When I Thought It Would Storm, and Then It Didn't

Yesterday J was cooking dinner but it was going to take awhile longer, so I got the kids outside so we could enjoy the GLORIOUS weather we've been having. It's nice and cool, with a breeze, the kind of weather that just makes you want to be outside and do everything and anything outside. The exact opposite of the blisteringly hot weather we've had most of the summer. Thank goodness!

At first I was going to try and go to the park down the street, but as we started on our way, it looked ominously like rain. So we plopped down in our front yard, and I got R to start collecting things in her bucket. I sent her off to find clover in our yard, and she had a blast digging up rocks and picking clover flowers. RUS entertained himself trying to eat grass and only sometimes getting upset when I took it out of his hands.

He just recently learned to point, so this is him exhibiting his newfound skills. He points constantly! At everything! But it's great because it reminds me to tell him about everything around him. I've started describing everything I see, everything that could possibly be what he is pointing at, that is, which, really, is everything.
R gave RUS several kisses on the top of his head and I missed it every. single. time! This is the closest I got, with her just finishing up her kiss and in the middle of saying "mwah!"