The slide

It really shocks me that Parker likes the slide at the swimming pool. If it were up to me, just padding around in the 4' deep section would be totally fine. I'm really pleased that she does something that all the other kids do, and she's not afraid.
The audio for the still photos is all direction: "take a picture of me on the ladder! take a picture of me waving! " I do as I"m told.

And then splashdown. For some reason she swims to my legs first this time...I guess because I have the camera rolling.

I hope this video works. If it doesn't, check back, I'll fix it. I never can tell until I offically post it whether or not it will work.

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Garden update: Corn

At school Parker's class did a unit on plants and seeds and such, and she planted some "indian corn". She brought it home and we planted it in the garden, and it grew! Since I'm making room for fall tomatoes and other veggies, it was harvest time for the corn. I don't think we watered it enough because there weren't many actually corn kernals on the corn cobs. We enjoyed the process of planting and harvesting just the same.

Excuse the arm tattoos, sunglasses and pajamas. By the end of the day I'm done worrying about how she looks.

New favorite color

Emily's comment on the New Belt post, "don't think i didn't notice the toenail polish/shirt coordination" reminded me that Parker has a new favorite color. Blue. Prior to now her favorite color to wear has been pink, followed by purple. But now it's blue, followed by red. She's also a big fan of the red, white and blue combo, what she calls "4th of July colors". She has about 3 blue shirts that she alternates, and gets very agitated when they aren't clean.
The holy grail of all shirts is the one in the picture. It meets all her standards.
Blue? check.
Halter? check.
Sparkles? check.
Notice that "clean?" was not one of the requirements. Neither is "fits?" or "doesn't have a raggedy hem?". Last week she was about 5 minutes away from going to school in pajamas because none of her blue shirts were clean and I wouldn't allow her to wear a dirty one.
This is not bad timing, since we need to get her lots of new school clothes...she's finally outgrown some things, but I am still having a LOT of anxiety about back to school shopping. I'm wistfully remembering the days when I could dress her up like my little doll. Now, I'm just trying to prevent her from being sent home from school.

New Belt

Just a quick update. All my computer time lately has been dedicated to my CAD work, so I'm behind on blogging. Hopefully I'll be done this week, and have more time to report on how we are filling our summer days.
Today was belt shopping. Parker has had "belt" on my shopping list for weeks now, ever since she noticed that her jeans and denim shorts have beltloops. So we went to Target and picked out a couple belts for her. She's modeling it in the picture. (on her waist, not her feet, that's something else.) We spent lots of time today doing and undoing the belts, trying them on with different bottoms, and tucking in her shirt so her belt shows.
I checked the kindergarten website, and halter tops are against the dress code. We might be homeschooling her unless can convince her to cover her shoulders.