Cold, Rainy Day Fun

About a month ago, while we were at Gymnastics, Kaiya had a very hard day. She got scared while rolling backwards over a giant foam barrel thing, and just cried and cried. Her teacher (who I love) held her and encouraged her to do other stuff, but she just psyched herself out and had a terrible time coming back from it. Towards the end of class, she did try again, and I was so proud of her, because you could see she was still pretty upset.

Well, after that tough morning, we decided that the perfect thing for us to do would be to go over to our good friend Ben's house and try out Kaiya's new pink rain boots. Ben is one of Kaiya's favorite friends, and the most wonderful thing about them together, is that the are always so nice to each other! It is like they bring out the best in each other (besides an incident with a black marker, but that is another story).

So Ben & Kaiya played outside together in the FREEZING rain and had a ball. They got out the lawn mowers and ran like the wind down the sidewalk and crashed into each other.


Over & over & over again.


Eventually they came into the garage where Tara & I were sitting & watching them. Tara even got out a heating pad for their poor freezing fingers.

As always Kaiya had a wonderful time playing with her friend.


Right after this picture was taken, Kaiya layed down in the water that was streaming down by the sidewalk, and got completely soaked from head to toe, and it was time to go home. She was so cold when we got home that I stripped her wet clothes off & swaddled her in a big quilt, just like when she was a baby. She thought it was hilarious when I told her she was a "baby burrito" and didn't want to take it off.

What a great way to make a sad day happy again!