Cleaning up the rain

In some respects I'm lucky it doesn't rain too much in Brisbane. It's not that I don't want it to rain, as we really could use it. What I'm worried about is Aidan's tendency to clean up the rain.

What happens is that each time it rains, Aidan rushes outside and grabs either a towel, a facewash, or tissues, and then attempts to mop up the rain, particularly from the back deck. The first time he did it I thought he was going outside to try to dry up his tricycle, which is now an "outside" toy. This wasn't the case. He seems to think that if it has rained, he needs to dry up any potential area where the rain has been. I can't begin to imagine how frustrating this could be for him, however, he is very methodical and attempts to dry certain areas first. If asked, he also is quite happy to stop, but if left to his own devices he will spend hours outside doing it.

He did go through a stage of using towels to dry up. We did have to put a stop to this quickly when all our swimming towels ended up soaked, muddy, and then used as face wipes for some strange reason. Now he's down to tissues, and can quickly go through a box if left alone.

I wonder if this is part of the reason for him asking on very sunny days, "Rain's Coming?"

Ciao for Now, Angry Dad.