Grace playing with trucks in the mud...or Yes girly girls like to get dirty too!

This afternoon the kids and I went outside to play in the mud. Well, not on purpose, but since our yard is pretty much mud for 98% of the year it no longer phases me. Especially now that Grace has a pair of practical rubber boots that hose off better then black ballet flats. The bonus is that she thinks they're cool even if they're navy blue without even a hint of polka dots or hearts.

Our wonderful neighbors gifted the kids with two big plastic trucks their kids had outgrown and so we had to try them out. Grace immediately got into the spirit of things and showed Ethan how to make them climb hills and roll down the driveway into the street. Well that part wasn't so great, but at least she didn't go chasing after it. I got them to bring their trucks over to the side of the house with the gravel and showed them the fun of filling plastic trucks with rocks and dumping them back out again. That fun lasted quite a while until Grace found a ladybug.

We had quite a few ladybugs in our yard last summer and Grace remembered exactly what to do with them. She held her fingers out for the ladybug who obliged by crawling onto her hand. Grace held very still and talked to her ladybug friend, who happened to be a girl named Caterpillar by the way, and even sang her a ladybug song about being red and having spots. It was very sweet. She eventually decided that the ladybug would like to ride in her green truck and then in Ethan's red truck. By that time I noticed that the ladybug wasn't looking so spry anymore so I told her that her ladybug friend was sick and needed to spend some time in our grass to feel better. Poor thing.