Ballerinas

Yesterday, the kids and I took a long walk around the neighborhood. We stopped to listen to the highschool band practice (Audrey says she wants to play the tuba when she gets older) and were on our way home by the elementary school when the girls started splashing in some left over mud puddles on the sidewalk. If you know our children at all, you know that Audrey is NOT our mud-lover. Well, yesterday, she went through the puddles slowly, then started walking through ones in the grass that were ankle-deep, then started running through them, then accidentally fell in one. She looked shocked for a minute, then started laughing and then started running and sliding into them on purpose. She had mud from head to toe. Literally. Avery was a bit more cautious yesterday and, while happy to walk in them, did not want to be splashing in them. I told them we were going to come home and rinse off in the waterhose outside. As we were walking home, Iain called and said there was a tornado warning. So we started walking a bit faster. But Audrey knows that tornadoes are dangerous and she could not get home fast enough. She told us we needed to go straight to the basement (Iain has done drills with them =) ). So now I have two very muddy girls who need to go into the house. Fab! Thankfully we have a shower in the basement so they got bathed down there. But Audrey was still worried about the tornado, so she wanted Iain (who was now home) to go upstairs and bring her jammies down to her. Very cute. Anyway, we had a fun basement party, complete with eating dinner down there, spread out on a picnic sheet. Here's a video of the girls dancing after dinner (you can see that the jammies were discarded in favor of more appropriate dancing attire)!