June 24, 2011

Whether in NC or IL, our days are starting early.  Instead of tornadoes, I'm chalking this one up to kid excitement.  Gayle's two kids and ours were on the trampoline at 7 am, sharp.

While Katie and Bradley went to their last day at music camp, we spent an hour or two at the Winston Salem Children’s Museum.  They have a new vacuum display where you can send scarves through a series of 4-inch clear pipes. 

Gerry:  I could make one of those.

Afterward, we watched Katie and Bradley at their end-of-the-week concert.  The theme was “Cowboys” so we felt right at home.

Tiny Lindsay & Tiny Karl at the Children's Museum

The afternoon was spent at the local swimming pool.  It turns out that Billy is the best and worst kind of swimmer – brave, reckless and overconfident.  He apparently did not notice that he was wearing a life jacket while lake-swimming in Illinois.  Consequently he walked right up to the edge of the pool and jumped in.  If you were wondering, Gayle is super-fast with the emergency drowning rescue.  From that moment forward, we had several life-guards and mothers watching Billy’s every move.  When he decided to go off the diving board, all I could do was let him and pray.

Lindsay honed her diving skills and has become quite a swimmer.  She and Katie had a great time playing the Color Game.  She still has water in her ears from Illinois, though.

Lindsay:  My ears still hurt.

Me:  You probably have water in them.  I’ll put some alcohol in them when we get home.

Lindsay:  How is beer going to help my ears?

Bradley - age 4

Katie - age 6

Gerry and Karl stayed home and did minor repairs on Gayle’s house.  Items fixed by Gerry and Karl include rehanging a gutter, tightening the bathroom towel racks, and leveling the dishwasher so that it now closes.  When we came home from the pool, they were sitting in the porch swing, reading.  I suspect they were happy to putter around.