Outside!

We have been spending so much time outside! The above photo was taken right after breakfast as you can see with Rose in her jammies.  Paige had already changed as she was worried about Scout biting her nightgown. The weather has been unbelievable the past 2 weeks.  This week the temperatures are about 30 most days...or "feels like" 30, as it always is over here with the humidity.

 There are a few things to do out back...the small slide, climb on the rocks, eat lunch, hide in the bushes, play at the mud making sink thing, bubbles, play with Scout, and the sandbox. If the girls play in the sandbox though I have to pull Scout out of it a million times.  We have a bucket of sand for Scout to dig in, but of course it's not filled with prohibited toys.

I'm not sure Scout is fully grasping the "peeing outside" thing.  I think a lot of it just happens as we are already out.  I bet if it was rainy for the past 2 weeks, we would have made better progress--letting her out to pee and then right back in...but then we would have gone stir crazy.  We basically have to spend most time outside or downstairs as Scout has no chance to make it to the back door when she's upstairs, and that is pretty demotivating for her.  She is up there in the evening though as she mainly sleeps on the floor after the girls have gone to bed.

Rose is so confident now that she lets herself out into the backyard and just starts playing all by herself.  She loves making "drinks" and "food" out of the sand for Mommy and Paige.  Ever since Paige's kindergarten concert at school, Rose has pretended to be on a stage on top of the big flat Rock in the yard, and yells out songs.  Then she takes a bow and says "thank you".  Too bad she wouldn't sit still for Paige's upcoming dance recital.  She would love to see all the costumes.  She is so so so much more into all that stuff than Paige.