The Dennett Daze: October 2008

Okay, so if you haven't heard from the girls already, THE POOL IS DONE!!! They plastered it on Wednesday (Trudi's birthday) and put the hose in to start filling it when they finished. About 10 hours later, we turned all four of the hoses off (not that we were too anxious that one hose couldn't keep up with the expectations or anything like that) and boy were the girls surprised when they got up the next morning to find the pool completely filled. Brayden didn't give a lot of attention to outside that morning, but when he got home from school that day, and a few of us were out hanging around the pool, he came out to investigate. Boy the little sparkle and smirk on his face read, "So,...that's what we've been working on all this time!" He started trying to take off his shirt and unfortunately, his mom shut down the great idea to jump in. It didn't last long when a little later, he sees his sisters out wading in the shallow part. He came out and requested again. I offered to take off his shoes and sock so he could wade a little bit. I helped him into the water and the shock of the cold water hit him. He was scrambling to get out of there!

Needless to say, the wading of the other kids turned into, "Oops! I fell in Mom!" They ended up having a great time in the 68 degree water. What kind of parent would allow such behavior? Guess that confesses our parenting skills. We even allowed them to get back in the next day and the day after that. It is getting a tid bit warmer each day. The water was at 72 degrees today.

We still have to brush the pool 3x's a day which makes me think that I am growing some new muscles. It does make me feel old to see how much my body hurts from such a little thing.

We will be legal to have the kids out swimming on Friday. They did say that once the water is clean and clear from brushing it that they could get in, but I figured it looks clean and clear before they get in, just 'cause they stir up the plaster dust is a minor little detail the kids like me to overlook. The kids can't wait to have friends and family over to swim. I can't wait to be able to warm it up a little for the wimpier ones of us to use it finally. -- FRIDAY!!