PJs & Umbrellas

This morning while Kara was taking her shower I took the children downstairs to eat breakfast before getting dressed for church. As we walked by the front door I noticed it was raining softly outside. It was perfect weather to take a walk down the driveway with umbrellas to collect the Sunday newspaper. Young children love umbrellas, right? I dashed back upstairs to locate the umbrellas. We had two stashed in our travel box. Mark had to go out to his car to collect a third one.

Next I had to convince the children that it was okay to wear their pajamas outside for a short time while they walked down the driveway. If you can't run around your own yard in your pajamas when you're three and four years old, when can you?! Live a little!

Then I almost blew the deal by putting their water shoes on them instead of their tennis shoes. Water shoes make more sense in the rain, but, unfortunately theirs weren't dry from their last pool playtime on Friday. Viva didn't care, but Jake and Bentley protested loudly. "They're cold!" Wimps.

Finally, I got them out the door and headed down the driveway. At that point Bentley noticed there was no newspaper at the end of the driveway. Matt had collected it on his way to morning church meetings because more often than not when it rains, the paper gets drenched.

So the umbrella caper ended abruptly with no treasure collected. I had bribed the boys with the promise of a treat which they couldn't earn. Some days are like that.

I'm not sure why there is no photo of Viva, she was the first ready to go. The Bentley photo was taken after he discovered the theft of the treasure.




After my above complaint about no photo of Viva, Mark surrendered this one that he took, but did not like well enough to include in the original batch of photos he gave me. It seems that though Viva was first out the door, she never left the porch.