Another Week

There isn't much to report from the past week; pretty much just life as usual. I do have to share these 2 photos, though, of Karis at her first dentist appointment. She was such a big girl - she sat still the whole time and did exactly what the "dentist" told her. (I still can't get her to understand that the dental hygenist who cleaned her teeth wasn't actually the dentist.) And you'd have thought it was Christmas when she received her toothbrush, toothpaste, and little tiny container of floss - PLUS a sticker!

I had scheduled all three of the kiddos - and myself - for appointments together, and while Karis was being worked on, I could hear Rachel giving her hygenist way too much family information, and Zekers interjecting comments at the top of his lungs. ("I wanna be a RAINBOW FISH!!!!" "I'm gonna go to Cubbies again and wear my VEST!!", etc.) The highlight of the visit, for all three of them, was getting to wear sunglasses because of the bright lights.

And now I thought I'd put up a few photos of the place we've spent a lot of our time this summer. I was debating whether or not to buy a pass, but since 3 of us are paying customers this year, I decided to go for it, and I'm so glad I did. We've already gotten more than our money's worth, since we've been going at least once or twice every week. It's worked pretty well so far: we eat lunch, go to the pool when it opens, around noon, and stay 2-3 hours, or as long as Malachi allows. Then we come home, and usually they're so tired out, they take great naps!

Malachi has gone from screaming at the mere sight of water, to walking up and down the length of the kiddie pool while hanging onto the edge of it. He has even started being OK with sitting in his floatie for short periods of time. Karis has become the water slide queen. She wouldn't go near it until this week, and now it's all she wants to do. The other day, she spent 2 hours going down the slide and climbing back up.

With the hot and humid weather we've had lately, the pool has been a lifesaver, and the only way to get the kiddos out-of-doors to play. I'm just hoping it takes them another several years to discover the concessions!







(The pool looks like a ghost town in these pix, because we went after Danny got home from work a few evenings ago and everyone had pretty much cleared out. Which is why I had a chance to take some pictures!)