Vaca

I just posted our vacation pictures on Facebook. You can view them here: It just takes too doggone long to upload them to Blogger!

There's one story that I hope I can articulate. Jonah and Lydia went tubing for the first time. They both enjoyed it. On our final boat trip we asked Jonah what he wanted to do one last time. Did he want to get on the jet ski or go tubing? He wanted to ride the tube by himself.

He knew that a "thumbs up" was the signal for going faster. Throughout his whole ride, he had his thumb up in the air. That, alone, caused me to giggle. Ashley's sister was driving and was pretty timid about going too fast for him-- especially after Lydia had bounced six feet in the air before diving head first in the water moments before!

So during his inaugural solo ride, he was sitting in the tube with his thumb up in the air as we were cruising through the lake back to the dock. After about five minutes, he put his thumb down...but wait... it was back in the air. Oh no. It was back down again....then it was back in the air!

His eyes were closed from water spraying his face. I could tell that it was probably a little hard to breathe because of the water spraying, but he just kept switching back and forth between a thumbs up and a thumbs down.

At this point, we were all giggling at his determination and desire for a fast, adventure-filled ride. Suddenly he leaned over the front of the tube. Oh no. Was he going to vomit? Jonah doesn't have motion sickness. What was wrong?

STOP THE BOAT!

He sat up tall and held his left arm in the air with his elbow a little bent.

He was giving us a signal. What did it mean?

Wait. There were hand signals printed on the tube!

He was leaning over the front, reading the hand signals! In the midst of trying to get a breath while water-- as he said later was "stinging his eyes,"-- he was reading the tube to give us the proper hand signal :)

Totally Jonah.

As he climbed back on the boat with a big smile on his face, we asked what his hand signal represented.

GO BACK TO THE DOCK.

Of course it did.