Spring fun!

Flying a kite and rain puddles...sounds like spring to me!  Ainsley has discovered kites this year and, well, we all know, she discovered puddles a few years ago!  We have nowhere to fly a kite at our house.  I suppose we could always go over to the baseball field, but there's no way I'm stepping foot on that with all the drama surrounding it!  Luckily, all the grandparents have plenty of kite-flying skies.  Ainsley had fun flying a kite with Uncle Tanner one weekend at Grandpa Bill's.

I have to say, it was pretty entertaining watching them.  Tanner wasn't exactly the best at flying a kite at first, and we got to witness both Tanner and Dad running when Ainsley let go of the string and the kite went flying over the house, with the string dangling behind it! 

Lily was pretty easy to please.  She watched all the commotion, and had fun picking dandelions.

Once our cheap Walmart kite stopped flying good, Ainsley found a BIG mud puddle.  We only have small water puddles that accumulate in front of our house, but this was a very deep mud puddle.  She went to step in it and was immediately scared, because she wasn't expecting it to be so deep.  She thought the smaller one beside it was more fun.  Uncle Tanner decided to get in the deep puddle.  Tanner kept asking Ainsley if she wanted him to jump in the puddles with her, and Ainsley enthusiastically replied with "YES!"  She wasn't expecting what happened next. 

Uncle Tanner jumped in the puddle, and she didn't know what to do!  This video says it all!  The poor girl was so upset because she was all wet and muddy!

It didn't take her long to laugh about it and get right back in the puddles. 

She went straight to Grandpa Bill's bathtub when it was time to go in!

The girls have been playing outside quite a bit lately, but not as much as they both would like.  Ainsley's constantly asking me to go outside.  Ainsley and Hadlee had fun playing outside with Joel and Lou one evening.  Ainsley sure loves her friend "Hadwee", and Lily discovered Holden, and absolutely loves him.

Lily is scared to death of baby swings....she only lasted a few seconds.

We've made it to the park a few times this year, but it would be twice a day, every day, if it were up to Ainsley.  It's so funny how the girls are so different.  Ainsley has always loved the park, swings, slides, etc. and Lily is scared of all of them.  There are toys that are Lily's favorites that Ainsley didn't even look at when she was that age, and Ainsley's favorites don't matter to Lily.

Morning snack at the park