Having neighbor kids to play with has been very motivational
for our kids to get their responsibilities out of the way early in the day so
they can play outside. They have loved having the basketball courts right there
across the drive from our site. Countless games of H-O-R-S-E and endless
variations of it have been played. They also made up a survival game playing
with Brad’s gun that shoots something like a biodegradable water pellet. They’re
a little bigger than a traditional airsoft BB and slightly smaller than a
marble. I think it’s called Xploderz or something like that. Now that this
weapon has been introduced to the boys, I think it has made it onto each one’s
birthday list. ;o) Survival was played by the shooter trying to take everyone
out before someone snuck up and tagged him/her…last man standing wins. There’s
just the one gun and I’ve really been impressed with both Brad and Kristi’s willingness
to share their things over the course of the week.
After lunch, the kids played some more with the kids outside
and came back begging to go swimming. I said we could and they went down with
Frank and his kids about 15 minutes before I was ready to head down. I got my suit on and walked into the
pool area. I put on my sunscreen and sat at a table for about 10 minutes. Then
I got into the water slowly, about up to my waist. I started watching the
thunderheads build and finally we heard some distant thunder rumbling and we
called the kids out of the pool.
We all got changed out of our wet suits and invited Brad and
Kristi to join the kids and I in the rec room to play games while I did our
laundry. They asked if they could watch a movie. I didn’t mind and by the time
we got set up in the nicely air conditioned rec room, we’d gained another three
kids. Brad and Kristi had brought some cupcakes to share, but then there weren’t
enough to go around. We decided to split a couple of them in half so that all
the kids could have at least a taste. We all watched the movie Up together while it rained off and on,
and poured hard for a while, outside. It was actually a really nice way to get
three loads of laundry done.
After our time in the rec room, it was time to get some
dinner made. While I was working on that, Brock finished up his work week and
we had a good family meeting discussing what values and characteristics are
important to us. The neighborhood kids were chomping at the bit to have our
kids back outside to play so we then ate our pizza and salad quickly and the
kids charged back out for some more fun chasing around. I’m amazed at how much
energy they can pour into their activities of choice.
We are so stoked to have Brock on vacation for the next two
weeks!! Tomorrow we check out of this park and head closer in to the D.C. area.
We will miss seeing the friends we’ve made here.
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