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Things here have been super busy, Randy's mom, her husband, and his sister, her husband and kids came to visit for 9 days.  There were 10 of us in the house with one bathroom.  That was fun!  We went and saw the sights of KC, and as a belated birthday present to our niece and nephew we bought them a room at Great Wolf Lodge.  If you have never heard of it, it is an indoor water park/hotel, but in order to use the water park you have to stay in the hotel.  Great Wolf Lodge is about 4 miles from our house so we have never really justified the cost to go to the water park, when we live so close.  So we got them a room, and then we were able to buy additional passes for ourselves so we got to have some fun also! 

We were curious about how Dasha would react to a BIG "bathtub", and the minute we walked into the water park she started crying, as it is very loud and the great big bucket of water decided to dump right at that point.  I got her swim suit on her and Randy and Camden took off and I took Dasha to the baby pool, the minute her toes hit the water she start crying hysterically.  I started thinking this was going to be a LONG day!  I walked her around for probably about half an hour and then I traded with Randy and I got to go enjoy the slides with Camden.  We took a break for a snack and Dasha was getting a little more comfortable so we decided to try the slides, well then she really blossomed!   She slid and slid and slid.  We eventually took her away screaming because she was FREEZING!  I will never understand why but the big pools were heated, but kids area was not, and the kids were very cold.  So we took both kids over to the hot tub area and I put a life jacket on her and she just floated on her back like it was nothing.  We let go of her and she was fine.  She did awesome.  We left for a nap and then went back after nap time for another round.  She had a great time.  So that helps me with thinking swim lessons this summer are going to be good. 

We also went to American Girl where her Aunt bought her a Bitty Baby, we are in trouble now!  American Girl stuff is crazy expensive, we also toured Cablea's, and we went to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.  Overall it was a good visit even though it was 90 degrees out.  That is just totally insane for early April weather here, I broke my air conditioner rule and turned it on, it was way too hot to not have it on with so many people in the house.  I usually won't turn it on until May 15th or later.  I have a bad feeling that this is going to be a nasty summer!

I couldn't get a good one of Dasha going down, she was too fast!