This is what I found.
Me: What are you guys doing?
Sweetpea: We're pretending that it's summer.
Me: What are all the pots of water for?
Sweetpea: They're swimming pools for our ponies!
Me: Oooooh, of course!
Sweetpea: Mama, how many more days till summer?
Me: Hopefully the snow will be gone by the end of April.
Sweetpea: Oh good! Yay!
It's a good thing she is 5 and really has no concept of how long it will be until the end of April.
I left them to their fun, the water bought me 30 mins of peace and quiet! :) After all, they did have the sense to put a towel down. I was impressed!
I've heard from people that have lived here their entire lives that they have seen snow in every month of the year. A friend said it snowed the day after her wedding. Which was in.........JULY!
Hopefully I will never ever ever see that.
3 out of the 4 years we've lived here there has been a snowstorm at the end of May. Isn't that lovely?
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That is the cutest thing ever! I remember making pools out of pots for my ponies too! ;)
ReplyDeleteToo cute! It makes me feel silly complaining about Michigan winters =)
ReplyDeleteSmart, smart, smart kids!
ReplyDeleteHa, water noises make me nervous!
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I am very impressed that they are playing together so nicely. My girls would think up something like that and then the boys would come and destroy the whole setup.
ReplyDeleteI know that it is nothing like you are having, but we have had soooo much snow in New Enland this year. They sent a bulldozer down our street this week because the regular snow plows weren't doing the trick. Now everyone literally has 6 foot high piles of snow the whole width of their front yards. Ughhhh!
Ahh... I love snow. Good thing too, cause I live above the Arctic Circle. Our snow doesn't melt until mid-June and comes back in about September. But the summer between is magnificent! (and well, there are always mid-winter trips to Hawaii!)
ReplyDeleteSnow in July? I can't. Possibly. Ever. I hope it never happens to you. You do not deserve that. Even way south in Michigan, the winter is too much this year.
ReplyDeleteOn a happy note, how precious that the kiddos made swimming pools for the animals. My 3-y-o has been yearning for the beach and would have loved to join in playing pool!
My first thought when I saw the picture was "Wow! They actually put down a towel!" I can't imagine my kids thinking to do that.
ReplyDeleteMy kids were doing this just the other day! (minus the towel....that came after the first spill!)
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI used to live in Newfoundland which is just completely different altogether in terms in weather. I can remember one year, it snowed on Canada Day, when the Queen came to visit and my husband (then boyfriend) had to fire a cannon on Signal Hill in honor of her visit. He was pretty toasty warm in his full regimental gear of boiled Melton wool I tell ya. I can also remember a Canada Day in Ottawa where we are now when it was -11 and we walked Parliament Hill in shorts on. Red, white AND blue!
(My kids do the same thing with the water - on, off, on, off - but if it buys me time in the studio, so be it.)