Summertime fun

Somehow we went straight from winter to summer. There really wasn't a "spring". Other than a few cool, crisp days when you could keep the windows open, May was mostly rainy. In fact, I heard on the news that it rained 80% of the days in the month of May. Now that June is here it has been hot and humid. We have had the air conditioner on since Thursday morning with no plan of turning it off in the near future. I like the warm weather but this is the kind of heat that makes you want to run from one cool indoor place to another.

The good news is that the pool opened this weekend for the season. This is a new experience for me...joining a public pool. In fact, I bought our season pass in February before I went to pick up Grace, knowing this day was coming. And, we had the best time. The "pool" really is an aquatic center with water slides, a lazy river, a big pool with waterfalls, a sandy "beach", a picnic area...you get the picture. The biggest part of the main pool is ideal for little kids. The water gets deeper gradually and you enter like you would at the beach (no steps or ladders). And it never gets deeper than waist height in this section. Grace had the best time. She practiced walking holding my hands, kicked her feet, touched the water coming out of the waterfall and spouts, and watched everyone. We only stayed a couple of hours, but she was worn out! The pool is only 5 miles away from our house but she didn't even make it to the first traffic light before she was asleep.

Then, this afternoon, we played with her newest toy - a sand and water table from Nana and Big Daddy. It kept Grace busy for a long time - she might still be playing if I hadn't told her it was time for dinner and a bath! The only problem is that Grace seemed to like eating the sand! I suppose she isn't the first kid to eat sand, so I am not too concerned about it. If you look closely at the pictures, you can probably see the sand all over her face...and on the deck...and on her clothes....I can definitely say she had the full sensory experience offered by this toy.