It rained heavily yesterday afternoon. Charles was playing outside so we brought him in when the rain started. However, he kept trying to go out in to the garage which we didn’t allow because we thought he wanted to go through there to outside. However, it seems that what he really wanted was a small umbrella that was in the car in the garage (I had taken it away from him and Corwin when they wanted to use it as a toy in the car on a trip).
I got the umbrella and sent Charles out in to the rainstorm. Charles thought it was great. He was out there about 20 minutes. He used the umbrella but still managed to get fairly wet. He needed a bath anyway so this wasn’t a problem. Charles favorite spot was under a failing gutter which provided aperiodic washes of rainwater. Amazingly, the umbrella survived without damage.