Sunday, June 10, 2007

surf's up

Abby has been waiting for this weekend since the first green blades of grass made an appearance through the snow this past winter. When were we going to put the pool up? Most of our neighbours that have pools set theirs up the weekend before, which was pure torture to Abby. Especially when they started swimming in them. So this weekend I cracked the whip and got Michael working on it.

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Oh, I was supposed to do this in my bikini with a bikini wearing friend. How silly of me not to notice.

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Waiting so patiently. I wasn't about to tell her she still had a few more hours to wait.

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I think we're going to save ourselves some money this year and not fill it. The girls were having a perfectly good time without water. We'll have imagination water. Yeah that will be awesome.

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Okay, so we did have the pool filled Saturday afternoon and it was freakin' cold people. This afternoon it was still frigid and yet Abby still swam for half an hour until I called it quits. Her teeth were chattering, she was shivering and covered in goose bumps, but continued to argue for more time in the pool. Crazy.


3 comments:

L Sass said...

OMG--the instructions on the box are priceless!

I miss the kiddy pool! My mom used to set up the bench from our picnic table to use as a "diving board." Tres glamorous.

darlene said...

whens da pool party?

Shan said...

Laurel - I know aren't they ridiculous? If my Mom had a blog she'd tell you the story about how she did the same thing with our picnic table until my brother walked backwards off the end and put his teeth through his lip.

Anytime Darlene, anytime!