Pool time and broken cameras ...

Well, I was right, after posting twice on Sunday I didn't post anything until now. I guess that is the way things go sometimes. It hasn't been that busy a week really. Monday was spent mostly around the house with a few errands out to do things. This post will probably be a bit disjointed, but hey, I am posting ;).

Tuesday we went to Lifetime Fitness so I could exercise and then take the three younger kids to the pool. I went out of my way to take some pictures and short videos with "the small camera" as we tend to call it here. I am not a big fan of this camera, but I took a number of pictures anyway. To my horror, something happened to it in the swim bag after our trip. The camera won't open or close all of the way anymore. My lovely wife is going to use this as an excuse to purchase another small camera, one with a few more features than this one. I will "mess with" it to see what I can do with it, but I don't have high hopes.

These pictures show how much fun the three of them can have together. This pool has a very nice area for toddlers as it has a very slow, gradual grade into the water giving plenty of shallow space to walk and play. DS#3 loves it for that very reason. At our neighborhood pool he refuses to play in the kiddie pool because all of the older kids are in the big pool so he ends up playing on the steps.

Wednesday (yesterday) my sister-in-law came with my niece and nephew so the kids have been playing together ever since. Today we spent our time at Fiesta Texas and tomorrow we'll head back (with DS#1, he doesn't have camp tomorrow) to simply go to the waterpark. The big tale for today is that DS#3 does NOT like characters (those wonderful costumed folks) and a 6 ft. tall dog scared him to death, so the "Wiggles World" toddler area was suddenly not a place to be. Truly, he didn't recover much until later in the day and by then he was exhausted.