Summer Chalk Fun

 I am trying to catch up a little bit.  While it is technically still summer (don't remind me), these pictures were actually taken a few months ago at the beginning of the summer when it was still new! and exciting! to go draw pictures on the driveway.

Well, it never gets old for Ashley, but I stop buying the chalk after a while and then the kids discard the little nubby ends like confetti across our yard, and my enthusiasm wanes significantly.

Ashley takes her chalk art very seriously.  She drew these huge flowers for. . .well, I don't know what reason, actually.  She usually doesn't answer me when I ask her anything about her drawings, because she is in the zone, as they say.

James really took to the chalk, however.  He was dying to help his sister.

She humored him, for a time.  

But soon she had to shoo everyone away before the little boys in question destroyed her artistic vision.

Ashley has to stop every so often anyway to survey her progress and plan what to do next.  Sometimes I can get her to talk during these brief pauses, but sometimes she is still too swallowed up in the dreamland of her art.

 

And this picture is to remind me of my amusement every time we drain the bath water in the summer.  Kids sure bring in a lot of dirt, don't they?  (Of course bathing four at once only compounds the problem, but I'm not going to split hairs, here.)

I do love summer.  I do not love the humidity in our area of the country.  But I have learned to live with it thanks to our blessed modern-day convenience of air conditioning.  Pioneers, I do not know how you did it, but you've earned a place in heaven just for surviving the midwest summers in all those petticoats and long sleeves!