Poolside!

We've enjoyed a comfortably mild summer in 2008. While some people hope for 90-degree days to last the entire summer, I am content with temperatures in the 70s and 80s.

Today, just one day after Labor Day, temperatures in southern Wisconsin finally approached 90 degrees for the first time this year. To mark the occasion, I filled Jack's inflatable pool to let him celebrate the unofficial end of summer.


Jack was apprehensive of the pool at first. After all, this little pool has been sitting in the garage collecting dust since the summer of 2006. So it is not surprising that Jack wanted to feel things out first.

It didn't take long before Jack's interest peaked, and the fun began.

Jack really enjoyed splashing in the cool water.

What kid can resist draining the pool?

The next Michael Phelps...

Jack will undoubtedly be too big for this little inflatable pool by next summer, so the two of us will do our best to persuade mommy to put in a real pool!

Living in Wisconsin, the bad news is that a pool can only be used four months out of the year. But the good news is that I won't have to clean it for the other eight months of the year!