Summer: Wed., 8/16

Today was a pretty perfect summer day. I tried to get L&G to go to the zoo this morning, but they just wanted to play at home, which was fine. I'm not sure what the context was, but they both packed their small Hello Kitty suitcases full of socks and tights, and they were both wearing tights with socks over them and were sliding around the house.

Then Lucia said she really really wanted to make puffy slime (which we'd made once during the winter), so we went to Target to buy shaving cream and Elmer's glue. They also asked if they could buy a little box of blind bag Shopkins, with Lucia making grand promises of doing extra math workbook pages, and they were so excited when I said yes. (And she did do the math pages, as soon as we got home.) The new Shopkins are as tiny and cute as ever.

This purchase rekindled their love of Shopkins, which had waned for a while, and they got out ALL their Shopkins after that (which are now carpeting the floor of the living room). We had lunch, then we went to the porch to make the slime, which was super fun. It's a great result. When it was made, they brought out their Shopkins, sending them on adventures into the puffy slime.

At three, we headed to the pool with Splashlings. We'd arranged to meet up with one of Greta's friends, who's moving tomorrow to CA with her family--we brought her a pack of Splashlings as a going-away present, and the three girls had a blast playing together with their mermaids.

Then--finally--L&G decided they were ready to take their deep-water tests! I've asked them every time we go to the pool if they want to take the test (passing it allows them to go on the water slides), but they always say they don't want to. But today, when their friend asked if they wanted to go on the water slides with her, then assured them the test was easy when they said they hadn't taken it, they decided they were ready. And they both passed, yay. They were both so proud and excited. "I can't believe this is happening!!" they kept saying as they went on the slides.

They didn't want to take off their deep-water certification ankle bracelets and wore them to bed.

We also read some Heidi Heckelbeck today. I made turkey meatloaf and corn casserole for dinner. They watched an Elena episode. I had a drink with some neighbors after bedtime. Now Andrew and I are going to watch an episode of Silicon Valley. Summer.



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