So, we’re smack in the middle of a 13 day sensory integration program for Riley and it's going amazingly well. I'll post more about that later. The program requires two daily sessions and in between them we are spending time at a public pool. The kids are doing great. Riley is amazing.
A young couple walks in. The woman’s big round pregnant belly sticks out of her two piece bathing suit and good for her, it’s beautiful.
They settle into some poolside recliners close to where our towels are laid out, and lay there dozing in the sun.
I want to tell her, “Yo, sister….you are effectively searing any stretch marks you may be getting permanently onto your skin,” but…..it’s not my place, so I just let the couple sleep.
When it’s time to go, I call the kids out of the baby pool and as I’m drying off Seth I hear Riley yell loudly, “WAKE UP!”
She’s standing gleefully over the couple, who, startled, have practically fallen off of their chairs.
“RILEY!” I yell.
She shrinks into herself. There is confusion on her face, and remorse.
“I’m sorry,” I say to the couple.
“I’m sorry, Mommy,” Riley says to me.
“Riley, that isn’t nice. You don’t wake up people like that when they are trying to rest.”
I gather up our stuff quickly and head into the locker room, shaking my head.
It isn’t until the car ride home that I think about The Wiggles. It’s Seth’s favorite TV show and there is a character, Jeff, who always falls asleep. It is a big thrill for the preschool set to scream “WAKE UP JEFF!” a thousand times an episode.
Okay, I get it. It was funny.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Totally funny, even before the Wiggles connection. I can just picture Riley standing over this sleeping woman screaming WAKE UP. And it's soooooo perfect that the woman was pregnant. Her turn is just around the corner.
Riley just gave that couple a taste of the reality that is to come. You think that baby won't be waking them up with a yell of its own? :) We bought a pass to the local pool for the summer and it's such a fascinating place to people watch! I need to remember to bring my journal some time to write about the interesting "characters" there!
Now, be careful... I did the stomach tan for both babies...no stretch marks. Perhaps this is the difference between the upper classes and the peasant stock. I am of the latter! No stretch marks. But, I've since learned that it's like pure hell for the baby, in utero, to be exposed to direct sun. Like being boiled alive, apparently. Sorry baby(s). It's always something.
Well that explains it! I didn't get stretch marks either? (God threw us a bone, no?
Seriously, I don't think the sun causes them, but as with any scars, it's best to keep them out of the sun.
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