JCC Members Appreciation Party

The JCC Members Appreciation Party was our first opportunity this summer to get Jonathan out into the pool. He pretty much picked up right where he left off last year. He has a blast splashing around the Froggy Pool. He’s at least as big a fan of the little froggy water slide as Mikaela was, walking up the stairs and sliding down until he was ready to drop from exhaustion. He was so wiped out, Miriam and Jonathan left a bit early and left Aaron and Mikaela to keep playing at the pool.

Meanwhile, Mikaela was indulging her own waterslide obsession. After several tries, she finally convinced the lifeguards that she was big enough for the regular water slides. She didn’t complain even once about the long, steep, stairs she had to climb or the sometimes-long line for her turn — she was in heaven going down both the straight fast and slow curvy slides over and over and over again. She also splashed around a bit in the froggy pool, playing with cousin Samantha and Grandma Marcia. And she found a friend from camp to play with in the shallow part of the big pool. But those were always just brief diversions before she headed back to the water slides.

And who can blame her? Those slides are FUN. She went down them with Cousin Margo at first, and eventually even Uncle Matt joined in the slide brigade. When we finally headed home, Mikaela was tired and thirsty. Luckily, we’d made a Fourth of July weekend treat the day before, and we had homemade fresh strawberry ice cream waiting for us when we got home.