Another busy weekend

We had another weekend full of activities. Our town, Americus, has a swimming pool that is in bad shape. A group of people in town have formed a committee to help "save the pool". Joshua and I are not active members of the committee, but we help out with some of their fundraisers. This weekend was the annual "save the pool" bash at one of the parks. Joshua and I (mostly Joshua) run the softball tournament portion of the weekend.

On Friday night, Joshua and a couple friends of ours were at the ball field putting up fence and working the field. Tyson brought out his four-wheeler to drag the field. Cooper was so excited to see his "motorcyctle". He was even more excited when Ben gave him a ride on the "motorcyctle".

Saturday we were at the ball field and the park all day. Cooper did go to grandpa Hamlin's for a little while to get out of the heat and take a nap. However, while he was at the field he was playing ball too. He found the helmets in the shed (they keep all the rec. t-ball stuff in there) and he insisted on wearing it virtually all day. The kid was sweating buckets, but refused to take it off. I thought it was so cute, but I felt bad for how hot he had to have been.



Cooper had to tell Natalie (Nat a nee) good bye, but of course could not take the helmet off to do so.

After the tournament was over we went over to the park to join in on the festivities and take Cooper swimming. They had horse rides, an air up jumper, a dunk tank, ring toss, a DJ, concessions with real smoked food, an ice cream social with all home made ice cream, and the swimming pool was open until 9 pm.




On Sunday afternoon we headed out to the lake with some friends. We didn't really have any plans for being on the water except to relax. The whole way out to the lake Cooper kept saying, "I drive da boat." So when we got there we made sure to tell Charlie who the Captain was. Cooper did a good job. He didn't love being in the water as much as he does at the pool, but he did go "twimmn'" a little bit.

The sun and the lack of a good nap really wiped Cooper out. He actually fell asleep in daddy's lap driving the boat (why no picture?) Daddy transferred him to me until he was good and asleep, then we laid him down. We got the boat docked and he didn't wake up until we were trying to get him off the boat. This was pretty amazing to us, because anyone who knows our son, knows that he does not sleep anywhere other than the car and his bed. HE WAS TIRED!!!!