Brick

Yes, I am a poor sport.

Abe and I started taking "Parent and Tot" swimming lessons this week. Yesterday was a lot of fun (even though it was raining). We sang songs like the "hokey pokey", let the kids play with some pool toys and helped them kick their legs. Today the teacher said "Ok, we are going to do underwater submission." She demonstrated with a doll how to count 1, 2, 3! and dunk your baby under. I refused to do it and I was the only one. There are 10 in the class. I was rather shocked that all the other parents just did it. Most of the babies came up crying. Abe happily splashed in my arms while we looked on at the screaming babies getting dunked 3 more times.

Rain

Checking the weather, here is my 10 day forecast:

T-storms
T-storms
T-storms
T-storms
T-storms
showers
showers
T-storms
T-storms
T-storms

This has been going on for the past month! I am usually not one to complain about the weather but mix 4 kids and summertime with this rain and I am going crazy.

Luckily, the rain is not continuous so there are actually long periods each day where it is not raining.
Unluckily, the rain starts pretty quickly.
Like today when we went to the pool and were there for about 20 minutes when a t-storm started and so the pool threw everyone out.
Luckily, the rain stops pretty quickly.
Unluckily, the rain is usually so hard that it is a flash flood and so even when it stops the ground is soaked. My backyard is flooded. A few of the local 4th of July activities are being canceled because the fields/parks are flooded as well.