Thursday and Friday were both record setting days with temperatures of 108 degrees. Yikes! The icy water of the sprinkler park felt terrific.
Becky was the only person at the park older than 12 playing in the sprinklers, but she's not a nice enough mom to sit and sweat at the park just so her kids can play in the water.
Usually when we have the missionaries over, they bring a game or an object lesson for us. Yesterday they challenged us to balance 3 butter knives on top of three overturned mugs which they had carefully spaced from each other in a triangle. They stumped Brandan and Becky, but Sophie found the solution. Impressive!
We've watched gobs and gobs of the Olympics this week. We even let our kids stay up late (9 pm) to watch their favorites. A week of this schedule is wearing on them and they tucked themselves in to a cozy row to watch Friday night. We've loved the beginning track and field events, the 200 mile per hour badmitton serves and Sophie and Abe's special USA hand clap when our team does something great. And we think Debbie Phelps deserves something-- maybe one of those pins like the boy scouts' moms get.
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OK, Sophie is a genius, the missionaries stumped ALL of us with that knife trick. And then the kids practiced it for about 2 hours the next day. Just in case we ever have that challenge again. I watched Becky get in at the squirt park (with envy) and thought she was the smartest mom there. Lastly, I agree with you about Michael Phelps Mom. She deserves to wear a few of his gold medals to the grocery store, at least.
Was there a gospel message with the knife trick? I got to see some of the Olympics when I was at my parents in Utah. But I get tired of them sooner than everyone else. I'll tell you what really makes me wish I had a TV--the Democratic Convention. NPR is just not cutting it for me.
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