Saturday 7-14-07

The girls were good last night. They ate their supper and played really well. Grandpa even put up the ultimate fort - they put up the tent in the yard. M and Austin had a lot of fun again this morning playing in that - so busy Austin didn't want to take time to eat breakfast. M on the other hand polished off her cinnamon roll, part of Dad's and part of mine. We lazed around in the morning and let the kids play and L roll on the floor. Then we got all three kids in the car and went back to SF to have lunch with T's friend from high school. We had a nice visit and the kids took turns playing in the toy room and back yard. It was warm out so we got out the squirt guns and filled the little baby pool and wet down the slide with a bucket of water. They say a picture is worth a thousand words - well in this case I'm not sure if the pictures captured all the squealing and giggling, chasing and running going on. Later in the afternoon we took them to the swimming pool. This was the first time for M in the big pool (except for hotel pools). She was excited to go with Dad and Austin while I took L to the wading pool. There were so many kids she was intimidated and it wasn't long before she came to join L and me. T & Austin showed off jumping off the diving boards and M clapped for them. Us girls just enjoyed the cool water and M took turns going down the slide and going under the spray of water from the frog. At five we decided to go and get cleaned up and have supper (after one more round of squirt guns in the back yard). We watched a movie and had pizza before driving back down to Beresford. The plan was to shoot some fireworks which we did, but it wasn't as enjoyable as we were hoping. M fell asleep in the car so hard she wet her pants, L decided it was time to eat right as we were cleaning up M and Austin was getting tired of waiting for us. We did a few and then put the kids to bed - M and A on the waterbed, L in the playpen. By then T & I were ready for a drink and a dip in the hot tub. I was hoping to be in bed early, but we were enjoying actually talking to each other and seeing the stars that before we knew it Mom and Dad, Mark and Shirley were back from the play so we talked to them some before finally going to bed.