More summer photos. Perhaps I’m just missing the good weather, but a lot of photos from the summer I originally thought were mediocre are looking really nice to me now. So here are the kids playing the sprinkler and keeping busy while we worked on the garden.

Nabby seems to have been born to swing into a sprinkler, she did it for at least an hour.

Oliver invents big spy-mission stories when he runs through the sprinkler. They involve volcanos and avoiding acid.

It’s not real sunny here, but the humidity helps keep you warm while you slowly dry off. Easier on your skin for sure.

This idea Oliver had to “swat away the bugs around the newly planted seeds” came from a game on the PBS kids Caillou site where you can plants seeds, water them, swat bugs away and watch them grow. We had already planted and watered so Oliver decided to get on with keeping bugs away and grabbed our fly swatter.

Nabby was busy finding worms and making them all comfortable in her bucket house with a bed made of leaves and blanket made of sand from the sand box.

When they dried up and stopped moving she asked if I thought they were cute when they were asleep. I said I did and mentioned they might get a little dry with just sand and that they might want some dirt, she said “no mom I know what to do” and poured a few cups of water in from the hose. Dried up… drowned… asleep… luckily it all looks the same.

One day I’ll learn when to just say yes and smile to what she says. Correction is so unnecessary when she’s three and there are 3 billion worms in the backyard. She was happy all the same in the end. She’s so cute when she cradles worms and bugs and talks to them in a sweet mothering tone.