Joshua's Day Camp. Or, WHAT Is THAT in the POOL?

Joshua has been enjoying the Therapeutic Recreation (TR) summer day camp. He gets to see most of his regular friends, but there's also some new ones.

There's the "shy guhl" (girl). He doesn't know her name, just that she's shy.

There's the "medium-set" guhl. He's heard people described as being "heavy-set." This girl is "medium-set."

And there are two Brandons.

This morning, we were talking about two of the FRIENDS, Crystal and Brandon, and he said, "which Brandon? We have two. We have Mrs. Angel's Brandon and Crystal's Brandon."

I said, "well, Mrs. Angel's Brandon is brown, and Crystal's Brandon is white, so you should be able to pick out which one I'm talking about if I'M TALKING ABOUT CRYSTAL."

He said, "uhhh...Mrs. Angel's Brandon is BLACK. But both of them are preh-TEE HAIRY."

And, lest everyone think that "they" are "so loving" all the time, Joshua said there was one girl in the kid group...the one Clark is working with...who "gets on his last nehve (nerve)."

I told him that maybe she didn't mean to act ugly, and for him to be nice...and maybe avoid being around her if he could.

He said, "that's my plan."

This morning, his group went swimming. The staff likes for the FRIENDS to come dressed for swimming, because it takes SO LONG for them to change. Joshua was wearing his swimsuit and a white t-shirt. On swim days, he packs a bag with his extra clothes, shoes, sunscreen and a towel.

Part-way through our drive down to Little Rock he pats his leg and says, "I am wearing my SPEEDO under my swimsuit."

Now, what he calls his "Speedo," is a pair of black sliding shorts. Compression shorts. My boys have worn them under their football, baseball, basketball, soccer and track uniforms for years. Joshua has one pair that he wears with his weight-lifting suit during competitions. For some reason, that none of us know, he has always called it his Speedo.

And my other boys, and their sister...and my son-in-law...their mouths dropped OPEN one day when Joshua casually strolled out to the pool with that thing on...AND NOTHING ELSE.

Because it's very "fitting."

I promise we don't let him wear it out there if we have "company."

Anyway, he said he was wearing his Speedo under his swimsuit because he didn't like the "little pink lines" his swimsuit left in "this area." And he did air-quotes over "this area," and pointed to the area around his waist.

"ish"

I told him that the little pink lines were probably from the elastic in the swimsuit, but he said it was "annoying," and that he was going to wear his Speedo under it from now on.

Oooooooooooookay.

IN OTHER NEWS: Clark texted me at lunch to report that today at the pool (the kid group he works with and Joshua's adult group are there at the same time), one of the boys in the kid group "had diarrhea in the pool," and everyone had to get out of the pool. He said, "like, everyone...even other people not associated with the Therapeutic Recreation day camp."

Well, I should say SO.

Joshua didn't know what happened. He said he thought someone "HACKED" in the pool.

Anyway, Clark went into great and graphic detail LIKE BOYS LIKE TO DO, but just suffice it to say that the boy had "it" all over him and "it" was all in the water...and all of the FRIENDS were blissfully unaware of the situation, and were laughing and splashing and swimming around...all of "it."

(GULP)

And now I must go scrub down everything in my house with Lysol and rubbing alcohol...and take an anti-nausea pill.

"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:21