Today Marcela took Maxim to her first gymnastics class of the fall term. Maxim got to jump on the big trampoline and Marcela said Noah wanted to go into the gym and play too. They sat outside with the other mothers and siblings and watched. The three played the memory game in the afternoon and then Maxim and Noah slept a good nap while Marcela painted a couple more windows with the trim paint. The kids looked tired when they picked me up at the train station; Noah had just woken up and was a little bit grumpy. Maxim was in a good mood and told me she only didn't listen to her Mom twice today, "Once when I pinched Noah and one time when I pushed him," Maxim told me. It was so warm today that we pulled out the kiddie pool when we got home and the kids put on their bathing suits. Maxim, Noah, and, a little later, Catherine, played games in the water that included the slide and the business cards from the house next door's for sale sign. You can see the results of that game still drying in the lawn in the photograph above. You can also see the ladder stretching up to the very tippy top of the of the roof, the highest point we have to paint on the house. We finished three sides now, north, east, and south and have about half of the front finished. The front is more difficult because it gets sun during the longest stretch of day, and you really shouldn't paint in direct sunlight. We also finished the frame around the kitchen door and the top of the triangle of trim on back. "No one paints their house themselves anymore," Cynthia, our neighbor from the bikeshop, remarked as she was out walking her new dog. "Not no one," I thought.