Sprinklers and Sun

Last week was gorgeous! Most of the days were sunny and warm and all the trees here in Charlottesville are starting to bloom. If you've never seen Charlottesville in the spring, you are missing out. It is beautiful!

On day last week, our friend Jamie got out the hose and let the kiddos play in the sprinklers. It was interesting to watch the kids and see how they each decided to play with the water.

Lance liked to squirt anything and everything he could, including his little brother.

Jude preferred to be on the sidelines. He wasn't that impressed with the squirting...

...but did venture toward the water before he lost his nerve and decided to play it safe over by the moms in the background.

Lance, however, continued to find new ways wreck havoc with the hose. Mud, anyone?

The girls didn't care too much for the water, either, and had a good time playing Barbie, safely elevated on the cement away from the ever-expanding amount of mud Lance was making.

 

The mud must be a boy thing. Lance and Killian filled this plastic tub up with water and dirt and then proceeded to dump the muddy contents all over the parking lot.

Some of the kiddos... Jude was saying "cheese!" I love that Lance is the only one that's dirty in this picture.

The closest we got to a picture with all the kids looking up. What a cute group!

After the sprinklers, some of us got together and had a potluck dinner of Mexican food. Super yum!

The kids lost interest in the food and found fun things to do--like play in the dirt.

Lance got in trouble (I can't remember what he was doing), so he had to sit in time-out for a bit on our little white bench.

At first he was sad...

Then mad.

Oh yeah... he was playing in the ashes from the barbecue pit and didn't stop when we asked. That's the gray all over his face and shirt.

Jude decided to join him.

I love that they're making the same face here.

Love, love. Jude doesn't look too pleased at being kissed by such a sooty, muddy brother.

Lance finished the night by playing water guns with his buddies Killian and Jabrien. It didn't help with the dirt at all.

Jude has become a monkey lately and climbs all over everything. BOYS!

It was a fun time! Bath time that night was interesting and left a huge ring around the tub of nasty grayish-brown gook. Just another day in paradise!