But Mother says no.

Until I can convince her otherwise, we’ll stick to juice and lemonade – my beverage staples this summer. And I drank a lot of juice and lemonade on July 4th! It was hot and sunny and nothing goes better with lemonade than a huge, inflatable slip-n-slide! We rented one with our neighbors for our block party and all my friends and our moms and dads went slip-sliding on it. We also had our swimming pools set up to splash around in. I ate lots and lots of chips. And then I had lots and lots of cupcakes. And I stayed up way too late, but I got to see fireworks from our driveway. It was a very fun 4th.

I got to try out the slip-n-slide a day early during the test run, but I did not like it. I tried climbing in, but the water spray got me and it was cold. My mom tried sliding me down part way, but that was un-cool and I cried. I also got Velcro burn plus a sunburn. Boo. I was happiest splashing in the runoff (where my dad had to leap over me to do his Superman slide move). And I really just like the pool.

Today we went to Monkey Joe’s again. This was my second time there and I think I finally “got it”. I need help climbing the ladders (thanks Mom), but going down the big slides is so fun! And they’re really big. I am such a “big kid” when I go down too. It’s like no big deal and once I slide I’m ready to climb up again (as long as I have my “pusher” to get me to the top).

And I almost forgot! We grew butterflies! The caterpillars turned into butterflies and the other night we let them go in the front yard. There were five of them and it was really neat to let them go and see them fly around our house. I can’t wait to do it again, but Daddy may have something to say about that.

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