on saturday, because it was the first one in 3 weeks to have a husband not stuck at work,

we went to the pool! 
it was B’s first time in the water…. and he appeared to enjoy it…

as i sat on the deck and watched Little Man blissfully splashing and kicking into his future of summers, i thought of all of the summers i have had in years past…

how those arizona summers were miserable unless you were in a pool.  or in our case, running through sprinklers or filling a tarp-lined trampoline with water to slide around in like a kiddy pool. {or exploiting friends for pools and boats respectively….}

my best friend calli and i even went so far as to fill up large plastic laundry buckets with a hose and just sit in em. for hours. we thought that was the life. and that doesn’t seem that long ago…

and once a year, we would take a pilgrimage to the coast to visit the family in cali and take a much needed break from the 112 days and live like the other half lives….in beach weather.

{which for us meant parking our large white bodies in the sea of toned and tanned bodies armed only with a soggy box of wheat thins and cooler full of fresca. that, was the life.}

i hope B knows just how lucky he is to be on vacation for a while {hopefully for-ever}
and i am glad he gets to soak up the sun without soaking in sweat. and swim in a heated pool that still feels cool and perfect instead of a “cool” arizona pool that feels like 98 degrees on a good day….. otherwise, i don’t know that the kid would know what daylight is.

{sorry, arizonans. i think i am officially claiming to be a california girl.
and i will still sleep great at night doing so.}