The plastic ice cream cone filled with bubbles, costing only a dollar and smelling just like chocolate, was a perfect way to pass a warm late afternoon on the porch.  I held the cone and she held the ice cream with the bubble wand.  Together we filled the porch with beautiful, soft, every size bubbles.

Just watching her put her little heart and soul into such a fun adventure, made my day.  As I was sitting there helping her, it took me back to my childhood and the bubbles we blew back then.  I wondered when people first started blowing bubbles?   I learned upon a brief amount of research that;

~bubble blowers are among the oldest and most popular of children's toys.  Even when families had no money for toys, they could find a wire to twist into a circle and some soap for blowing bubbles.

~Around 1733, artis Jean Simeon Chardin painted Soap Bubbles, which depicted a young man leaning out a window and blowing a bubble with a pipe.

~The earliest patents for bubble blowers known date back to the 1920s.

~Blowers are truly part of our culture and today come in many unique and interesting containers.   This info came from http://bubbleblowers.com/history

Because the sun was brilliantly shining, the bubbles appeared to have many different colors.

Her little clenched fist is an indication of the seriousness with which she tackled this job.

All sizes of bubbles...our afternoon fun.  Enough excitement shared here today:)