We haven’t had one in a while, and it was only a sorta pajama day (a day where you do not get dressed at all). The big boys stayed in their pj’s the whole day, Timmy got dressed this morning, and I got dressed around 1:30pm. But we did NOTHING. The big boys spent the day playing PS2 in the basement, I played on the computer and with Timmy (and did laundry, made a new address book, made some appointments, cleaned up, uploaded pix…ok, so I did some stuff), and Timmy played with toys and watched TV and Toy Story. So a big fat waste of a day. But sometimes you just need one like that. It wasn’t nice enough for a beach day and I think we all needed a break from the beach. Tommorrow we have some plans with Timmy’s friend Jack, and the boys have a golf lesson weather permitting. This week is supposed to be crappy weather, so I have a feeling there is going to be a whole lot of nothing happening around here. I am actually going to try to scrapbook tonight. That is after I clean the pit that is my scrapbook room. So hopefully I will have some new pages to post on here tommorrow.

In the meantime, I went back and did that "orton" technique on some of my older pictures. I like the way this one came out . Maybe a bit too fuzzy? 

After everyone goes to bed, I’m off to Carvel for my treat. I started WW again today, so I guess I am getting the fat free version tonight. Bummer.

a new (well, to me anyway) editing technique on some of my pictures. Gives them a soft, almost erethral, dreamy kinda look to them. Apparently, it’s supposed to work best on landscape type shots, but thought I would give it a try with the bicycle and gate. Also used some urban acid on the bike. What do you think?

Ok, so I don’t have any pictures of him doing it (yet) cause you have no idea what a fiasco it is lugging the "good" camera down to the beach. And the pool at the beach club is the only "big" pool he’s allowed to go into with swimmy diapers. Anyway, he’s been going in to the pool every beach day with either John or myself, wearing a swim vest. He was doing OK, just enjoying being in the pool, but sinking even though wearing the vest or flipping over (saying "slippery" while doing it). So we really couldn’t let go of him, even though he would push away from us. But…today he got it. He can totally swim by himself without holding on (of course, still wearing the vest). He loves going back and forth to the stairs. He jumps into the pool from the side yelling "cannonball"- just like the big boys. He even went under a few times and even though he didn’t really LIKE being under, he didn’t cry or anything. So brave! Nelson and I were talking about the difference we saw in the big boys when they were first starting to swim and Timmy, and I said it was night and day (they used to be really scared of the pool until they were tall enough to stand-they would scream if they went under like someone was cutting off a leg). Nel’s reply…it’s like night and marbles. That’s how different. I guess having the big boys to emulate and seeing how much they like it makes it a lot easier for Timmy. And he totally KNEW he was doing it alone- he had this big, proud smile on his face everytime he swam. And yelled out "I did it!!!". So cool.

So the boys started their first "official" golf lessons now that we joined a country club. And they are LOVING it. Even though it seems kinda ‘snotty’ to belong to a country club, it really is a nice place and the people are all very nice and friendly. I was surprised too. But the pools are super and all the boys love them, and now adding golf into the mix dosen’t hurt either. I must mention the great time they had riding around in the golf cart- it may have been the highlight of the day. Apparently, they are doing pretty well at golf. They can’t wait to play the course for real. It might be a while til that happens though-I don’t think they can hit the ball very far yet. They also started swimming lessons there, so maybe they will finally learn how to REALLY swim. I mean they can be in the deep end of the pool for hours and not drown, but they don’t really know any of the strokes. They mentioned joining the swim team there, but that would be slightly difficult since they don’t know how to swim. Maybe next year. And don’t you just love the golf gloves?