First day in the pool!

Today felt a lot like a Monday because I decided to clean and have Lucy over today instead of Monday.  David was supposed to work but he ended up not having to so I was able to go to my BSF share time in the morning.  The last BSF meeting of the year does not include child care because the children's workers are in with everybody in case they want to share.  I didn't share anything but it was so cool to hear everyone else talk.  There were some people that seemed to be living through every lesson we were learning in Genesis, it was so neat.  While I was gone, David was at home with the girls.  He gave them baths and got them dressed and fed them.  Lucy arrived around 9:30 and he said that she and Haley played nicely.  Emily got tired around ten thirty so he put her down for a nap.  When I got home David was laying in the middle of the floor of the den and Haley and Lucy were playing around him and walking over him/on top of him as if he wasn't there.  I got right to work cleaning bathrooms and dusting.  Haley and Lucy wandered into the bathroom every so often and used the potty or just watched me clean.

David woke Emily up around 11:30 so that she would sleep later and then we all had lunch.  Amanda had made us cookies since it was our last time with Lucy before the summer and Haley and her had already eaten most of the plate so they didn't eat too much for lunch.  I gave them one cookie each but when I walked by the plate later, most of them were gone.  I guess I should have put them out of reach.  After lunch the girls played outside for a while and then I put them down for naps.  Lucy went right down but Haley and Emily kept eachother awake with crying and talking.  They took turns being loud and after over an hour David moved Haley to our bed and then both girls went right to sleep.  Emily only slept about an hour and a half and then she woke up, lame.  Haley ended up sleeping so long that we had to wake her up.

 Lucy woke up and Ben came and picked her up while Haley was still sleeping.  Actually, Lucy went boo boo in the potty for me!  I know they have really been working on that lately and if you may remember, she booed in her pull-up last week and I hosed her off.  Today, before she went for a nap I reminded her to tell me when she had to go boo so that I wouldn't have to hose her off.  She must have remembered because when she woke up from her nap she went right away.  I was pretty excited for her and I had some ice cream in the freezer so I gave her a bowl of that and she ate it outside.  Hopefully she got the message: boo in the potty gets you ice cream, boo in your pants gets you hosed off.

This evening we did our church potluck a little bit differently.  We all met at an older couple from church's house and had a wedding shower for a couple in our church who are getting married this July.  The people had a pool and we all got them some kind of 'tool' so the theme was 'tools by the pool.'  Amanda did the decorating and everything looked so good, it was very impressive.  We brought our bean bag game and that was a pretty big hit.  The pool water was actually pretty warm so I ended up putting bathing suits on both girls and they both got in.  Haley had to warm up to the idea at first but I was really glad about that because last year she jumped off the side with reckless abandonment.  This year she was a lot more timid thank goodness.  Emily loved the water.  She was kicking and flailing her arms like a crazy baby.  We had burgers and hotdogs for dinner and ice cream sundaes for dessert.  One of the games was to guess what your spouse was going to put on their sundaes and David guessed mine perfectly:  bananas, whipped cream, chocolate, and chocolate sprinkles.  I guess rainbow sprinkles, and caramel for David but he just put rainbow sprinkles on.  When I asked him why he didn't put caramel on he made a face and said, "not with the sprinkles!"

Haley probably asked to use the potty about four or five times when she was in the pool.  I kept having to get her out and take her to the potty.  After she got out and was all dry and dressed, she had an accident in her clothes!  I thought it was ironic because I would not have cared at all if she had just gone in the pool but I totally cared when it was in her clothes!  Emily did really well at the party much to my surprise, I thought she might get cranky after her super short nap.  She got passed around a lot and spent a lot of time in the pool.  We left around 9 and Emily fell asleep in the van right away.  When we got home we put them in their beds and they went right to sleep.

Haleyism:
Haley kept moving her legs back and forth in the pool (one at a time) and she would yell, "look mommy!  I'm swimming!"

Emilyism:
I thought Emily would hate the pool since she hates the water at the splash pad but she loved the it.  Also, this was Emily's first time in a pool!

Hanging at the pool

Everybody kept commenting how Emy looked like she was doing a swimsuit ad

Lunch with the girls