2nd Annual Swimming in the Dining Room Party

Last week it was so cold that if you went outside, your eyeballs froze, fell out of their sockets, fell onto the sidewalk and shattered.

It was so cold the spit in your mouth froze.

It was so cold I considered the benefits of growing a beard.

It was so cold they canceled school in Milwaukee.

I told the girls that if they canceled school for two days in a row, I would break out the wading pool and they could swim for an afternoon, because there's nothing like being cooped up in a small space with little kids against your will.

There are requirements for holding a swimming party in your apartment:

• You must own 1 wading pool, 1 bucket, and 15 old towels.
• It is nice if your apartment runs on the warm side, like 78 degrees.
• You must have already lost your deposit.
• You must have lost about 60% of your sanity.

and there you go.


The girls testing out the water and complaining that it's too warm!


Waiting for the water to cool down. . .


oooohs and aaaahhhhhs




Hailey needed music on, so it turned into a swimmingslashdance party. She's grooving to the "Be Good Tanyas," I think.

Jamming.


They stayed in there for three hours.




And Hailey quietly taught Nora about the body for the rest of the afternoon.

The only hiccup was that after they were finished, I couldn't remember how I had drained the pool last time. It took me a while to figure out that it is the same way I filled it- bucket by bucket.