Day at the pool

Circumstances guided us to the wading pool at Brashear park today. It didn't start that way. Ellie announced this morning, I want to go to somebody's house today. That's three-year-old speak for My parents are boring, and I want to go somewhere with kids who'll entertain me.

So we went over to Jen's. She was working this morning on some medical editing project, so I brought over a collection of signal analysis books (my summer project is to write speech therapy software). Ellie played with the kids and I learned about windowing functions. I discovered that whoever ordered all of the signal processing books for Truman made good selections, because those books are generally superior to the books I have obtained via interlibrary loan.

We decided to pick up some lunch and eat it at Brashear park. I went home and dragged Linda along, and we stopped for drive-through on the way to the park. Ellie was desperate to swim, which I should have anticipated, so Jen took her clothes off down to her pull-up and Ellie waded in. The KTVO-TV3 people were filming, so there might be footage of my mostly-naked kid on the news tonight.

We played for many hours. Ellie was so cold she couldn't stop shaking. I still had to literally pick her up and haul her away when it was time to leave. I thought for certain that she would fall asleep as soon as she got warm, but she's still going strong.

I, on the other hand, am beat.