Come rain or shine.

(Goblin is 37 months)

Goblin is very much an 'all weather' child, so when he woke up this morning asking to go to the sandpit I said yes before even looking out the window - in fact looking out the window wouldn't have helped as it was 6am and pitch black out side. As it happens it had been raining cats and dogs all night and it was still raining ..... but that didn't stop us.

Some folks will look out the window, see rain and write the day off as a bust. But I think kids miss out on a lot if they only go out when the weather is fine. 

Of course if you don't dress for the weather you will have  miserable time of it. I recently invested in some thermal underwear for Goblin and today was definitely a thermals day. So he wore long johns, and thermal top, jeans, T-shirt, jumper, waterproof dungarees, and anorak. He was pretty toasty. And I made sure I had my wellies, tights under my jeans and lots of top layers to keep me toasty too. 

We do have glove issues. Its not that Goblin won't wear them, he will. But the woollen ones are much easier to put on but get wet really quickly. However the waterproof ski ones are much more difficult to put on and Goblin can't pull his breaks when he's wearing them. If anyone has any suggestions for gloves that are easy for small kids please let me know.

The rain wasn't constant and we managed to make it down to the sand pit without getting too wet. But then Goblin discovered that the sandpit was more like a pond. And the "pond" was covered in ice! Goblin used the big metal digger to smash the ice. And when that didn't work he resorted to picking it up and stamping on it. It didn't take too long for Goblin to realise that picking up ice with your bare hands made your hands pretty cold! So we resorted to some other activities instead.

Like climbing the sand tower; sliding down the slide - which he did at speed with his waterproof trousers on - launching off the bottom; crossing the wobbly bridge and pretending to eat wood chips in the wooden huts.

And of course he couldn't resist the water structures.

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