A Long One

Sunday was great (until my typical end of the weekend-induced sadness kicked in around 4 or 5). It was warm, I ate pineapples and made sweet tea, and Paige was SO pumped when we FINALLY let her break out the Slip n' Slide. She ran for her swimsuit, picked the awesome yellow one, but changed it about 10 minutes later.
When she actually saw how the Slip n' Slide is done though, she got nervous and wouldn't try. For a good half hour Jess was the only one using it, while we watched, jealous(me anyway), from the porch swing.He mowed the grass right before, and was covered in it the entire time.
Eventually Paige decided she'd let Jess push her through once. She seemed excited but when she got soaked at the end she came and hid by me and kept saying "no thank you" when Jess tried to lure her back over.
After a while she decided to try walking along it, letting the water spray her. Then she was willing to push her doll along it.
THEN she decided to slide herself along using her arms, but only slowly.
Finally she'd let Jess push her along a little bit faster.
She was really having fun after a while.
Maybe by the end of the summer she'll be doing a proper slide with a running start.

Cason hid near me most of the time, telling Jess "no" if he asked if he wanted to try. But this is how sweet he was.
Gradually he ventured toward the grass to watch and cheer.
A minute later I looked over to see him sans trunks for some reason.
Later that night Paige put on a pretty dress, so I took a few pictures of them in the backyard.
That inspired her to have one heck of a photo shoot. It lasted forever. She wanted all sorts of different poses, and different combinations of family members.
Even fake angry shots.
After a while it was getting dark, and the pictures were getting to be pretty odd. Ha. Pictures of all of us using the camera timer, with Cason and Paige posing with the toy garden tools Grammy got them. But we humored her.
Anyway, today we picked Jess up for lunch and Paige wanted to have a picnic. Jess only gets a half hour with the summer schedule so we went to a park near his work. Nothing but gravel and weeds, but the play stuff was actually kind of cool. Lots of the old stuff like they had when we were little.
The kids loved it. Cason refused to eat his lunch at the table first, and kept trying to run to play. So I had to trap him in the car with me while Jess and Paige had a picnic. He just stared out the window at the playground.
He didn't mind too much. They're still really excited about the Pilot. They ask to play in it like every day. Crazies.
Tonight was Jess' turn to read books at bedtime. So cute.
Cason's getting a little more into it these days. He especially likes this Dinosaur book from Aunt Mollie and Uncle Tim.
Paige continues to love bedtime, and tries to stay awake for as long as possible.