{"id":10195,"date":"2011-06-29T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/29\/water-play-day"},"modified":"2011-06-29T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T03:15:00","slug":"water-play-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2011\/06\/29\/water-play-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Play Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week is one of Lexi’s final weeks at our house before she starts her vacationing, summer camp and then on into her first grade plans. So with only 2 weeks of fun left for us around here (the 2 weeks have a 3 week recess in between), we’ve been trying to have themed-ish days. Monday we went to boonshoft children’s museum and my camera lived on it’s protected shelf at home. There’s something about taking a few kids (one being a baby) that allows minimal extra hands for pictures. Tuesday, Lexi spent the day with a friend. And today was Water Play Day. <\/p>\n

Thus the following\u00a0900 (kidding! No dying)\u00a0pictures are from our water play adventures in the good ole backyard of fun!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Happy baby cuteness – with teeth!<\/div>\n
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\u00a0O the fun, O the fun.
(THANKS MOM!!! They LOVE it!)<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Daddy adding hot water to the pool<\/div>\n
– go on with your hypothermia-preventing bad self, babe!<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Please forgive Rachael, she’s in an ugly smiling phase <\/div>\n
(that is if you can get her to sit still long enough AND look at the camera).<\/div>\n
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\u00a0sweet intimate friends.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0pretty much how most pics go of this child – she’s talking and not looking at the camera.<\/div>\n
(photographer hits her head)<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Watching Lexi’s daredevil jumping into the pool moves from the safety of a good distance away Rachael kept yelling “do it again!” hehehe. my little precautious one. <\/div>\n
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\u00a0Nothing like the joy of a good warm towel when the water gets a little too cool.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Rachael working so hard to be “just like Lexi.”<\/div>\n
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\u00a0And yes, even I joined in on the fun. But according to <\/div>\n
precautious Rachael I moved around and splashed too much. hehehe.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Outdoor picnic – I love our wagon. Useful in so many ways. <\/div>\n
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\u00a0mmmmm. good. <\/div>\n
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\u00a0the blonde-haired, fair skinned, we-no-like-the-sun shade section of our dining experience. <\/div>\n
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\u00a0Someone enjoyed their summer sun cat nap.<\/div>\n
\u00a0(sorry for the slight fuzziness, my camera was thinking too hard. hehe)<\/div>\n
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\u00a0She is just tall enough to furniture walk around the exterior <\/div>\n
of the pool,\u00a0using the wall for balance, and O how it delights her so. <\/div>\n
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\u00a0Look! She does actually smile naturally! AND I caught it “on film.”<\/div>\n
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\u00a0No matter how big she gets, she’ll always be my baby Rachael. <\/div>\n
My sweet little girl.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0You really have no idea how hard to was to capture this picture. <\/div>\n
But at least we have 3 pairs of eyes and 2.5 smiles. =) YAY!<\/div>\n
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\u00a0YAY! BOTH my kids in a pic AND smiling. Woot! Woot!<\/div>\n
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\ufeffAbi’s getting brave in the corner, while Rachael delights in the sun-warmed water.<\/div>\n
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And what better than to end it all with a little cleaning water play in the good ole bathtub. <\/div>\n
2 for 1 cleaning, suits and kids all in one. =) [Talk about simplifying, eh Jess? ]<\/div>\n
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And then the children promptly fell asleep for a long and sound nap time. <\/div>\n
Mmmm the joys.<\/div>\n
O How I love thee, Water Play Day. =)<\/div>\n
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This week is one of Lexi’s final weeks at our house before she starts her vacationing, summer camp and then on into her first grade plans. So with only 2 weeks of fun left for us around here (the 2 weeks have a 3 week recess in between), we’ve been trying to have themed-ish days…. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,29,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby","category-being-a-mom","category-the-oldest","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}