Fun Water Day

Jonathan wanted us to buy him a toy yesterday that we couldn't find. We looked, and looked, but we couldn't find it. He wanted an X-ray machine or something like that. He got very sad and I told him that I would buy it on the internet (which I did tonight) and but it didn't console him. So I (bad me, I know) bought him another Leapster cartridge and the look in his face was priceless. He played all evening at Joe's Crab Shack, which bothered me because he has been so social lately that I didn't like to see him to submerged in his own world, but I let it go. He wanted to play this morning, but daddy told him that he couldn't until I got up (I slept really late today for the first time in years) and when I got up, he played for a bit. So he played on and off until our friends came over with their kids.

Jonathan was taking an involuntary break from his Leaspter toy when our friends came over. They brought a volcano toy that connects into a hose and it explodes water. It is a very fun toy. Daddy hooked it up and Jonathan came running to me saying "mommy, mommy, I want to put my bathing suit on". It was the first time since we came back from the beach that we had gathered in one of our houses. So Jonathan had really not played in our house with the kids since then. Before the beach, there was nothing that we could tell Jonathan to persuade him to come to the backyard and play with the kids when they came over. Today, that is all he wanted to do. Play with all the kids. I told him to go to his room and get the bathing suit, and he did. I was pretty shocked. He brought it down and I helped him. He still has some coordination and muscle tone issues. I went upstairs to get his sandals and put them on. He came back running and said "mommy, I'm going to take my sandals off. C doesn't have sandals. I want to be like C". I told him that it was okay. Vanessa came asking for her bathing suit too.

The kids spent about 1.5 hours playing with the water. And another 1.5 hours playing with other things. It was great. Jonathan had a blast. He talked to them and they talked back and they all invented games with the volcano. I think they even broke it from sitting on it (Jonathan in particular who is 60 lbs). But it was amazing to see him playing so normally. Then they invented other games on the playground. They brought out a crochet came and Jonathan would set it up at the bottom of the slide and they all took turns to slide a ball down and then themselves. It is really hard to recognize him lately.

When our friends left, I bathed the kids and served dinner. Jonathan ate and then watched a bit of TV until he and Vanessa started playing with a Lightining McQueen car. And made up stories and places to go, etc.

If you click on the pictures, it should open another page showing them in bigger resolution. I don't know why they seem smaller today than normal.