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weekend, as usual
Aug. 27th, 2007 02:27 pmAnother fun weekend at the cottage. A couple of Isaac's preschool friends came out and all the kids had a blast, even though one of them had fractured her wrist the day before and was in a cast. So her dad was pretty paranoid about the cast getting wet in the lake, or about her hurting it with all the rough-housing that the kids were doing. But we all still managed to have plenty of fun, and mom and I even managed a few minutes of actual conversation with the dad -- albeit it was pretty much all about parenting and kids, heh, but that's life.
I'm really hoping we can get a few more kids out to the cottage next weekend and maybe the next few weekends to come, before the weather turns too cold. Isaac has fun out there when it's just him and Ruthie, but he does/would have SO much more fun with other kids his age too.
It's funny to observe how different Isaac and Ruthie are about some things too. For basically the entire summer we've been working on Isaac to get more comfortable in the water and not freak out when it comes near his face, and so forth. He's finally now at the point where he'll get all the way into the water willingly, and sometimes will even submerge his entire body, except for his head. And he has shown some tentative beginnings of willingness to think about maybe giving consideration to the idea of maybe trying to put his head/face in the water. We've been gently encouraging him and so forth. So on Saturday, it was a VERY hot humid sticky day, and we finally all get to the cottage all sweaty and hot, and we all immediately go and get into the lake to cool off. And Ruthie immediately wades out until the water is chest-high on her, and starts sticking her face into it!! LOL!! She was trying to drink the lake water, or who knows what, but she thought it was hilarious and kept doing it over and over. It was so funny. My mom kept saying "it's like night and day." It took SO long at first to get Isaac to even put his feet in the water, let alone walk into it and splash around and have fun. Whereas Ruthie just had to take one look, and now will plunge on in without any hesitation. We really have to watch her very closely when she's in there, because she's fearless! So interesting how different two kids can be.
( coming back from the cottage can be painful )
Fun times, people. Anyway, uh, so that's my weekend. whee.
I'm really hoping we can get a few more kids out to the cottage next weekend and maybe the next few weekends to come, before the weather turns too cold. Isaac has fun out there when it's just him and Ruthie, but he does/would have SO much more fun with other kids his age too.
It's funny to observe how different Isaac and Ruthie are about some things too. For basically the entire summer we've been working on Isaac to get more comfortable in the water and not freak out when it comes near his face, and so forth. He's finally now at the point where he'll get all the way into the water willingly, and sometimes will even submerge his entire body, except for his head. And he has shown some tentative beginnings of willingness to think about maybe giving consideration to the idea of maybe trying to put his head/face in the water. We've been gently encouraging him and so forth. So on Saturday, it was a VERY hot humid sticky day, and we finally all get to the cottage all sweaty and hot, and we all immediately go and get into the lake to cool off. And Ruthie immediately wades out until the water is chest-high on her, and starts sticking her face into it!! LOL!! She was trying to drink the lake water, or who knows what, but she thought it was hilarious and kept doing it over and over. It was so funny. My mom kept saying "it's like night and day." It took SO long at first to get Isaac to even put his feet in the water, let alone walk into it and splash around and have fun. Whereas Ruthie just had to take one look, and now will plunge on in without any hesitation. We really have to watch her very closely when she's in there, because she's fearless! So interesting how different two kids can be.
( coming back from the cottage can be painful )
Fun times, people. Anyway, uh, so that's my weekend. whee.
