On a hot summer day
We purchased a tiny baby pool for Drew a few days ago and since it was hot as pie today, I decided to blow it up and introduce Drew to the world of pools.Of course, I have never been in a pool myself. As this story progresses, please keep that in mind. ;)
After thirty-five minutes of blowing my hot air into this tiny circle of plastic, I finally got it set up and put it on our deck. We have too many fire ants in our lawn so the deck was Plan B.
I filled it with water, put some sunscreen on Drew, grabbed a few toys by the door and two tupperware containers, and plopped Drew in the water.
For about five seconds he just froze. And then he reached for the tupperware containers (because those rock more than actual toys, you know) and began pouring water.
A few minutes passed by and I realized that his diaper had grown about five inches all the way around him. And the water level seemed to lower quickly. Okay, that might have been an exaggeration. But, he was wearing a diaper in the pool. And regular shorts. He has one pair of swimming trunks but they are too big for him so I just let him wear a pair of cotton shorts. But the diaper? I have no clue. I just wasn’t thinking and sat there staring as he took in a lot of water around very-sensitive-to-temperature-parts. He suddenly looked at me and squeaked. I still didn’t get it.
But as the serene sun shone and the beautiful breeze blew, I watched my sincerely sweet son enjoy his first pool experience. Yes, that was an awful sentence but I laughed so hard after I read it that I couldn’t delete it. Anyway, he really did start playing and laughing as he splashed around.
After watching Drew crawl very oddly in the pool, it suddenly hit me that his diaper had to be ANNOYING HIM TO PIECES. I felt like a fool and quickly stripped him down and let him skinny dip his last few minutes in the pool.
He flung himself back into the water, grinning wildly. Only to squeak loudly again and then half crouch. He looked at me oddly and then slowly sank into the water. I couldn’t help but just die laughing.
While talking with Daniel later in the afternoon, I mentioned that maybe I should use warm water in the future since Drew seemed to be so shivery those last few minutes and there was a pause and then Daniel said ,”YOU USED COLD WATER?! MY POOR SON!”
Sigh.
I’m such a horrible mother. 3 months ago