English Emma Blooms

J oel went off the 300ft high (or so it seemed to me) diving board at the rivi . He and friend Sarah (daughter of David Christoff) wandered out of my sight. I found him scaling the ladder of the tallest diving board at the pool. Sarah dove gracefully, the it was Joel's turn. Joel walked to the end of the diving board and froze. Then he freaked out. The life guard told him to turn around and go back which alarmed him more. IN the end, What made him finally jump was a wasp who came to see what all the noise about. The kids watching clapped. Then I to ld Joel I would get him an ice cream and.... the Rivi had run out of ice cream!

Last day of summer for Joel. We did everything at Joel's speed. (the speed of water rippling on a lake in a calm breeze). We watched dogs be groomed at petsmart, lunch at Panera Bread, school lunch shopping at Trader Joes' swimming at the Rivi and then dinner at the Cheesecake factory.

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