Normally, I would not have Elliot today, but it is Juneteenth so I have off from work.
We visited PetSmart. Elliot petted a hamster and wants to buy it. He’ll name it Poochy. Then we went to the Eastridge Swimming Pool (the “Frog Pool”). He spent an entire hour going down the indoor water slide. It was his second time on the slide. He kept saying to me, “This is so much fun, Daddy!” We walk up the stairs together. Then he slides down and, after the lifeguard gives the OK, I slide down, too. We meet in the pool at the base of the slide. He asks, “What did you do???” And I would alternately say, “The pencil! the carrot! the daikon!” and he would say, “I did the meatball!” or “The carrot!”
Afterwards, in the locker room, he always likes me to weigh him and measure his height on the scale. Then we play hide-and-seek in the lockers — he can still fit in them and close the door completely, and they are half-height lockers!
