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Baby bum

Long weekends with a Monday off are great, better in some ways than having a Friday off, I think.  But I’m not the one going to work, so what do I know?  We went over to the Hartmans for lunch and came back around 3.  Both kids took little naps, Betsy’s was shorter of course.  We got her up and filled up the little pool.  I did some trimming in the back while she played in the pool and Ben smoked a cigar.  How that can be enjoyable in warm weather in a mystery to me!  She pooped in her suit and so after cleaning everything and everyone up she spent some time in the nude.  In all I think she played in the pool for close to an hour.

Tonight Carson and I had a stand off over one single green pea.  He refused to try one and since I’d told him he had to we sat there through tears and screams for a good while.  I ended up telling him that it was either the pea or bed.  He chose bed.  Soon after putting him down Betsy, who’d been in bed a while, started to cry.  After giving her some tylenol and rocking her a little I came downstairs and helped Ben clean up some stuff in the yard.  Then Carson started to cry, and Betsy cried on and off for a while until finally everyone decided to go to sleep for good.  It was a rough end to an otherwise very enjoyable day.