Fun in the pool and fun making s’mores
We had a lot of fun with our girls this weekend. On Saturday, we setup Esther’s pool and let her splash in it for the first time this year. She had fun, even though the water was still cold.
Esther had fun watching the pool fill up, once Papa told her that it was “just like the bathtub”.
Papa had to help Esther climb up the slide. It was very slippery, since someone put soap on it last year.
As you can see from Esther’s expression, it was a cold splash at the bottom!
Tonight, after cooking steak on the grill, we took the girls outside for some s’mores. Esther had fun helping Momma with the marshmallows. She also knows all about grill safety: she loudly told Katya “Hot, Katya! Hot! Go around and around and around!” This was while I was still holding Katya.
Katya watched the proceedings from her camp chair. She jumped up and down it. She thinks she’s pretty big stuff now that she can climb into the chair by herself and stand up in it.
Papa carefully put her chair in the grass so she’d have a soft landing when she dumped it. (Which she did twice. But she emerged completely unscathed each time.)
Of course, she can barely see over the back of the chair when she pulls herself up. But that doesn’t bother her one bit. If she needs to, she’ll pull down on the chair back, so she can see over.
