Splish Splash

The kids were pretty disappointed when they looked out the window and saw rain yesterday since we were planning to go to the park that morning. But the disappointment didn't last long. We dressed them in their galoshes and rain coats, umbrellas in hand, and marched down the street for a puddle parade. Cousin Parker came along for the stroll. Parker is my sister Sue Ellen's son who is almost three. We don't get to see him often enough. I watched Parker yesterday and look forward to seeing him more frequently - hope his parents don't mind I dressed him in pink! And, we couldn't march by Nate's and Grant's without asking them to join in the fun. The kids found caterpillars galore on the sidewalk that they collected and observed, with surprisingly only a few casualties after all was said and done.


My biological mom, Pamela, was there to witness the splish splash surprise, and the caterpillars brought back one of her own memories of Sue Ellen when she was around Kenzie's age. Apparently, Suzy loved worms. They lived in the country and one afternoon Sue Ellen collected some in a bucket and brought to Pamela to show her, excitedly shouting, "Worms, Mama, Worms!" When Pamela looked inside, to her horror, she saw it wasn't worms Sue Ellen had plucked but a bucket full of tiny baby copperhead snakes! Amazingly, Suzy didn't get bitten.