monsoons

 The monsoons are here and we love them. So fun to play in the rain!  The picture above and the one below wasn't rain, it was Alden and Calvin playing with the water. They were so excited because they had made their own swimming pool.  They even explained all the nice features it had...diving board, hot and cold pools, deeper end..ext.
After they had played for a while I suggested we go to the big swimming pool. Alden looked at me bewildered, "why would we do that mom, we have our very own swimming pool here!" He then went on trying to convince me to go swimming with them.

 I think the whole swimming pool thing made Alden excited about building things. The other day he came to me and said how he was going to build a temple. (He explained how they are nice and that way we wouldn't have to drive to mesa each month we could just go in our back yard.)
He then explained part of his plan. He said how he needed lots of people to help, so he was going to make a sign that he was going to have me hold out by the street and then him and Calvin would be working in the back yard.
His first sign read, "get ants". I guess that was the first step before he could build his temple, he needed to rid the yard of all the ants.
I Suggested that we hang the sign up. He loved that idea," yes" as he excitedly jumps up and down,"then you can help too!"
With great excitement he hung up his sign, he then ran in saying, "mom, the door bell is going to start ringing and lots of people will start coming!!"
After a few hours Alden started to get disappointed that no one had come. I explained that it could be his sign.. Not everyone comes running to get ants.
He then made his next sign, "Treats, come help". Surely everyone would come running if treats were involved and this time he let them know he wanted them to come. Also he wrote it in larger print and put it on bright paper.
Well as you can imagine people did not come running as Alden had anticipated. He now has moved on to his next great idea.

His project did make me think that we would have quite the world if all you needed to do when you needed help was to put up a sign and have everyone come running.