Old wives tales...

There are so many old wives tales. You know like, if you break a mirror you will have seven years of bad luck, never walk under a ladder it is bad luck, you will have bad luck if a black cat crosses your path ( i am starting to think the old wives wanted everyone to have bad luck) HA!. Then you have the ones i am most familiar with, drinking castor oil will induce labor, if you gain a lot of weight it is a girl,the swinging wedding ring over a pregnant tummy to determine the gender, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, if you blow all your birthday candles out on the first try your wish will come true, if your ears are burning someone is talking about you. Okay i am sure you get the point.

Finally comes the most important one of all, DO NOT SWIM FOR 30 MINUTES AFTER YOU EAT.

Here is why....

We picked up Eric from the airport yesterday. His flight happened to get in a dinnertime. I held the kids off with a few cookies and we stopped at Mcdonalds (where else would you stop with four kids). Bathroom breaks and then our order. The kids were so excited about Eric being home and were eager to share the small advances they had made in their swimming lessons. They all began asking if they could go swimming when we got home. It was already six o'clock so in order to swim while we still had some heat from the sun we agreed to eat in the car and swim when we got home. I guess they finished up about 10 minutes before we got home. When we parked and opened the car doors three sets of feet hit the ground running. Ella, Jack and John quickly changed into their swimsuits, Ben just stripped naked. We were all in the pool for 10 or 15 minutes. The kids had on their swimmies and were jumping in from every side of the pool. They like to be thrown so Eric and i start thrown. Up and splash. THey pop up like little buoys in the water and come back for more. All of the sudden we hear like a loud belch coming from John. He said he was fine. We thought he just sucked in some water. I turn around and hear him belch behind me again then the sound of a...waterfall. That can't be right. I turn and he is vomiting in the pool. What do you do when you kid is puking in your pool and you are ALL in it???? I throw John out on the side of the pool. Good thing he finished before i got him out. Eric and i start yelling at Ella and Jack to get out. They don't seem to get it. They thought they could just go swim in the deep end. We called it a night and sent everyone in for a bath. I stayed behind to fish chicken nugget chunks and french fries out of the pool. John stayed with me. When i got the chunks out he insisted it was clean enough to get back in. I just looked at him and said not tonight and NEVER after eating!

There are no pictures mainly because i am camera less at the moment (another great John story) and it isn't anything you want to see. HA!