Remnants of Hanna

It was quite the miserable day, weather-wise. But, a fun day despite the ugly weather.

Tropical Storm Hanna came through up here, and it poured almost the entire day. It reminded me of Hurricane Rita in Shreveport when Cran wasn't even a year old. I had to photograph Cran out in the "hurricane" years ago, and of course had to take pictures of Faith and Maddie out playing in 'Hanna' today. It was still ridiculously humid this morning so they played out in the pouring rain and puddles for a good while without me worrying about them catching a cold. They could live outside in the pouring rain if I would let them. They love splashing in puddles; but, then again, what kid doesn't love splashing in puddles?!

I'm going to have to look into getting them more fun board games that they can play together because they just love Hungry, Hungry Hippos. And, they play it together so well. Faith wants to play it non-stop. She's so funny because she likes to "cheat" and look under all of the hippo's mouths to try and snatch some marbles in to her pile. Maddie laughs when Faith does this and calls her a "sneaky cheater." Haha. Half the time they don't even let me play; Maddie tells me, "we're going to play together, ok Momma?" 

We made a huge cookie cake. I gave them each their own bowl of cookie dough that they helped make, and they "placed" their balls of dough onto the cookie sheet. Only they smooshed them all together basically, and I ended up spreading it all to make one big cookie. They thought it was cool though. 

Hide-and-seek is another favorite that they love to play these days. Maddie and Faith are of course a team. It's absolutely hilarious when I go to find them because Faith is always standing wherever Maddie is hiding and just covering her mouth and giggling. Or, she's standing there pointing saying "Da Da dis!" Hahaha. She's so funny. Maddie actually had a really good place today: she was squatting low in the shower. I wouldn't have even thought to look for her in there, but Faith was standing there in the bathroom giggling and pointing. Then I heard "shhh, Beebster!" and that combined gave her away!