Looking for beup-beups (aka frogs)

This morning, Sofia and I went out on a regular outing - frog hunting, or "beup-beups" as Sofia calls frogs. It was a bit chilly this morning and we generally go for such an outing in the afternoon, but after a long day of rain yesterday, I figured we should get out and see what we could find. Sofia loves to wade through water and I recently bought her the cutest cow rain boots at Target, but they are a few sizes too large and are heavy compared to what she's used to wearing, so they would be more effort than they are worth. We bundled up (it was in the low 50s this morning and foggy) and headed out.....

All set for our walk - octopus and crab are ready to go too! (They ended up in my pocket a few minutes later after she tossed them aside)


One of her favorite past times - finding rocks! We joke that she is slowly bringing every rock from outside into our house!


Water from the previous day's rain! Fun! She sloshed through this for at least 20 minutes before I convinced her we should walk down to visit Kitty.


She says "splash, splash, splash" as she plays in the water


Kitty! This cat lives in the house at the end of the block and is incredibly friendly and almost always outside. He is very good to allow Sofia to do just about anything to him - including pull his tail!


Ants! She loves to play with the ant mounts, although a few weeks ago they bit her so now she isn't as fond of them


Walking on the rocks near our lake - she LOVES to walk the entire way (with my help) on the rocks. Kitty follows us for most of our walk


Looking out over the water - we saw a ton of little frogs, but weren't able to catch any yet again


Post frogging snack - hummus on crackers and stawberries - yum!! (She actually requests hummus now!)