Rainy Day

On Monday Phoenix got a HUGE storm! It rained all day and had crazy wind all night! I kept jumping up thinking a tree had fallen over or that something had crashed into the house. The wind was literally making the house shake! I haven't checked our roof tiles, but it looks like we were fortunate and only lost a few stalks of corn (and our full garbage can ended up down the street).

In the morning, Ethan was busy taking a 4 hour nap, and I was afraid he would miss the rain, so as soon as he woke up I put a sweatshirt and shoes on him (with his pjs) and took him out to play. He loved it!

At first he stayed by the front door and either played with the rain gutters (quite a novelty on an Arizona house actually) or pointed all over saying "da...da...da."
Then I took him out to the gutter so he could splash in a "puddle."
I love rain!
I got him to splash his feet a few times, but not on camera of course. For the sake of not boring you with Ethan's entire encounter with rain, here is a little clip. (All of the rain pictures and videos are from my phone-sorry for the poor quality!)