What Hailey's been getting into.

It has been raining for days and days and days and days. Days, I tell you. My kids were going crazy. Or maybe that was me. I don't know. We just had to get out of the house, is all. Someone in the house was going crazy.

So rain doesn't keep crazy people couped up for too long. Hailey got all dressed up for splashing...but first a photo opp...

...and another.
Then we headed for the puddles...
While Keelyn watched from a carrier. Her deal: No nap = Only happy when cuddling with Mommy. (I believe she was one of the ones going crazy, begging for outside time.) She did look mighty interested in puddle jumping, so maybe next time.
See? Doesn't it look fun?
And the jumping!

So, what else has Hailey been getting into, other than puddles she'd have never touched a few years ago, for fear of getting WET, and COLD, and YUCKY, and the WIND, and the RAINDROPS on my HAIR, and EEEWWWWWW!!!

We seem to have rounded a very pleasant corner into Copingville, where all things sensory have become at least moderately tolerable. In the past week, Hailey has (1) walked in Target without holding my hand on the tile floors!!!, (2) stayed in the bathroom while I blew out my hair, (3) helped Nana use the electric beaters to make cake, (4) climbed the ladder and went down the big kids slide all by herself over and over again with no help at all, AND (5) stood on the scale SOLO at the doctor's office. These things are HUGE for her (and she knows it!).

So, the perfect ending to a rainy weekend of roguish puddle jumping and other such incredible independent feats...cake in the living room! She's lovin' it!