It is the middle of the three day Labor Day weekend and today is the pool day for the Miller and Grice kids. I did not get very good sleep last night as Liesl came into our bed having had a “bad night.” We don’t know what she meant and she did not seem to want to elaborate. Something about being scared and crying but she was not clear if she had had a bad dream or what. So she climbed into our bed, which is not a king, which meant that there was not enough room for me to do my necessarily turning or to keep myself cool so I was overheated and my back hurt and I basically never fell asleep. So only an hour or two of sleep all night for me.
The Grices came over on the early side this morning and Dominica and Francesca went out shopping for a few hours while I sat outside and watched the four little kids in the pool. It was a really hot day and pretty much I could do nothing but sit and try not to pass out in a chair. There was no breeze at all so even though it was only in the mid nineties it was too hot to do anything at all. The humidity was really high too.
Liesl is getting better and better at swimming now. This was her first time, I think, alone in the pool with her cousins without her floaties and she did really well. She did not need anyone to help her all day and they swam for a really long time. She was jumping in and playing and swimming the whole time. She has gone from unable to swim to full swimming so quickly!
We did not do much today other than the swimming. The cousins stayed at the Tocco house until late afternoon and then went home so that everyone would have a chance to get some rest.
This evening we decided to just stay in. We had been planning on getting Subway for dinner, because I had promised Liesl that we would, but she wanted left over Chow Mein for dinner and that worked out well for us as Dominica and I were happy to just have some salad that we had available.
Dominica and I watched a bit of Modern Family this evening. Liesl has a fever and is not feeling so well so she climbed into bed and just watched the show with us. Luciana decided that she wanted to take a bath.
Luciana forgot to turn off the bath water and discovered that there was a leak in the overflow of the tub. Suddenly we heard Brittany downstairs yelling that water was coming through the ceiling. We ran into the bathroom but Luciana had not spilled any water, everything was fine in there. But it was spilling inside the wall from the overflow of the tub. A lot of water was in the wall.
So that made for a very dramatic evening.