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7.26.2009
7.21.2009
Good Clean Fun
All day I told the kids we were going to either go to the pool or check out the sprinkler park. The kids voted to go to the pool. So after dinner we got swimsuits on, grabbed the swim stuff, and loaded up the car. But when we got to the pool, it was closed.
Bummer. (It's been closed for a week!)
So we decided to check out the sprinkler park instead. It's about a 10-15 minute drive. When we got there - we found another "temporarily closed" sign.
Double Bummer!
So we filled up the kiddie pool in the back yard and I gave the kids 3 cans of shaving cream. The little kids were iffy about the cream.
They just washed my patio chairs for me. 
But the big kids had a lot of fun with it.
They got it all over.
Next time I'll buy 10 cans of shaving cream.
Gotta love the $1 store for cheap, clean fun!
Bummer. (It's been closed for a week!)
So we decided to check out the sprinkler park instead. It's about a 10-15 minute drive. When we got there - we found another "temporarily closed" sign.
Double Bummer!
So we filled up the kiddie pool in the back yard and I gave the kids 3 cans of shaving cream. The little kids were iffy about the cream.
They just washed my patio chairs for me. 
But the big kids had a lot of fun with it.
They got it all over.
Next time I'll buy 10 cans of shaving cream.
Gotta love the $1 store for cheap, clean fun!
7.19.2009
The difference between men and women
We had milk and cookies before bed tonight.
(I was craving pumpkin chocolate chip cookies; they are like crack.
Not good for the waistline; but really yummy.)
Isaac asked if we were having manmilk or womanmilk.
(I was craving pumpkin chocolate chip cookies; they are like crack.
Not good for the waistline; but really yummy.)
Isaac asked if we were having manmilk or womanmilk.
Womanmilk is skim. Manmilk is anything else.
Mini Fun
It seems that kids love tiny sized things. We made a special trip to Target to get a tea set and buy tiny snacks. Then we came home and had a tea party lunch. Even the big kids wanted in. (It is kind of funny to watch a ten-year-old boy eating off a pink polka-dotted flower shaped plate.) Everyone had fun and there have been more requests for tea parties since.
7.18.2009
7.17.2009
Missing Aspen
Aspen has been at camp all week. It always amazes me how much difference one person gone can make. Anyway, this is my new favorite picture of Aspen. Can't wait to see her tomorrow.
*EDA: I can't decide which version I like better. What's your vote?
Outdoor showering
It is HOT here: 104 today!...same as yesterday and the month before that. It will be the same until October I think. Anyway, outdoor activites must revolve around water. We bought a small pool for the back yard so that kids can have something to cool off in. (Because of the incisions from my surgery I can't actually get wet. And Amy is a little overhwelmed watching 8 children at the neighborhood pool). So we're doing the backyard kiddie pool variety until I get cleared by the doc next week.
So we filled the pool up this morning. And it sat...and sat... and sat. By the time the kids got in it, the water temperature was 92 degrees.
Nice bathtub warm. The kids had a lot of fun. And since the shade of the house was now covering th pool, we didn't have to do sunscreen. yay!!
Kids played.
Kids competed in holding their breath under water.
Then after they were done, we shampooed their hair and washed them off in the hose. The air was over 100 degrees. The hose water, I must admit, was a little on the cool side. But it was more effecient than traipsing water through the house just to get dressed. Good thing that the golfers had mostly given up and gone home by that point.
We washed everybody. Just only got the camera out at the end when McKay was the last.
But now it occurrs to me that I would love an outdoor shower...with maybe a bit more privacy than a wrought iron fence along the golf course, of course. Keep all the wet outside.
So we filled the pool up this morning. And it sat...and sat... and sat. By the time the kids got in it, the water temperature was 92 degrees.
Nice bathtub warm. The kids had a lot of fun. And since the shade of the house was now covering th pool, we didn't have to do sunscreen. yay!!Amy blew up water balloons for everyone.
Kids got wet.
Kids played.
Kids competed in holding their breath under water.
Then after they were done, we shampooed their hair and washed them off in the hose. The air was over 100 degrees. The hose water, I must admit, was a little on the cool side. But it was more effecient than traipsing water through the house just to get dressed. Good thing that the golfers had mostly given up and gone home by that point.
We washed everybody. Just only got the camera out at the end when McKay was the last.
But now it occurrs to me that I would love an outdoor shower...with maybe a bit more privacy than a wrought iron fence along the golf course, of course. Keep all the wet outside.
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