helpful.

The setup.

He's so cute... especially when outside concentrating
on how to make the biggest splash in a mixing bowl
with a paintbrush,
as opposed to indoors,
concentrating on the most successful whine
for mommy to hold him... 

My sister is awesome, I love her...

And now it gets really fun, and really wet!

More pouring...

with toy sorting.

Squirting water into penguin shaped ice cube trays.

Getting messy and creative is one of the few, tried and true, solutions to grumpy, cranky, whiny kids (if they aren't sick, hungry, or tired that is), so I'll continue to share with you all the future, I-am-going-to-go-insane-so-we-need-to-do-something-drastic activities, because I'm sure there's bound to be a couple (100) of these days left ahead of me! I LOVE this time in my life, and I LOVE them!! Yay summer...yay water!! 

Do you think I may have a small obsession with hyphens today?!?! Geesh, where did those come from??