I am so tired of the rain.  I don’t know if you have seen, but it has rained every single day here in Dallas.  And not just a shower, it has been pouring. 

Needless to say, Isabel’s swimming lessons have been cancelled the past 2 days.  She is really bummed!  Tonight is supposed to be parents night where they show off what they have learned but it is supposed to rain again all day.  And she is really liking the lessons.  This is the first year that she is in the water without me and she is doing great.  I may have to sign her up for lessons again later in the summer.

Zaida and I took the kids to the new fun pool in Carrollton yesterday.  It was crowded but not too crowded that you didn’t want to be there.  (Notice this is filed under rant before reading further )

I had 2 BIG issues:

1. WATCH YOUR CHILDREN!!!!  There was a little girl who kept climbing up one of the slides so the other kids could not slide down.  The life guards told her at least 7 different times over about a 30 minute span to stop climbing up the slides.  Not once did I see a parent any where near the little girl either watching her or telling her to stop.  She was younger than Isabel.  I just don’t understand how parents can be so irresponsible.  Not so much for not stopping her from doing it but for not watching thier children in the water!  I freak out when Isabel is out of my sight for even a few seconds in the water much less 30 minutes.  So maybe the parent was watching - why not tell your child to stop climbing up the slide?

2. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN SOME MANNERS!  I know it is not easy to teach manners to a young child and they will not get it right all the time.  We were in line at the larger slide patiently waiting our turn.  I was holding Tori and standing with Isabel and Bella.  SEVEN kids cut in front of us within about 2 minutes.  I even said hey guys, the line is back there and only 1 of them moved.  The others just looked at me and then turned around.  I can understand if the kids were 3 or so but these were older kids.  And then the girls wanted to go again and I told them make sure you wait in line and wait for your turn.  This mom was standing next to us and said “ya, my son just keeps walking straight up to the front and doesn’t wait”.  But did she stop him from doing it? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!  He kept on doing it over and over.  And she didn’t care!  I just don’t get it!!!

Ok, I got it out!!  End of rant.

Happy Monday!

Here are a few pictures of the girls playing in the inflatable pool in the backyard.

Ricardo is teaching me how to do things with this site. This mornings lesson was how to resize and upload pictures. This one I did all by myself!!

Isabel has been taking swimming lessons this week at the city pool.  The lessons are at 6 and it is still VERY hot outside.  The city built a great new swim park for kids over the winter that is part of the main swimming pools.  It is very neat with lots of slides and water sprays for the kids to play with.  It even has a lazy river - very small lazy river but its there none the less.  I took the girls yesterday before Isabel’s lesson and Tori loved the water.  I wasn’t sure how she would react since she is not fond of cold water but she did great.  It was so much better hanging out in the water than sweating in the shade!   I think I may do that again today before class.