Each day is an adventure...

I know that sounds lame as a title for this post...but it really is, isn't it?? Unless you sit in your house all cooped up...then maybe its not so adventurous...but I know taking three children anywhere can cause me to hyperventilate at times...just like an adventure of climbing Mt Kilamanjaro something really tall. Or jumping out of an airplane. Yes....I compare outing with my children to death-defying feats. Ü

So...today's adventure was a trip to the Randol Mill Family Aquatic Center. It was so rad! How have I lived here for 3 summers and never gone there! Seriously!

Earlier in the week, some friends headed over there and we couldn't make it...but their kids said it was the best day of summer they have had...after that raving review, I couldn't wait to take my girls there. I almost didnt! I almost chickened out and took them to the baby splash park we have in our town...but I could SEE the joy on Bella's face, so I sucked it up and packed our bags and we hung out for 2 1/2 hours....just me and them.

And it was FUN. It's the kind of place that is small enough where I felt comfortable sending them off to play...while watching from the sidelines with Jax. Then also sending them off in different directions....

To ride this beauty....it was a "big" waterslide in my girlies eyes....

Bella rode it almost the ENTIRE time we were there...she'd keep coming back over to me and asking to ride it again and again, I finally had to tell her "just GO....and keeping GOING".

Of course, this girl was ticked that she wasn't tall enough to go down the slide. She surprised me (haha) by throwing a little fit...I didnt think chicken little would have it in her to go down a big old slide like that.

Don't let the smile fool ya...

Jax and I made it up to her, tho...we took her around the lazy river over and over again...lucky girl.

It's so nice when children act right and everyone can have fun....thanks, Jax...you rock, little dude.

We survived! (oh my gosh, I sound so dramatic...but you don't understand, I was actually scared!) And if we didnt all have little sunburns, we'd probably go back tomorrow (the last week day its open, sad!). But we have other things planned to make Bella's last week of freedom fun-digity.

How'd this picture get on here?

Silly phone...

Yes, you'll have to ignore the fuzzy pictures...I didnt have the heart to tote my fancy-schmancy camera all over creation...but James and I got new phones and I can actually take/send pictures!! It's a mini-miracle!

Do you have the time to listen to me rhyme?

When will the last day of summer be....
When will the leaves start to fall from the trees...
When will jackets be worn and swimsuits stored....
When will no swimming make my kiddos nice and bored...
When will cute little froggies hibernate...
When will the heat be gone so we can celebrate...
When will that cool breeze once again touch our face...
When will we smell fires burning in the fireplace...When Mother Nature says the time is right...
When Good Mother Earth takes the turn to the light...
When the waters get cold...
When the child says so...

"Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy.....I want to go swiiiiiiimmmmiiinnng."

One thing I am determined to do this summer is to have more pool time. I'm not that big on swimming...truthfully, it's fun and relaxing, but it's a bit of a hassle. The getting ready, getting in, making sure no one drowns, the splashing, the bugs, the screaming when getting out, the crying when having to go inside = one big headache. I know it just comes down to me not being so tightly wound, which has become too much the norm lately.
James, on the other hand, is totally rad at making sure the girls get pool time. When I work at night, he takes them out and lets them swim while he reads or makes dinner (we bbq alot lately, due to this). We should really put the girls in a swim class to learn how to actually swim. But since we are lazy Ü we are trying to do it ourselves...haha. That's what I've been doing all year, actually...when one or the other as fallen in the pool...SWIM, baby girl, SWIM. haha.

Bella loves her goggles....they help her to "try and find Spongebob" underwater (you know, since he lives in a pineapple under the sea....which is the only part of Spongebob I let my kids watch, the beginning....as I try and turn the channel to another, less annoying, station).

James properly adjusted and spit (yes, spit, yuck) into her glasses to make sure they didn't fog up...of course, it didn't help much and she'd surface with them 1/2 filled with water. lol.

My goal is to have this water-baby swimming by the middle of summer. I know she can do it (since she fell in the pool last month and kept her head above water until I could reach in and pull her out...haha...I told you it was my method) she's just fond of the phrase "I can't" whenever I take her floaties off and let her go.

See...I'm in the pool! Not just snapping pictures by the way-side. I'm tellin' ya...we will all be a bunch of waterlogged folks by fall!