A Michigan Spring Day

We were just finishing up supper a few days ago when it started to hail outside. Samuel and Hope were fascinated by the "balls" that were falling out of the sky. When it had stopped we took the kids outside to "play" with the hail. Samuel had a blast shoveling it off of the deck. Hope just liked picking it up and commenting on how cold it was. Samuel had so much fun with it that the next day he asked to play with "more balls!" It had rained hard enough through the day that there were also some good puddles in our driveway. Samuel and Hope were having a lot of fun splashing in the puddles. Hope actually fell in the big puddle at the end of our driveway and was soaked by the time that we went inside for baths. The next day Hope wanted to wear her rain boots again to play outside. She put them on and said "it's wet!!" And she was right, they were still wet from splashing/falling in the puddles the night before. This was also the night that the tornado sirens went off about 10 minutes late when the storm was already past us and sun was shining. Nice! We were splashing in the puddles when the sirens were going off. Daryl and Samuel were looking in the sky for tornadoes. The next day I was playing outside when we heard a fire engine siren. Samuel immediately looked up at the sky and said he was looking "for tomatoes". I love this age!!!