Make like a duck and SWIM
Since it's been, oh, about a million degrees here, with a jillion degree heat index, we've been pretty miserable campers. Too hot to go outside to play, and every afternoon it clouds up and storms. Today, though, it wasn't but 98 degrees, and so we went over to my father in law's house to swim. He had a great pool, and feeds us when we are over. He doesn't swim at all, so he loves for us to come over and enjoy the pool.
We packed up the kids, some neighbor friends, a dozen floaties, three swim vests, a beach ball and the sunblock, and we were off. Then we came right back - we had forgotten the (very important) swim diapers. On our way again - wait, nope, not yet. Forgot Emma's water shoes. Ever since she got a splinter in her foot (while I was in Chicago), she is insistent that she must have her shoes.
At last, we got there. Everyone jumped in, except Riley and me. She was exceptionally irritable, and so I decided to do her therapy. I hoped that this would calm her enough and then she could enjoy the pool. Alas, it was not to be. We got in the pool and she shrieked. I put her in her floatie and she cried. I sat her on the steps and she bawled. We got out of the pool, and she gestured to get back in. She walked away from me and fell in the pool before I could get there. Luckily, The Hubster was right there and grabbed her before she went fully under.
Emma loves "Ring around the rosie", and so I thought we could play this with Riley to help her adjust. I couldn't help but think of the song my brother in law made up the last time he was at the pool and misunderstood The Hubster's word "rosie" for "rosary":
Ring aroud the rosary, I'm wearing my mother's hosiery, Panties, garters, they all fall DOWN!
Sacreligious, but really funny.
I looked at The Hubster, who I knew was remembering the same song and pretty soon we were both convulsed in laughter. He laughed so hard he fell off the raft. That cracked Emma up, and Riley even smiled. To be funny, The Hubster tried to get back on the raft and fell off, three or four times. The last time, he miscalculated and smacked his head on the bottom of the pool.
Oops. Our fun time at the pool was over.
Hello, michele sent me :)
Posted by: fatty | July 22, 2005 at 08:11 PM
Sounds like a great day! Michele sent me!
Posted by: Samantha | July 22, 2005 at 08:14 PM
Sounds like an interesting day at the pool. LMAO at the rosary song... I'll never be able to think of the ring around the rosie song the same way again!
Posted by: cathy | July 22, 2005 at 08:16 PM
Yeah, why is it that kids think falling down is the funniest thing ever? Mine were dying laughing over this:
http://people.freenet.de/crossroads/tetka.swf
Good times, good times.
Posted by: Jenny | July 23, 2005 at 12:11 AM
Ouch! That sounds like something I would do.
Michele sent me today.
Posted by: terrilynn | July 23, 2005 at 05:46 PM