Easter and Birthday Continued

This is Sarah on her trampoline in the backyard. That thing is so big it practically covers the whole yard!
This is a continuation of the Easter/Birthday celebration written yesterday.
I have a theory why Sarah writes her name with a backward S. All the other letters in her name start on the left. During the birthday party, the little ones, 3 of them, Sarah, Austin and Lottie, Doug’s niece who is 2, got into their bathing suits and Doug had some type of toy hose, about 5 feet long, and you attach it to the hose and water comes out of everywhere and the kids run through it screaming. What fun!

At some point I had been outside and went inside into the living room and here were 4 people who had never used a jump rope. Mitchell and Colton were turning the rope and Sarah and Austin were trying to jump the rope, with no success whatsoever. I asked Mitch and Colton if they’d ever done this before, and the answer was no. I was not surprised because they were doing it backward. They started with the rope in front of the jumpers and they turned the rope so it landed behind the jumpers and they would yell JUMP. I don’t have to tell you that they always just got tangled in the rope. So I told the 2 rope turners to begin with the rope behind the jumpers and turn it toward the front of the jumpers so that they could see for themselves when to jump, and perhaps that would work better. SUCCESS! Sarah did 4 successful jumps and Austin did 1. Now everybody learned something. A good time was had by all!