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6.24.2008

Summertime Baths



Brent has taken to bathing the girls in the backyard hose at night. It is amazing what gluttons for punishment they are. The pictures show them with a small princess umbrella as their only line of defense. This was after I encouraged them to use it. Brent had convinced them that tennis rackets were a perfect shield. He found it quite hilarious.



The baths do seem to leave a few stray pieces of grass randomly stuck to their bodies. I still can't get over how Brent can squirt an adorable, shivering little thing like this?



I think Ellery would be fine with being squirted all day long. In fact the hose at our house gets quite a bit of use. Our two little neighbor boys have taken to spying in our windows. When Brent catches them at it, he launches a full scale water attack. The poor little guys go home drenched. Somehow I don't think the water war is acting as a deterrent to the spying!

1 comment:

Brittney said...

That's hilarious. I laughed out loud about Brent's oh-so-thoughtful suggestion to use a tennis racket. =)