wearing them out

lately karyssa has been BEGGING for a bath. not that she doesn't get them. we do bath night every other night. but lately everytime she sits still she decides it's time for a bath. she points upstairs and says "bat!" and when you tell her she just had a bath, or she had a bath this morning, or it's not bath time or even bath day she falls into a heap on the floor and says, more dramatically, "baa-haa-hat!" so today we decided to take the kids swimming. "yay! himming!" she says. for over an hour they swam. asher too. we went to the erie rec center pool and it's just short enough that when he falls in half, landing on his hands, his face is JUST above the water. it was so cute. i wish i had taken my camera. we swam until their lips were blue and even karyssa was requesting to get out of the pool. then we gave them showers and piled back into the truck and came home for grilled cheese & turkey sandwiches...and, of course, and naps.
love mornings when we can successfully wear them out. i wish that was something i could do on my own, but i can't keep up with both of them in the water alone.

side funny note: last night i turned on the new gas grill and paul was keeping an eye on the kids. i came inside, got the meat for grilling and went back but the grill was ice cold. then i realized all the knobs had been turned back off. silly little man. he loves twisting things. door knobs, the dishwasher knob, toys that have twisting buttons, and now, apparently, the grill knobs. *sigh* i love that little man!