(There is a tennis court sharing a fence, so many stray balls end up on the pool deck, much to Eli's delight.) We ordered a pizza for lunch so we wouldn't have to leave the pool, and as usual, Eli ate just as much as we did (two full pieces). Maddux slept most of the time, but not before she got her first sunburn, just under her eyes. I had a hat on her and I kept her in the shade most of the time, but I did hold her by the pool for about ten minutes and that did it. It's crazy how the reflection off the water came up and got her cheeks - I feel sick about it!After Eli's nap we all went downtown. Or as Eli calls it,
"tahn-tahn". I've wanted to bring Eli to Centennial Olympic Park all summer so he could see, and play in, the fountains near the CNN Center. Being pregnant and tired, that never happened before Maddux was born. Then it got too hot, so on and so on... We put Maddux in the BOB for the first time and let Eli walk with us, holding hands to cross the street of course. She seemed to like her ride, but Eli got a little confused as to why she was in the stroller and he was on foot. Once he saw the water, it was all good. He yelled, "Dah-der!" and didn't stop until we changed him into his baggies. (That is another new word also: "baggies".) He ran in and out of the fountains for a good ten minutes before he inevitably slipped and fell. As usual, he fell on his back and hit his head. There weren't any marks, so we 
just thought it scared him, but Eli refused to return to the water the rest of the afternoon, so it must have hurt more than we thought. He did enjoy watching the other kids play, and eventually we walked around so he could chase birds ("cah-ts" or catch the birds) and people-watch. They had a water 'show' just before we left: music and choreographed water activity. Eli watched intently the entire time, but didn't get really animated until the last song when the water shot up in the air much higher than it had previously. As soon as the water went up he said, "HIGH!! DAH-DER!!" (He's recently learned 'high' through stacking blocks and hitting the ball or balloon 'high'.) Now when 
he sees the pictures of the park he repeats, "high...dah-der."One last thing: I tried to teach Eli to raise his hands in the air when he goes over a bridge, but it hasn't worked so far as Eli usually can't tell when we are going over a bridge in the car due to his limited vantage point. So instead, he raised them when we go under a bridge. ("Uh-der. Bridd-ah.")
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