Big Sis

Today, in honor of Jonathon's sisters b-day I'm going to share a Lindsey story. We have a HUGE extended family we get together with often. On this particular day we had all decided to go swimming at a local rec center.
Jonathon was in autism heaven going down the same slide repeatedly with a ball. He liked seeing who would reach the bottom of the slide first, him or the ball. There were a couple of tween girls in the pool that day. The kind of girls who aren't actually there to swim. They just wanted to look good in the water.
Here came Jonathon down the slide for the 100th time, when one of these girls grabbed the ball he had been chasing all afternoon. Jonathon quickly said "ball please." The girl ignores him. He repeats himself, "ball please" and that little snit threw it at him!
My Mom claws instantly came out! I decided it wouldn't be appropriate for a grown woman to cannonball into the water and drown that little witch, so I set out to enlist Lindsey. She declined my idea, but says, "oh I have something better." She grabbed her cousin, Rachel, who was two at the time, and jumped into the pool. By now all of the extended family was lined up on the side of the pool intently watching to see what due this girl would pay! Lindsey pretended to "play" with her cousin, while she sauntered closer and closer to the offender and her cohort.
Once in place and "frolicking" right next to the tween girls I hear Lindsey yell out "OH MY GOD! RACHEL POOPED IN THE POOL! SHE POOPED IN THE POOL!"
Watching those two pool rats with a sheer look of poo panic was priceless! They could not get out of that water fast enough! So much for looking pretty! Had they stopped to listen or even look for a minute they would've heard Rachel saying "I not poop in the pool. I not poop in the pool!"
And they would've seen our family hysterically laughing so hard we could barely let the lifeguard know it was a false alarm!
Oh Lindsey! Your idea was so much better!