May 27

Today we continued our Memorial Day/Beginning of Summer celebration. After church and naps (for the kids, not for us, unfortunately. Daisy has been having a hard time sleeping the past few nights.), we visited our neighborhood pool for the first time.

Since our neighborhood is between forty and forty-five years old, we were nervous that the pool wouldn't live up to our expectations. After all, we did come from a pretty new subdivision with not one, but two neighborhood pools. Luckily, the new pool exceeded our hopes.  It has a kiddie pool, a big pool, lap lanes, a diving board, and fountain and a fun sprinkler/wading area. Plus, the pool area also contains 3 Weber grills for cookouts and a swingset. Fun, fun, FUN!

Caleb practiced his kicking on the edge of the kiddie pool.

Daisy was entranced by all of the sights and sounds of the pool.

Doesn't she look sweet? She didn't even wear a suit - just a swim shirt and her swim diaper. Have I mentioned that we even do cloth swim diapers? We do. The sad thing is that today Daisy wore the same diaper that she wore here, when she was four months old. It's size small, for 6-15 pound children. Not only does it still fit perfectly, but it's a little big. 

*sigh*

Even worse? The pool chemicals bleached the thing! It was adorable, with brightly colored polka dots in pink, orange,  yellow, green, blue... Now you can only see faded pink and orange dots. Not only am I annoyed that a darling diaper is now not-so-cute, but I'm also concerned about what those chemicals could be doing to my children...

But they had so much fun that I can't allow myself to stew too much. Pool chemicals won't kill them, right?

See? Fun, fun, fun, even while your diaper is being bleached.

SPLASH!