I got several photo updates via text from Spouse-the-Hip about Sidekick Sister's cast removal. In not a one of them did she have pants on so I will refrain from sharing them on the Internet and therefore ruining her whole, complete, and entire life. Well, and plus I never post pictures.
Anyway - the Sidekick Sister has been given permission to go castless whenever she is ready. Her old cast has Velcro on it so she can slip into and out of it according to how she feels. She is the captain of the cast ship now. I'm excited for her. Exercising her right to remove her cast, she took her first in-bath bath today (another picture I was sent and will not share on the whole wide world web) and Spouse-the-Informer said she was happy as a really wide, grinning clam. When she packed her bags for this trip she put in two swimming suits (she also packed a dog, a jacket, two pairs of pajamas and some socks. She was missing any shirts and pants and underwear. I love her). I do believe the first thing she wants to do upon returning home is to go to the swimming pool, and I couldn't be more thrilled to accommodate her.
Speaking of swimming, we've had some stupendous storming here for the last 24 hours. The kids and some of their friends went rollicking out in the sheets of rain with squeals of joy this afternoon. After not seeing the Little Linebacker and our little 4 year old friend for a minute from the doorway, I stepped outside on the porch to see where they'd gotten to. I found them giving themselves a double soaking with the garden hose. They were wetter than wetter than wet, and happy. A little while later Captain Kindergarten and his kindergarten graduate friend came running through the house shouting about their swimming pool. Then I saw they were jumping in our almost overflowing ditch in the front yard. At the time I thought, "Ew," and "Gross," and "I hope it's all just run-off." But when I was rocking Baby Girl to sleep tonight, Mom-brain attacked, and I thought, "The Little Linebacker could've gotten in that 'pool' while I wasn't looking and drifted right down it into the drainage pipe." I felt so sick and still feel so sick, it's like my brain thinks it happened and that I barely pulled him out in time. I'm going to need to do some remedial rain responsibility teaching tomorrow...and perhaps keep a better eye on adventurous young men in deluges.
And that folks is the end.
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