Wednesday, July 6th, 2005: Went swimming at the Roxana pool today instead of Wood River. I’ve never been there before. They have the dumbest rules. You can’t have toy balls in the pool. So, no playing catch. I asked the lifeguard why and she said someone might get hurt with them. Can’t argue with that. Then awhile later, she told Payton he couldn’t wear his goggles. Because someone might kick him in the face and they would break his nose. That’s what the lifeguard told me. Anyway, we stayed there all afternoon and had a good time, despite the weird rules. Payton started swimming lessons this week. He’s afraid to learn and afraid of the deep end. But he did okay. I even got him to put his head underwater a bunch at Roxana with no goggles on.

Tonight me, the kids and Casey went to Burger King. Payton had a dream last night that the Fantastic 4 toys were at Burger King now - that was the first thing he told me when he woke up. So we went to Burger King only to find crappy old Star Wars toys.

Payton’s quote of the day: “Daddy, why does she think that shit is bananas??” - while listening to that Gwen Stefani song on the drive home from BK.