St. Louis Pool Party

Saturday in St. Louis was Pool Party Day. My friends arranged for an extra life guard at their neighborhood pool, and reserved the clubhouse so we’d have a gathering place. Mikaela spent much of the day going off the diving board over and over (and over and over) again. I took Jonathan in the baby pool for a bit, and then we played in the shallow part of the big pool. Jonathan liked walking up and down the steps into the water.

We took a swimming break to have lunch at the clubhouse, after which I decided Jonathan had been out in the sun/heat enough and I kept him in for a nap. He did NOT want to sleep – I think he just didn’t want to miss anything – but he finally crashed. He crashed so hard that he continued to sleep as I moved him from the clubhouse to the car, and then from the car to the crib in our hotel room. When he finally fell asleep, he revelled in that nap!

Meanwhile, Mikaela headed back out to the pool for more swimming. She got a piggyback ride from her friend Maddy and showed off her swimming skills by swimming the length of the pool. We packed it in at the pool at around 4 p.m., and (as I mentioned above) we headed back to the hotel to relax in the cool room for a couple of hours before reconvening for dinner. After getting some good rest and a change into clean and dry clothes, we headed back to have pizza with the gang. The kids played some more after dinner, until I dragged them away to go back to the hotel at about 8:45 p.m.

I got everyone asleep by 10 p.m. again, then spent some time getting things picked up and organized so that we could check out in the morning and head to the zoo (hopefully before it got too oppressively hot).