Andrew finished swim team a week ago, so this last week he got to come and hang out at the pool with me while Oliver and Evelyn had their last week of lessons. Mostly, he borrowed my phone to hunt Pokemon around the aquatics center. Evelyn passed (barely) her level 3 lessons, though the instructor suggested she might benefit from repeating them. Oliver passed his intro class (it would be hard not to, though!) and only had one bad day where he wasn't following the rules and let go of the side of the pool and sank. His teacher fished him up again, but he freaked out and spent the rest of the lesson sitting in my lap.
The rest of the days have melted together: lots of friends, a few chores, lots of evening walks with Andrew (hunting Pokemon, of course! But it does make for good bonding and some exercise). My babysitter was at girls camp this week, so it wasn't a very productive week for me, despite Andrew offering to pick up the slack (provided I pay him something!)--he was more interested in playing with friends, it turns out.
Yesterday, Dan had to work all day in preparation for a conference (where he'll be until Wednesday), so I took the kids to the library and then the local popnsweets (a new chain that's opened in town and has almost every soda imaginable and an impressive collection of foreign candy). We were looking for butterscotch beer (aka Butter Beer) for a Harry Potter celebration and wound up with a hot chocolate float (Evelyn--and yes, that's ice cream in hot chocolate), ice cream (blue and orange--Oliver still picks desserts by color), and a Prohibition float (vanilla ice cream, birch beer, root beer, and sarsaparilla).
(My picture from Instagram b/c I didn't have my actual camera with me).
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