Rainy Days and Worms

It has been raining a lot here. I was trying to stay indoors but then I remembered my favorite days were going outside in the rain or after the rain with my sister and playing. So we have been making aluminum foil boats and giving pasta shells a ride in the gutters. We have also been worm hunting! The first day we find a dried leaf and give the worm a ride down the gutter. Marlena also builds a worm house out of leaves. After she has played in the water and let the worms crawl all over her arms and hands I tell her we were going to have to take a bath. She asks me if we are going to wash her hair. I see the clump of grass clippings in her hand and I know where this is going. The big smile on her face made me tell her "Go for It!" She places hand fulls of wet grass clipping in her hair. It is a good day.

Day two of worm hunting is a little more interesting. I'm trying to not project my fears on Marlena so I have held snails in my hands, let spiders walk across my arm and try not to flinch when I see a wasp fly by my head. I don't even mind little worms but on day two of worm hunting we saw the biggest, ugliest worm I had ever seen. I did not want to touch it! Marlena had no problem picking it up and examining it, she wanted me to hold it too. This I just could not bring myself to do. I am proud to say she is braver then me. She looked at the worms tail (or was it his head)and says "Look Mama, it has a finger!" which was about as big as my index finger so know why she said that. Luckily she did not want to play with it long. I was glad we could get back to the aluminum foil boat.