Rainy Day Lena

It's been raining here for the past couple days, which means we were once again house bound. Since Lena was feeling better, she actually enjoyed the rain. We haven't really had a lot of it, and when we did she must not have been paying much attention because this time she thought it was pretty cool. On Monday and Tuesday, she spent much of her time looking out the window, playing with dad's laptop, or pulling all the books from the shelves at Mrs. Nelson's toy and book shop (no picture, she was too quick for me). Finally, today, I took her to the mall to play on the rubberized climbing toys at the Metro Nissan Play area. Since we've been going to the park on Wednesdays, we hadn't been to the mall for a long time, but the sogginess of the park (it's not actively raining, but it's still wet) forced the play group to find a drier venue. The last time we played at the mall, she was still a little wobbly, and had a hard time with the stairs, but today was different. She spent most of her time pretending to drive the big yellow Xterra (or trying to push whoever else was pretending to drive out of the way). But she also liked the rubberized log slide and the rubberized rocks. She played equally with kids she knew, like Aidan and Seth, and kids she didn't know. She sat on every mommy's lap (whether their kids liked it or not) and screamed loud enough for all to know she was there and ready to be adored. Now, regardless of what Aidan's mom Melissa says, she did not get this from me. I have no idea where we got such an extrovert. But here she is in all her loud and pushy (literally in Aidan's case) glory. I could'n tbe prouder.