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Swimming on SoCo

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Today was our first real swim since before the goddamn pandemic hit.

We’re easing our way back to “normal”, in this case meaning a more fun summer than last. ☀️ I jumped on a pool pass at the Austin Motel (“So Close, Yet So Far Out”). This hotel pool turns out to be less crowded and more fun than neighborhood social club the High Road, which we tried the summer before last.

One thing I love about Molly is that she’s not trying to be an adult yet. She made a “sea raft” out of swim noodles, held together with goggles. We played with our pool toys, Sammie the Seamonster and Ollie Octopus.

And we took lots of underwater photos, using my iPhone as a bit of a pool toy itself. I guess it could use a cleaning anyways. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Watermelon Bowl🍉

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Molly enjoying a watermelon bowl, noting:

  1. The watermelon is bigger than her head
  2. This is “the only natural way to eat a watermelon”
  3. She has no idea how this whole thing fits in her stomach
  4. A yet Molly persisted and ate the whole thing, while Claire only ate half of hers (and gave the rest to me 😋).

Basic Austin Kid

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We were heading out for an errand, when Molly notes that she looks like a “basic Austin kid.”

She’s right! And so self-aware. 🤔

The Whataburger drink gives it away. This is her favorite restaurant and has previously done a cartwheel 🤸🏻‍♀️ when told we were getting Whataburger.

Any School Nurse

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Today I set Molly up with a new keyboard and mouse for her MacBook at the little desk in her room. She said the liked the mouse and then started typing on the keyboard. It was a little “clickier” that what she was used to.

Her face immediately lit up, and she rolled out a pretty great joke…

“Hey, Dad. What do I sound like?” she said as she clicked continually on the new, loud keyboard.

“I don’t know. A kid typing?” I said.

“No,” she said. “Any school nurse!” She giggled.

“Hey, Dad. Go outside and come back in,” she said, gesturing towards the door.

I left the room and came back in. Molly greeted me as a nurse. “What is bothering you today, honey?” she said as she continued to type loudly, still staring at the screen. I told her I had scraped my knee.

“Okay, let me see what we can do about that”. Molly opened her web browser to type something in.

Then she whispered to me, “Dad, look what I’m searching.”

She had typed in the Google search field, “what is a nurse?” 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Good one, Molly. 👍

Cosmic Walk

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Hey, I got a decent pic of both girls today. ☺️

We strolled up to Cosmic Coffee (and Beer Garden). We’re trying to get out for regular walks to prepare for our trip to Ireland later this year. “We’re going to be waling all around Dublin, so let’s get our legs ready,” I told them. Luckily, they were pretty enthusiastic about walking. Bonus: the Texas heat will make walking around Ireland seem like a literal cake walk.

Also, Molly wanted to try out iced tea since she had enjoyed some stevia-based tea at home. But she was not terribly impressed with unsweet green hibiscus tea, describing it as “bitter”. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Molly’s First Web Page

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Molly just started a web development course and created her very first web page.

The web page is called “All About Me”, is written in pure HTML, and says a lot about our little coder. 🤓

Molly’s first website

I helped her with an edit. She said, “Ohh ok thanks. I may be asking a lot of questions on HTML. I hope you dont mind!” So sweet! And of course I don’t mind. 😛