Another Crazy Day in the Parker Family

We dropped T1 off at camp yesterday. He saw friends as soon as he walked to his cabin and they were all excited to see each other again. Surprisingly, I felt good leaving him there. Don't get me wrong, I hate that he's away from us for so long, but I have a peace about the experience knowing that he's making lifelong friends and creating wonderful memories. Matt and I got online last night and we already saw several pictures of him having a blast. His smile was so big that he looked like the Joker! I can't wait to get our first letter from him, but I'm not holding my breath.

We introduced T2 to a portable, on-the-go potty on our way to camp. He wanted to hold it, so I passed it back only to have him put it on his head and call it Mr. Hat. Within a couple of minutes, he had managed to twist and pull it down pretty far on his face and was crying because it was stuck. We had to pull over and finagle it off of his head. With our poor luck in the potty training arena, I wouldn't be surprised at all if T2 never uses this potty because he's now been traumatized by it. Speaking of potty woes, we found another big poo in the potty tonight after the boys were in bed and, after some investigating, were able to confirm that T2 had once again pooped in his pants, transferred it to the potty by hand, and put clean undies on. Disgusting. Repulsive. I'm seriously tired of potty training; don't they have special schools for this sort of thing?

Could there be any additional potty issues for the Parker crew? Yep, you better believe it! This time it was T1. He had to pee on the way to camp yesterday, but Matt refused to pull over because the little guys had just fallen asleep and he knew they would wake up as soon as the car stopped. So, what did T1 do? He found an empty soda bottle and drained his lizard in it. Gross! It stunk!

After we dropped T1 off at camp, Matt and I took T2 and T3 swimming in the river near T1's camp. We were there a couple hours and the babies had a blast. You have to put your towel and belongings on the dam of the river, which is only about 10-15 feet in width. I was nervous as heck because there was deep water on one side of the dam and a relatively long and steep slope on the other side. Water was slowing cresting the dam in the middle of the dam and there was a group of kids sliding down the dam like it was a great big slip-n-slide. Of course, Matt was tempted to slide, but he hesitated because he didn't have T1 to do it with him. He was pleasantly surprised when T2 decided he wanted to slide down the dam. They were having fun sliding together, but T2 quickly decided to slide down on his own. He's a pretty brave 3-year old! While Matt and T2 were having fun, T3 and I were swimming together in the river. Unlike T2, T3 was pretty scared of swimming in the river. He's never scared to swim at the YMCA where the water is clear and shallow, but he was definitely fearful yesterday in deep river water.

See below for a few pictures from our day. The first one is T3 playing on T1's bed in his cabin. The second picture is T1 and I in his cabin. The third is the dam that Matt and T2 were sliding down. If you look closely, you can see them on the dam (look for the yellow floaties on T2's arms). The fourth is a snapshot of Matt and T2 swimming on the other side of the dam.