remember the earlier pics of the pool boy? See the pool? Well today we actually USED it!!!! Whoo hooo…..We opened it up about a month ago, and the day that we opened it the cold weather and the rain came. The rain stopped about a week ago, and it has gradually been getting warmer. Yesterday was warm enough, but the water was like ice. Today….we spent 2.5 hours in it!!!! Lovely.

Got all nice and hot and sweaty garage sale shopping first - the kids were BEGGING for ice cold swimming pool water by the time we were done.. Boy if I were pregnant or if I had a baby, I would have SCORED today at the garage sales..Seemed like every sale we hit had tons of baby stuff. The girls did ok with their allowances. Allison got a couple of dollhouse type sets, one playground set, and one sweetstreets thing that had two buildings, a car and TONS of accessories (accessories are a good thing). Meredith got a Big Mouth game and a smaller furby. Lydia got this weird thing that I can’t really describe. This big stuffed glob with a huge pouch and some babies that come out of eggs, and the lady that sold it to us said if we put batteries in there, the big stuffed glob will sing and talk to her babies. Lydia fell in love with the glob babies, and it was only $1 and her sisters had other stuff, plus this lady was practically begging us to buy something…I felt bad for her, so now we have a mechanical glob with three glob babies that we are going to have to buy batteries in order to see what it does.. Meredith and Allison both got a few outfits, that were very cute, and I got a few piano books … Our neighborhood is having their sale today and tomorrow. We went to the sale in the neighborhood across the street thinking we would hit our neighborhood on the way home, but the girls whimped out on me and didn’t want to stop at any more garage sales (once they spent all their money, they seemed to stop having fun!)….so we came home…Maybe we can hit a few in our neighborhood tomorrow morning on our way to Worlds of Fun for Eric’s company picnic…jealous?

I did notice that Lydia seems to be coming out of her “I see another person, I am going to get really really mad and grab my mom while screaming NO at them” stage as she was actually talking to people that she’s never even met! And of course Meredith was talking to anyone and everyone, once she got the Furby, it had to go with us everywhere so she could show anybody she met what she had bought. Oh, and at one sale she actually told the lady, “I know I can’t talk really well, and you can’t understand me that good, but its ok because I go to speech therapy and I am getting better” - the lady didn’t have a CLUE as to what she said, lol.