Joe is back

Joe is back. Yippee. Poor Talan was signing to the lifeguard today at the Kroc Center "daddy works". :) The lifeguard had no idea what Talan was saying/signing and as I was being whipped around the lazy river I couldn't interpret. We had so much fun today at the Cove. The boys love the "active" pool where they both jumped in a million times. We also went back and forth over and over. I even got to throw Mason on the count of three high into the water. They have so much more confidence. We played ring-around-the-rosy and went under water for the fall down part. Talan wasn't wild about that but Mason loved it. We did spend some time in the hot pool. I also, finally, went down the big slide although I got in trouble for leaving my kids unattended. Whatever! This was the first time the boys had a positive reaction to the lazy river so I was very pleasantly surprised. Talan just stood and watched, he enjoyed standing on top of the water sprays changing it up for the people floating by.
I was positive we were going to take a nap afterwards but that never happened as the movie "monster house" was on and they got very engaged with that (previously they had only seen it at Mason Paul's house). Then Joe came home and the prospect of a nap was over. At least, I thought, they'd go to bed early. Nope! Talan is right next to me playing with plastic ice cream and cones and a scooper. He isn't getting real dessert tonight as he did not eat his dinner. So sad. Consequences are tough sometimes! :) I am going to pretend to go to bed to get him to sleep. Wish me luck. :)