Suddenly Thursday

 I blinked, and it’s THURSDAY. The longest day of the year is behind us, and summer is trickling away. Well. I mean. It’s a really fast trickle.

Dorothy is the kiddo sans speedo and swim cap in the watermelon number (a suit she likes so much I bought 2). I LOVE coming a couple of minutes early to pick her up at swim team practice. The swim coach at our pool is an elementary school teacher, and he always plays games at the end of practice, which the kids adore. I think that’s part of the reason club swim lost its allure for Coop— he aged out of this coach’s group (he also coaches the club the kids have competed with with the winter), and o practice wasn’t fun anymore.

Coop is somewhere in the water polo milieu.

Minnie played with rocks outside Dorothy’s dance studio after our early AM ballet pick up, and he checked on them again when we picked Dorothy up that night (Dorothy came home for several hours in between). I love that she can make her own fun during our busy days.

She also got to go to Goldfish yesterday, and she got a ribbon— she was SO PROUD and told Ben is was for “going under the wawa.”

We dropped Coop at dive yesterday and went to a coffee shop. I also remembered my stroller, so hanging out on campus with a 36-pound toddler who wants to be carried in 90+ degrees was way more pleasant than usual, even though I spilled my coffee.

PRIDE COOKIE! And yes, yes we did wear matching outfits. Dorothy has a dress, too, but she had to go to tap/jazz/musical theater and couldn’t wear hers, so we will match again, probably on a non-dance day.

The funniest thing that has happened this week was on Monday night at the pool, where I took the girls after dance pick up to have a picnic by the tennis courts and swim.

Minnie and I swam in the “deep end” (the 4-foot water), and I was unhappily surprised when the lifeguards called a break at 7pm. Usually there are no adult swims between 6-9. We all had to get out, and it was CHILLY. (The weather, though dangerously dry, has been lovely. Really hot and sunny all day, but cooling off quick after 6– we have really loved it and are not taking it for granted)

The girls took a warm shower, but I was cold and didn’t want tog eat back in at 7:15.

Soooo, I told Minnie she could only play in the shallow end, but she FREAKED OUT, and we had to leave. As I was calmly suitcasing her out of the pool, she started screaming “OW OW OW OW.”  I said, “Minnie, stop yelling that. No one is hurting you.” And she screamed “YOU. YOU ARE HURTING ME.” Amazing— that’s a neat new trick, and I hope she pulls it out next time we have to make a sudden departure. **eye roll**