Ainsley's Summer Menu

Now that Summer is officially here, we've been spending a lot of time outside, which has introduced Ainsley to some new tastes. It all started in late spring when we were planting our front yard flower garden. The brightly-colored gardening tools, topping her bucket with soil...it was all a little too tempting:
Though she actually appears to be choking, she was just showing us the evidence. It didn't seem to phase her too much - a few heaping mouthfuls, and she was convinced it wasn't actually chocolate cake. She was calling it "choca", her word for chocolate.

Fast forward a week later, when we filled up the sandbox for summer. Once again, the digging, measuring, and scooping dug up memories of baking, and the sand was sampled. I caught the shot, mid-gritty-chew.
That weekend, Kevin and the girls were baking bread to distract Ainsley from Mommy being gone. Ainsley had her own flour to scoop and measure while Kevin and Reiley were tackling the real bread. This ghost lady is the product of flour play, and Kevin claims that she may have eaten about 6 tablespoons of flour - with no water to wash it down.
She makes up for that with the amount of water she guzzles at the pool:-).