New wading pool
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selenite mentioned in a recent post, we finally got a wading pool for the kids, hampered by most stores not having them anymore. Now that it's finally cool enough to play outside without heatstroke, they have long-sleeved parkas on sale. But he got one. And on the way home, it got cloudy and windy and started raining.
Well, this morning I took the kids out to play, and pulled it out of Shylock, our shed. I checked the temp before we went out - weather.com said it was 84 degrees, felt like 89. Well, it was mostly cloudy out, gentle breeze, warm but with that part of the yard in shade. So it worked out pretty well. They were chilled when I brought them in, but not badly, and they were enjoying themselves.
The pool is purple, and looks like an elephant with his trunk sticking up in the middle of the pool - and the hose goes under the pool and up through the trunk to put water in the pool, so the filling-the-pool becomes part of the fun play time. I have decided that the elephant's name is Claude. Because it just is.
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They both enjoyed the process very much. For Maggie I had one of two swimsuits her Grandma Maggie gave her back in Redondo Beach. Nice to finally get some use out of them. She liked it. For Jamie I had some old swim diapers from when Brendan was that small. They enjoyed the filling process, and had fun splashing. I noticed Jamie is far less inhibited about getting wet than Maggie is. Jamie got out of the pool a couple times but got back in.
The swim diapers weren't being very useful, though. Maggie's one piece was much more sensible. Several times Jamie ended up bending over splashing in the water directly in FRONT of the elephant's trunk, so that the curve of the water was pouring right into the back of the swim diapers. Halfway through their play Maggie had to go potty, so I took her inside, and when I came right back out Jamie'd gotten out of the pool and come over to the patio area. The diaper was awfully full of water, so I just took it off of him. I figure he's 21 months old (Today!), it's in our own fenced back yard, on a weekday, and there's no two-story houses adjacent to us, he can be nude. No pics of that part, though. Maggie came back out and I helped her with her suit, and they played some more. Then Jamie peed in the pool, and I figured yep, that's the sign that it's time to take them out, go inside and wash and dress them.
selenite mentioned in a recent post, we finally got a wading pool for the kids, hampered by most stores not having them anymore. Now that it's finally cool enough to play outside without heatstroke, they have long-sleeved parkas on sale. But he got one. And on the way home, it got cloudy and windy and started raining. Well, this morning I took the kids out to play, and pulled it out of Shylock, our shed. I checked the temp before we went out - weather.com said it was 84 degrees, felt like 89. Well, it was mostly cloudy out, gentle breeze, warm but with that part of the yard in shade. So it worked out pretty well. They were chilled when I brought them in, but not badly, and they were enjoying themselves.
The pool is purple, and looks like an elephant with his trunk sticking up in the middle of the pool - and the hose goes under the pool and up through the trunk to put water in the pool, so the filling-the-pool becomes part of the fun play time. I have decided that the elephant's name is Claude. Because it just is.
The gallery with all the pictures starts here.
They both enjoyed the process very much. For Maggie I had one of two swimsuits her Grandma Maggie gave her back in Redondo Beach. Nice to finally get some use out of them. She liked it. For Jamie I had some old swim diapers from when Brendan was that small. They enjoyed the filling process, and had fun splashing. I noticed Jamie is far less inhibited about getting wet than Maggie is. Jamie got out of the pool a couple times but got back in.
The swim diapers weren't being very useful, though. Maggie's one piece was much more sensible. Several times Jamie ended up bending over splashing in the water directly in FRONT of the elephant's trunk, so that the curve of the water was pouring right into the back of the swim diapers. Halfway through their play Maggie had to go potty, so I took her inside, and when I came right back out Jamie'd gotten out of the pool and come over to the patio area. The diaper was awfully full of water, so I just took it off of him. I figure he's 21 months old (Today!), it's in our own fenced back yard, on a weekday, and there's no two-story houses adjacent to us, he can be nude. No pics of that part, though. Maggie came back out and I helped her with her suit, and they played some more. Then Jamie peed in the pool, and I figured yep, that's the sign that it's time to take them out, go inside and wash and dress them.
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Oh, frabjous joy!
Date: 2005-09-15 06:43 pm (UTC)I seem to recall pictures of a toddler in a new pool, with her Granddad pouring a sand-pail of water over her. Same haircut!
Re: Oh, frabjous joy!
Date: 2005-09-15 07:46 pm (UTC)Do you still have those pictures? Scan one and put it up?
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