Puddle Jumping

Ainsley was scheduled to go to Lisa's yesterday, but Lisa woke up sick.  That meant Ainsley stayed home with Mommy, which turned out to be a pretty good day.  It was so nice outside, in the 60's, so after her nap, we took a walk to the post office and then came back home to have some fun in the puddles in front of the house. 

We haven't been able to go on a walk for a few months now because of the weather, and Ainsley loved it.  She waved to everyone we saw.  If she even heard a vehicle in the area, she would look all around until she found it so she could wave.  She also had to point all kinds of things out on our walk...a "big" truck, car, grass, and of course she found a clock.  She thought her speedometer on her car looked like a clock. 

In case I haven't mentioned lately, Ainsley loves clocks!  It can be the smallest clock, that I would never have even paid attention to, and she'll point it out and say "clock", "tick tock tick tock". 

She couldn't understand why I wouldn't get the slide out of the garage for her to play with, but finally settled on a ball and her Cozy Coupe for a while.

Then, we went out to the puddles.  Boy, oh boy, did she have a blast!  At first, she wasn't so sure about it and would barely jump.  She then figured out she would stick her hands in the water and splash, but of course, she didn't like it on her hands at first.  Here's a video of her dipping her hands in the water.

She would close her eyes at first when jumping!

Check out that face!

After a little while, she really started jumping and decided it was pretty fun!  Here's a video of her jumping.

She then figured out she would pick up rocks and throw them in the water, (video here) which led to getting her hands as dirty as she could by grabbing handfuls of mud!  In the earlier video, you can see her pick up rocks and she laughs when she throws them in.  She thought it was funny!  Here's a video of her playing in the mud.

Of course, she got water/mud on her face from jumping in the puddles, which led to her trying to get the water off of her face with her muddy hands.  That led to a muddy face!  She didn't care, though.

After playing outside for almost two hours, she was wore out and finally just sat down on the curb to take a break.  She had to show me where the sun, clouds, and trees were.

I finally got her to go inside, where we immediately got in the bath tub.  She didn't understand why I took her clothes off in the garage, and why her rubber boots weren't coming in the house with us!  She left a pretty good dirt ring in the bathtub yesterday afternoon.  I can't wait for more adventures with my little girl!