Swim Friends

Today the kids were off school for Martin Luther King's Birthday. Natalie doesn't get to spend much time with her friends outside of swimming, especially her swim friends, so today was the perfect opportunity. Her friends Renzi, Aspen, and Ally spent most of the day with us. Renzi and Ally arrived around 1130. Aspen didn't arrive until around noon since she still had school (home-school). They did some silly things like take selfies while standing in the middle of the street in front of our house and singing to their favorite songs. Three out of four wore their matching "What Does The Fox Say?" shirts. They mostly spent time in Natalie's room with the door closed, but at about 1pm they decided they wanted to go get ice cream.

We haven't taken a trip to Brindles in a while, so we went there, and I took Eric along as well. Natalie got her usual Red Velvet ice cream. Her friends all got the Cookies and Dream flavor, which is like Cookies and Cream except with Dreamsicle ice cream instead of the "Cream". It was a beautiful day so we all sat outside to eat our ice cream. The girls went into the Half-Price Books next door and Natalie came out asking if I would buy them matching bookmarks that said, "Life is too important to take seriously" with a picture of silly birds sitting on each other's heads--silly bookmarks for silly girls.

We were originally supposed to take them all to swim practice on Monday night so their parents could pick them up there, but swim practice got cancelled, so they got picked up at our house at about 5:30pm. Natalie had a lot of fun being a normal girl with normal friends who just happen to swim.