Do your kids have rain gear?

Our daycare is having "rain week" next week, and we got a note saying to send the kids to school with "appropriate outerwear." (I suppose if it doesn't actually rain, they'll create rain somehow.) It sounds like fun, but we don't have any rain gear! It barely rains here, and I just figured we'd get along without it. Am I weird? It seems like a big assumption that all toddlers are going to have real rain gear.

 

Well seeing as we live where it rains 9 months out of the year we definitely have rain gear. We have cute little critter rain boots and little rain coats too.

 

It rains a lot here, at least it has been lately, but no, I dont have rain gear. I often wondered if I should, but it seems rediculous to buy all that if they will grow out of it, and I can use a coat with a hood and an umbrella. I would call the daycare for specifics.

FYI: Lands end has some good rain stuff.

 

We do this year, and wish we had of last spring.
We had windbreaker sping jackets last year but not boots. But this year they had a blast this fall jumping and stomping in our "puddle boots".
My mom just got them rain jackets at her local thrift store in their sizes, and they love them. It also rains enough here that I think it is warrented. I'd probably ask a friend, or check out the thrift stores.

 

I was just saying this morning that I think it would be nice to have. I actually visited a childcare center with the philosophy of just because it's raining doesn't mean we wont' go outside. I love that. All of their cute boots and jackets were in the hall in their cubbies.

I think Target has affordable stuff ... I read that somewhere.

I want it because my girls love to get into puddles and that doesn't work well in their Striderite shoes.

I was thinking of going up a size in the jacket with teh hopes that they will fit into them next spring as well. I guess you could do water shoes depending on the temperature in your area.

 

We have been having a drought for 5+ years now so not much rain gear needed here but a couple of the kids do have their own umbrellas(no raincoats or anything). S&S had raincoats when we lived in USA because it rained alot more there,etc...

Rain Day sounds like fun though!!!

 

Yes. It rains here fairly frequently and they love stomping around in the rain, so they have rain jackets, galoshes, and "Pooh umbrellas."

 

No rain gear here. It rains here, but I guess we aren't in the rain often enough that any of us need gear. The only rain gear we've ever owned were the duck shoes and rain slickers we used in college.

 

Ooo, I forgot all about those duck shoes. I used those for winter boots in college (because they were cool, at least at the time) and they are so NOT warm!

Anyway, I guess I will check out the thrift/consignment stores. I do like that our daycare class goes outside in all weather, at least theoretically. They tend to avoid wind because it freaks some of the kids out -- A&S love it though. And sometimes they don't go out if it's muddy, because it's just too much of a pain for the teachers to have to change/wash all their clothes afterwards (they are really sweet -- they will throw the clothes in the laundry so the parents don't have to deal with mud-soaked clothes).

 

We don't have any yet, but I have been thinking of getting some fairly soon. Although it does rain here on a fairly regular basis, especially at some times of the year, it hasn't really come up as an issue yet. Generally if it's raining I just carry them to/from the car under my own umbrella, and we don't go outside to play when it's raining. But I've been thinking that they are getting to be big enough to get the concept of holding their own umbrellas and enjoying some puddle jumping.

 

I had to laugh because we have goloshes for all the kids because we live on a farm and wear them out in the pasture (cow doo) and in the creeks, and plus for rain too, but my Jack man is obsessed with his boots (they look like fireman's boots) and was wearing them this morning with his pj's to the sitters and the other Sunday he went stomping into church with them on. It just seemed easier to let him wear them than deal with the drama of trying to get them off. LOL

Mary