One Day Last Week We Busted Out The Blow-Up Pool

Every now and then, we (Bek and I) feel sorry for our poor mother-in-law's sanity.

Our brood is busy, loud and great in number.

Oh, and sticky. They are sticky too.

So a couple of days last week we let her pretend we didn't exist and ransacked my house instead.

Because, you know, I'm used (numb) to the loud and busy kind.

My exact line of work, in fact.

Upon hearing "I'm bored!" from the fourth whinny-pitched child that day, we marched the troops out back and we blew up the generously sized inflatable pool.

WT style.

We put Delia on hose duty, Milo in a time out, broke up a fight between Lena and Eloise, held crying two year olds and mustered onward with weary smiles.

I call this one: "Rebekah Defeated"

It took roughly 2 hours to fill that bad boy with freezing cold hose water.

Then came my genius idea to add in a couple (20) squirts of dish soap.

OH BUT THE EYES! I FORGOT ABOUT THE SOAP IN THE EYES!

Oliver hating it

But it was too late to turn back. Remember-two hour fill up time.

Sorry Oller. Somehow he still managed to have fun in between the stinging eye episodes.

in between stinging eye episodes being quite cute

The bigs loved it, and best part of all, no one needed a bath when we were through.

Dish-Dawn clean children.

lena shakin' it

simon makes an appearance in a diaper and Oliver about to hate it again

hooray for plastic!

Here's to cousin memories and the Summer of Vaisey.

And to soap in the eye.