After work yesterday Chris decided that he was ready to get in the pool and the kids jumped at a chance to be in the water with their Dad. Fun was had by all and even Dylan was getting into it. He has started jumping into the water from the ladder. I think he has finally learned to hold his breath so that he doesn't swallow water when he goes under. Then last night Chris started throwing him in the air and it was pretty cool to watch.
Then Tawny wanted Dad to throw her. She is a little big to be throwing around anymore lol. But he tried anyway. This picture looks pretty funny. I am glad I was able to get him throwing the kids around.
Of course Caris had to get in on the fun too.
Dakota did not want to participate last night so it was just Dad the girls, and Dylan. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Matlock for the pool. It has been the life saver this summer. It has been good to have so that the kids can go out and cool off and be out of my hair so I stay sane. Caris has been telling me for the past two week how long until school starts. Now last year I would be chomping at the bit to get them back in school and this year they are starting a week earlier and I am not in such a big hurry to send them back. Yes we have had out days where they have gotten on my last nerve. But we have had more fun than not this summer.
When school starts this year it will be just Dylan and I for one more year and then he will start kindergarten. I am not sure what I will do once I don't have any kids at home during the school hours. Ever since Grandma Matlock has been living with us we have been working on the kids to help them take over some of the responsibility of cleaning the house. Besides they are the ones that make a mess of it to begin with. So we are working on chore lists and just the other day I was listening to something and I am going to change the chore list to their job list. Then hopefully they will take a little more pride in the job that they do and once they are out in the world with a real job they will know how to behave and how to make a good impression with the work that they do.
My girls........aren't they beautiful. Tawny has learned a new way that she likes to have her hair. So I guess she and Shalynn will be braiding her hair every night that she has a shower before she goes to bed. She said the only problem with it is that it takes forever to undo all the braids.
I do have to say that I happen to like it and maybe she will actually keep her hair down some of the time instead of putting it up in a ponytail all the time.
