I loaded up 2 of my kids last night to take them to the lake to go swimming. We had one of those family inflatable pools. First let me say by "Family Pools" that is what it said on the box, I am pretty sure they meant a family of maybe 3, not a boat load of people. If you put my whole family in the water at the same time, we pretty much look like a ship sunk and we are the survivors :) The pool was not ready for that. Yes the pool got a hole, patched it, then another hole, patched that too but the 3rd and fatal hole was not found so the pool was deflated and tossed.
I picked the 8 and 10 yr old last night and my laptop, off we went. Found the place backed the truck up and I sat in the back writing on Bear and Sparrow. My daughter was swimming along have fun but my son...holy shizzle! The child can swim, he reminds me of a elephant trying to do the butterfly stroke, its just not pretty and there is a whole lot of water flying all around. I know the boy can swim normal but I think it was just the sheer joy of being in a body of water bigger than my butt, which the pool was just barely bigger than that. At our old house we had a pond in the backyard, so this pool thing is pretty new to them all. When we first blew it up and after seeing purple stars and passing out from lack of oxygen, when my husband and I finally came to sprawled out flat on our backs on the deck...The kids were just excited to know cold water was going into it, they didn't even blink when I had to pull out a giant shoe horn to pry them all out of the pool later like sardines.
You can't take the 2yr. old to a lake this year, you just can't. She has become a nudist this summer and I have seen way more naked than I have seen in all my years with my husband. That is saying a lot because I am married to a man with a body like a Greek God and walks through the house dropping clothing it seems. It's almost like there is an invisible vacuum that as he walk either sucks or blows his clothing off him, I find piles or pieces here and there. My 2yr.. old spends her entire day almost naked and since she is potty training, the rest of her day is spent trying to hide or get rid of the diaper. So I live in NakedVille where naked is...EVERYWHERE lol
So I sat in the back of my truck in the burning sun while my legs sweated, got attacked by mosquitoes and watched my 2 kids swim or something similar to it. It was fun, I got a few more pages of Bear written and things went well. The great thing about having so many kids is that when we got home, 45 minutes later, they were all excited to see us. Almost as if we had been gone on a safari for a year. They were screaming and hugging, shrieking and kissing and then we ushered them off to bed for the night. Still have to say after all these years, a very odd feeling having a family this large and growing up a only child :) Some might say I over did it with the kids, I'll just say I made up for the lack of my parents participation in childbearing :)
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