forcast says tears

While all of my siblings were in town we hit the local outdoor pool for a little swim. Now normally this would have been Gwen's scene, but the last few days have been a little rough on her. So while Harrison hit the water with my sister Lisa,
and all of the other cousins swam like the fishes...
Gwen cried and cried on the side lines...
until my brother Spencer was finally able to coax her into the pool, saving the day.
On Sunday we were all together again and we had our family photos, and we had a terrible repeat of the pool. But this time there was no coaxing Gwen into the photos, she just cried and cried. So I know that we pretty much ruined that photo for my six other siblings. Sorry everyone. But true to Gwen form after the pictures were taken she was off to the park to play in the sand,
with no tears. I guess that she just needed some alone time to process all the events of the last few days.
I guess I should have known that family pictures were going to be tricky, maybe next time I will make sure that they have naps first. On a really funny note my brother took some video of Gwen screaming while they were doing just the kids photo, and I will have to see if he can send it to me. I guess that everyone else was laughing at the situation as I was trying to calm her down. Then this morning Gwen woke up and I was getting Harrison ready to eat and she dropped something and yelled, "Oh for goodness sakes". I didn't even know that she knew that phrase. It was pretty funny.