Then all of a sudden he stands with his hands on his hips, turns his head, puffs out his chest in a superhero pose, and belts out "I AM A MAN!" Oh lord it was hilarious.
My dad blows up the huge tractor tire innertube thing and gives it to us. I got dibs on it of course because I am the oldest, and I said so.
Why do you get it?
Because I'm the oldest, and I said so.
Ah, okay, just curious.
So I'm floating around on it. My ultimate goal being to keep as much of my body out of the freezing moth graveyard as possible.
My kid was crawling up on it and then jumping off onto my brother. Then he was all "I wanna try that!" (meaning crawling on the innertube and jumping off). So I said "Alright, climb on, Bre, you get ready to catch him!"
oh how we laughed. My brother has probly 100 pounds on my kid. You had to be there. It was funny. Once again, just trust me.
He finally got up on it. It was not an easy task. He climbed up the ladder, and then tried to ease backwards down onto it. I wish I had the video camera. Well, maybe not cuz I got really wet. I wish someone *outside* of the pool had the video camera? Hold it steady! Wait! I'm not ready! Okay, I'm really gonna go this time - are you ready? And of course I'd wait till he was almost sitting on the tube and scream "WAIT! I'M NOT READY!!" I'm sitting here laughing just thinking about it. You really have to be my family to enjoy this story, huh?
Who cares, I continue..
So he gets on, and kinda flops back so he's laying accross me. He's graceful. He gets that from me. If you saw the ballet performance Saturday night, you'd know this already. He has like no possible way to "jump" off, so he just lays there. And all 3 of us are laughing so hard we're crying.
My penguinesque daughter leaps out of the water and lands on top of us.
So we're all just laying in a heap on this hugeass innertube giggling so hard one of us is bound to throw up.
I'm squished. I am laughing. I can't breathe. I say all three of these things out loud, just incase they haven't noticed.
My brother announces ... and this is so classic!
Alright, time to vote someone off the innertube!
Yeah, sometimes we're just so much funny wrapped up into 2 kids and an old lady, it hurts.