Here We Go Again
With the recent string of warm, spring-like days around here, we've been spending most of the day outdoors. It seriously makes me want to break into song and dance. The balmy temperatures have a similar effect on the kids, and my yard has been ringing with the sounds of my children warbling at the top of their lungs.
Be so glad that you aren't my neighbors. Be very, very glad.
One whiff of spring breeze, and a few hours of sunlight are all that is needed to transform my children into nudito banditos once more. That, and they can't stop playing with the outside faucets, which results in mud puddles, since our lawn is actually a dirt field with scattered clumps of weeds. With the creation of mud, they become nekkid pigs in a wallow, and there is honest-to-God snorting and oinking and stuff going on. Every time I take my eyes off of them, one of them is standing on top of the jungle gym, fifteen feet in the air, sing-ing-ing-ing about love, and freedom, and spring, and chocolate, all while naked as a peeled egg. Or coated in mud. Yeah.
So all day long, I'm like this:
"Turn off the water. Turn off the water. Turn off THE WATER."
"Where are your clothes? Find your clothes. Put on your pants! Where are your pants?"
"The water needs to be off. Get out of the mud!"
"Get down from there. Shush! Get down. Get down here and put some pants back on."
"Turn the water off! Where are your clothes? You need pants on!"
"Yes, you are singing nice, but the whole neighborhood doesn't want to look at your muddy butt while you sing."
"Get. Down."
"Water Off. NOW."
"Where are your PANTS?"
Ah, spring. It is truly here. And with summer right around the corner, I'm stocking up on pina colada mix now.
Comments
When did you install the camera in my backyard?? Only it's the rain that does me in every time. Want to see the proof, look here! http://www.flickr.com/photos/80047773@N00/130878026/in/set-72057594110579239/
Posted by: buffi | May 4, 2006 10:01 PM
I'll be right over for a drink. But, um, DUDE. Where are your pants?? ;)
Posted by: Mir | May 5, 2006 5:35 AM
I think my spring isn't nearly as colorful as yours, although it still is my favorite season. How old are these little spring-loving critters?
Cas
Posted by: cassie-b | May 5, 2006 7:48 AM
This reminds me of that Will Ferrell SNL sketch I used to love so much.
"Get off the shed!"
Did you ever see that one?
Posted by: Lucinda | May 5, 2006 7:54 AM
LOL!
Yes, well, I just wrote my ode to a rainy day on my blog.
Same song, different key, I believe.
I just tell my neighbors that I grew up in Appalachia and didn't wear shoes until I was 10. (Which is almost essentially true.)
They are seeming to take the gratuitous nudity and bare feet in winter in stride; I think they're just so happy we don't have a goat tethered on our front lawn.
Posted by: jozet | May 5, 2006 9:23 AM
OMW!!! And I thought my spring was bad-
"get out of the pond!"
"didn't I tell you to stay out of the water?"
"Sand in the SANDBOX!"
"for the sake of Pete! GET OUT OF THE POND!!!"
Wanna move next door to me? We can dunk them in the pond after their mudbath!
Posted by: Heather | May 5, 2006 10:31 AM
You say nudito bandito like it's a BAD thing.
Posted by: Jenn2 | May 5, 2006 11:36 AM
I once gave a birthday party for one of my kids in the middle of the summer in which the kids were invited to play in the fabulous new wading pool/slip-n-slide. Strangely, it was only about 85 degrees outside-- which is a fluke for around here. So one of my neighbors, who dressed her kids in 5 layers of clothes anytime it was below 100 degrees Celsius-- yes, I meant that-- called all the other parents and told them not to bring the swimsuits. Why? Because she was a control freak with a LOT of dadgum gall.
So here we have the pool all set up and no one is getting in, and it eventually comes out that the other parents didn't bring the swimsuits. And you know, 85 and humid is not that cool. So after wildly trying to come up with something else for the kids to do, we suddenly hear a splash. Another friend's two kids had stripped themselves nekkid and were just going to town out there. Soon there was a veritable riot on our hands, and children ended up in the pool all over the place-- some clothed, some not, but all happy. We had nudie rudy birthday patooties all over the place.
And my neighbor? She moved away, and now she wonders why I don't call....
Posted by: Ms Cornelius | May 8, 2006 5:02 PM
Sounds like my house. It's my heart kid w/the huge scar who likes to get naked most. We've convinced him that undies are a requirement.
At my husband's bday party a few years ago - it ahad rained all day but stopped when the party started - our house is small so we threw the kids outside. My kids are rolling in the mud while other parents try to control theirs - I kept saying they can borrow dry clothes, but there were no takers...
Posted by: maria | May 10, 2006 1:22 PM
home sweet home...
sounds like mine :)
Posted by: jennyonthespot | May 26, 2006 8:12 AM