The town pool is irresistible to me. On any even slightly warmish, slightly sunnyish day, it sings it's siren song and my resistance crumbles. We don our summer uniforms consisting of trunks and tankinis and we load up the van. When we arrive, we parade through the shower room and take our positions. Everyone at the pool has their "spot". Ever so often an unknowing pool newbie will plop their stuff down in our spot. An opportunity for me to practice grace and mercy. The bag of pool toys gets dumped out for the pool community to share, and the begging for snacks begins. Because that is why my children come to the pool. To eat.
My number one pool pet peeve:
When people bring expensive, special toys to the pool and then guard them with their lives. This is the baby pool filled with lots of little people who haven't learned to share yet. Let's not perpetuate the problem. Let's share or let's just leave it home. Your kid can use my kids' cheap , plastic watering can, I don't mind.
So the one problem I run into is nap time. Every year I either have a baby or a toddler at the pool, nap time is tricky. Should I lay them down early in order to get it out of the way before we go or should I tempt fate and maybe they will sleep at the pool giving me a rare opportunity to sit down and not chase them all over kingdom come? Tough call.
Yesterday I tempted fate and Toby became my favorite child of the day. A little shade, a little Plumb on the iPod, all wrapped up in mom's favorite pool cover up, and he was out. It was a good day at the pool.
8 comments:
so HAPPY.
oh how i miss having a town pool!! those were sweet days when my first 2 were babies.
If that isn't the sweetest picture I have ever seen. I've never heard of blink, but just checked it out. Awesome! I wonder if Ethan would like that. I downloaded Cars for our plane ride to Arizona. But before we left I couldn't get it to download properly. Ugh! But after we returned, I finally uploaded it and added it to my little ipod for Ethan to watch on his way home. worked great and kept him happy for the hour and a half.
oh Toby.. you are so dang cute... next will be matt chandler!!
miss those pool side chats and matchin swimmies!! love ya!
that tanned little hand is SO cute.
my kids go to the pool to eat, too. too bad for them that we go to an indoor pool at the gym...no snacks allowed :)
happy swimming!
Oh Toby you are so cute... you can steal I mean eat my whole grain goldfish any day!
Oh to be little again, wrapped in that much security. *sigh* Sweetness defined.
hmm, must have been before he turned orange from my totally not healthy--not whole grain--Clancy's cheese puffs!!!
yay for the pool!!!!
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