Finally! I got a day off with the kids - I had to give up the first, first day of summer for a meeting...what a joke! But we made up for it today with a marathon pool day. Keaton pulled an all-nighter at Jonathan and Nick's last night, so he was a bit of pill to start, but all was well once we found our chairs in the shade, put the towels out and headed for the slides....they aren't big slides and it's not a fancy pool/water park, but it's also NOT a Y, it's not too crowded, it's clean and you can bring coolers...perfect!
This is the "Pirate Ship" part of the park - lots of water spraying, dumping, shooting and wooshing around, along with the slides.
I think this was going to be some kind of synchronized effort, but Keaton can always be distracted by a camera!!!
Keaton spent the majority of the day leaping off the diving board....by the end of the day, I was referring to him as My Joyful Leaping Boy! Some leaps were more ridiculous than others - the bicep curl/muscle man leap - not pretty, the Heisman leap - well executed, I might add...his first attempt was more of a walk to the end of the board and drop in the water and then he got progressively more bold, more bouncy, got a running start, and that's when he added the 'themes' to his leaps! Keaton, I love your spirit!
This is my favorite water feature - the mushroom - who doesn't love a waterfall mushroom on a 100 degree day?! Notice the little boy with his arms wrapped around the base of the mushroom - he spent a lot of time there today!
See those faces? See my kids smiling and getting along? All day long they were fabulous with each other...just add water, that's the key to a happy summer - oh, and the free root beer and coke floats the pool gave out from 1-4pm didn't hurt! They both worked on their free swimming in the deep end - Keaton made great progress on his freestyle and Peyton did really well swimming on top of the water - usually she is most comfortable swimming any distance at all under water. By the end of August they should be little fish!
The negative of the day - Keaton has a nasty sunburn the exact shape of his baseball jersey. He has the ultimate farmer tan from baseball and now the ultimate farmer belly and back burn. I sunscreened too late and he wouldn't stay out of the water and now he is radiating heat like a coleman stove...poor baby. Tylenol, a cool shower and aloe are in his immediate future.
I am off the next 2 Fridays for more of the same - mini-vacations make the world go 'round!
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