Pool Party

Here are the steps to an awesome backyard pool party!

1. Spend a ridiculous amount of time at Target in the seasonal aisle pondering all of the pool choices about 3 months before pool season.  Seriously contemplate a mini-waterpark sprinkler system.  Finally settle on a pretty basic inflatable:
   
2. Receive inflatable pools as gifts a few months later, including the mini-waterpark sprinkler system:
   
3. Decide that today is the day to use the baby pools.  Decide to start with the basic pool, get it out of the box, rolled out, and look for the pump.
4. Realize you forgot to pick up the pump when you stopped at your parents' house this morning because you got distracted by a new container of bubbles.  
5. Take a selfie blowing up the pool manually.
   
6. Decide that there will only be one pool today.
7. Let your child play in the pool without any water because she's getting irritable waiting for this party to happen.
   
8. Get out the hose and start filling.  Elicit help from your child to hold her attention.
   
9. Your child's attention fails and she finds something better to do in the meantime.
   
10. Plop your kid in only to discover that she won't go in unless you're in. 
11. Risk dropping phone in pool to get cute pictures.
    

Pool's open!  Come over!