The Pool

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning the boys played in the gameroom for a while and let us sleep a bit, though they were very loud. They only fought once with Noah coming in to tell us that Evan called him "poop names".

When Rachel and I got up, we tried to decide what to do today. Rachel said the boys wanted to go to the pool at the gym. I was hesitant because I think that since it was 4th of July weekend, it would be packed. Since I couldn't think of anything better to do, we decided to go.

When we got there, it wasn't crowded at all. At first the kids played in the very shallow end where they could walk around. Then we went where it was a bit deeper. Noah was very confident and would just jump into the water for us to catch them. It was great seeing him be so confident about it. Evan was jumping into the water too. He'd then swim several feet to get to one of us. He was doing well swimming.

Eventually, Evan said he wanted to go down the big water slide. There's a rope that blocks off the pool at the end of the slide. There is a lifeguard standing there but the don't want the parents waiting at the bottom. We have to be on the other side of the rope. Evan came down and immediately turned to his left and Rachel quickly went under the rope and grabbed him. Evan wanted to do it again. He ended up going down the slide probably a dozen times, if not more. Twice I went and Rachel went once. Before Evan's second-to-last time going down, the lifeguard at the top of the slide talked to Evan. We could see him talking to Evan. When Evan got to the bottom he quickly righted himself as he came in feet first and then swam about 20 feet to the edge of the pool and pulled himself out of the water. Rachel and I were stunned. I guess the lifeguard at the top told him to give it a try. So Evan was very proud and went back up and did it again.

We came home and had lunch and then put Noah down for a nap. He slept today. Evan fell asleep watching Ghostbusters in the gameroom.

After they woke up, I made popcorn while Rachel worked with Evan on reading time. She bought a lesson book and was working with him on it. He's very good at it.

For dinner we went to Joe's Crab Shack. We got a kid's meal of king crab for Evan. Rachel ordered a crab pot that came with sausage. Noah ate the sausage. Evan at all of his crap in about 2 minutes and then ate some of Rachel's crab.

After dinner, we stopped at HEB to pick up some food to grill tomorrow.

Now the kids are in bed, but Evan is singing.