rain, rain go away...

mason has a verse to this rhyme that i have never heard before, "rain, rain go away.   the children want to play today."  but today the kids had to play soccer in the rain.  while there was a lot of rain, there was no lightning so games were played as scheduled.  and we had the earliest ones - madelyn at 8:30 and mason at 9:30am.

matt was "encouraged" (aka told) that he needed to be at the heart walk today so he left around 6:30 to do the early shift and would meet us at the field before mason's game.

it was pouring when we woke up but had tapered down to only drizzle when we got there.  so i decided to put manning in the stroller after all.  when it was pouring, i thought that i would just hold him the whole time so that he could be under the umbrella with me.  everyone was pretty excited about using their umbrellas.

although the keeping dry with the umbrellas was very sort lived as they all decided that opening and closing them or twirling them around was much, much more fun.

the rain steadily increased during madelyn's game and the boys were getting wetter so i ended up holding manning to try and keep him dry - and warm, it was around 60 out.

madelyn was totally soaked (the picture doesn't really show how wet she was) and the boys were starting to fade into sadness at being wet and cold for so long by the time we were ready to move to mason's field.

as soon as mason's game started it was raining pretty hard and it occurred to me that i could get everyone else out of the rain and into the van where we would still be able to watch mason play.  so off we went.  i had dry clothes for madelyn and blankets for everyone else.  much better.

mason on the other hand was done before the game was.  he and maddux had stayed up pretty late last night (they just wouldn't go to sleep) and he was very cold.  but it wasn't anything that a team snack couldn't fix!

today is going to be a snuggly indoor day.  at least we will be dry.  love.