Atticus in the Rain

Atticus and I were out in the rain the other night.

We came out of Food Lion and the rain was falling in sheets from the dark sky.

He was walking by holding one of my hands, but he wanted to hold his other hand out to feel the rain. He kept twisting his body around and sort of falling over onto the wet pavement. He seemed to want to do this, but then would cry out to be helped back up again.

His pants were getting soaked. He was only wearing his dinosaur jacket and I was worried he'd get sick (he'd been cold-free for over a week).

Earlier he'd done well pushing the little shopping cart around the store. 

He got scared of a guy with a floor buffer.

He was so enchanted by the rain. He kept lifting his face up to it and trying to catch it in his mouth. His eyes were so bright and young.