Fun ordinary day

Early this morning, I told the kids we should go outside before it started raining.  Sarah came right out, but Noah was reluctant, because he was involved in something unproductive inside.  Sarah and I drew with chalk on the driveway for awhile.  I drew the above picture of Noah, standing in a puddle of his own tears, with a speech bubble saying, "Why didn't I go outside with Mom and Sarah?  Wah!"  Then I came inside and told him that I drew a picture of him on the driveway, and he came running out to see it. He thought it was funny and started playing outside.

Here he is loading gunpowder (clover) into his rifle (baseball bat) while pretending to be a colonial soldier.

Firing his rifle at imaginary Redcoats.  (We've been studying a lot about the Revolutionary War in preparation for our trip to Boston).

Meanwhile, Sarah was making vegetable soup.  She said she made it out of a new kind of a vegetable called a "zucchiwi" (or maybe "zukiwi").

 We did some math on the driveway, but the kids think we were just playing a bullseye game.  The green airborne blob in the picture is the leaf we were using to toss onto the target.

We spent a long time throwing balls onto and over the roof.  The tennis balls got stuck in the gutter a few times (that's why the ladder is out), before we moved on to the bigger ones.
We ended up having several hours of my favorite weather (cool and cloudy) before it rained. I even had time to do pool maintenance and garden work. While we were sitting in the garage watching the rain, Noah thanked me for making him come outside and said he had lots of fun.