It's raining!

We've gotten 2/10 of an inch of precip. this year, so rain is a big deal. Coming from Kansas, where spring means rain, and thunderstorms, and tornado sirens going off, I had no idea that I would miss it so much. I really do. We all do. We'd only been here a little while when Isabella burst out, "IT'S TOO SUNNY! Why is it always sunny!?" You would think always sunny would be wonderful, right? It gets boring.
Spring in New Mexico means wind. The kind of wind we would equate with tornado weather, but no rain. It just blows sand. They cancelled the first 3 concerts in the park because of wind. How crazy is that?
So, this background might make you appreciate just how excited we were when the first drops started coming down. It sprinkled for about 5 minutes, but we were all jumping around in the backyard like idiots shouting "IT'S RAINING!!" We had dinner, went on a walk, and the rain came again! Isabella had this tiny little umbrella that she and Annika were trying to crouch under and Annika kept singing "Rain rain, go away," which made Isabella shriek, "No! Don't go away!" I don' t think she really wanted it to go away, she just doesn't know any other songs with the word "rain" in them.
We passed a little boy who had lost his lucky penny, and Bella decided that was what made it rain, which was really funny because everytime it would stop, she'd yell "I hope he loses his penny again!!"
So, it rained a total of 15 minutes, and there were 3 or 4 claps of thunder, and the Vermooten family went crazy. That's about par for the course, wouldn't you say?