The country club pool with Haley and Carlie

Friday was a big day for us. We had a pool play date with Haley and Carlie at the country club where their granddad is a member. I'll tell you what, if I belonged to that club, I would be there every day. There was hardly anyone there. There were two diving boards in the deep end (10 ft) for Haley and Sophia to jump off of while performing "tricks". I think Sophia thought she was doing tricks, but each jump looked exactly the same to me. (smile)

The girls must have asked 100 times when we were going to leave the pool.  They were so excited because Haley was spending the night at our house with Sophia and Lilly was spending the night with Carlie at her house. I think I ended up with the harder of the two pairs especially since mine didn't go to sleep until 11:30 and that was only after I climbed into bed with them.

We eventually left around 4:30.  The last half hour was extremely excruciating for them. After everyone was dry we parted ways. When we got home Haley and Sophia ran straight up to Sophia's bedroom and I didn't seem them for about an hour and a half.  After that they were attached to my hip. They asked me if I would color with them. So I did. Then they asked me to play a few card games with them. So I did. Then they asked me what else we could do together.  So were sorted out the border of a 1,000 piece puzzle.  That took a long time and I was grateful. 

A side note:  When I got the puzzle last week I thought the picture on the box was cool.  It's a crazy looking beach scene.  Well, when we started to do the puzzle I couldn't figure out how to start.  The four corners didn't match the images on the corners on the box. Strange....  Then I read the instructions that came with the puzzle.  Have you ever heard of a puzzle needing a page of instructions?  What I found out was that the image on the front of the box is the before picture and the puzzle that I'm supposed to put together is the after image.  Despite the difficulty of the task I've managed to get the whole border finished and have started slowly making my way through the puzzle from the outside edges - working my way to the center.

I found out later from Michelle that the younger two girls entertained themselves the entire time night.  She did get the easy pair.

Here are a few pictures taken the pool. 

Here are a few pictures from the sleep over at our house.  

Haley taught Sophia how to make duct tape purses, wallets, and a dog collar for Sadie. Sophia is now obsessed with creating duct tape things. As soon as we dropped off Haley on Saturday morning Sophia asked me if I would take her to the store so she could purchase some funky duct tape of her own with the $10 that Aunt Carole mailed to her.  

Here they are wearing their matching pajamas.  Sophia gave Haley the pajamas as a birthday present when she want to Halye's sleep over party. 

Don't these two look like they're up to no good?  They planned to stay up late and tell each other their deepest, darkest secrets.  This was Sophia's idea. She actually revealed one of her secrets to me.  I don't really feel like I'm betraying her because it's kind of a funny deep, dark secret. Here goes:  Sophia said she broke a necklace of Lillys that Will bought for her while we were in Hilton Head. 

I kind of thought she would reveal a little bit more about her super crush on Tug.  He was in her class for first grade. He was the genius of the classroom. He'll be going to another school next year, but Sophia insists that they are going to get married some day.  Wouldn't that be neat.  Instead of high school sweethearts they could be grade school sweethearts.  He's almost as tall as she is...so there might be hope afterall.

Here's a couple of pictures that Michelle shared with me of Carlie and Lilly playing and then watching an American Girl doll movie eating some popcorn.

 

This last picture shows the feast that Michelle made for them at breakfast. Pancakes and bacon.  Lilly doesn't eat pancakes because she doesn't like them, but she loves bacon.  Instead of telling Michelle that she didn't care for pancakes she told her that she liked pancakes with whipped cream and sprinkles on top.  

Michelle sent me a text teasing me about what I was teaching my youngest to eat for breakfast.  I cracked up!  I can just see Lilly using her serious voice and telling Michelle like she eats that every day.  Of course I informed Michelle that Lilly was telling a tall tale. Michelle told me they ate the whipped cream and that's about all.