unlike last year, it was beautiful today and warm - quickly approaching 80. all of the kids were given a choice of color for their t-shirt this year and madelyn choose yellow. the idea was for the kids to line up by color so that it would look like a marching rainbow. however, the second we hit the parade route it was just a mass of kids.
the boys were there to see us at the start of the parade route. and they got a ton of candy!
it was kind of neat to walk down the middle of main street. there were a lot of people out to watch the parade. madelyn said that there were a lot more than last year. i think the weather helped.
we had lunch at home before heading to the pool! it opens for the year today and we are super excited! there are several new families in the neighborhood and the pool was hopping with kids. usually our kids are the only ones in there even though all of the deck chairs are full so this was a fun change. of course i did a lot more head counts than i normally would have done (but i have always been pretty cautious around water). what a difference a year makes. madelyn is like a fish and doesn't look awkward swimming around any more. the boys still have work to do on swimming, but they are very comfortable in the water and move around very freely. manning was having no part of the pool. he wouldn't even take off his shoes! i did finally convince him to sit in a deck chair. he was a gigantic grump almost the entire time. he was even hitting me while telling me no (about everything) so i told him "so sad" and sat him on a chair farther away from me, saying that he could come back when he was done hitting. he sat there for a few minutes and then calmly walked over, hit me and then walked back to the chair to sit by himself some more. he might not be a "biter" but he is turning into quite the little "hitter."
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