You know what?

I recently discovered that my daughter Cassadie is a great swimmer. I knew she could swim well because she's been swimming with my mom since she was about 4 years old, but I had no idea how much her skills had developed. She is fast! Angela and Beckie can attest to her speed and strength since she beat them both racing across a pool when we visited them during labor day weekend. We were all very much surprised and watched as her head began to swell with pride. She raced Alex and he beat her (thank goodness), but he was quite winded when he finished. Anyway, inspired by the summer Olympics, I went about finding a swim team she could join. We found one in Yakima, and I sent an email to the to coach. He responded to my email and told me to bring her to a practice so we could see if she liked it and he could see her swim. She did great, she loved it, he was great, and her freestyle stroke looked just like the rest of them when the hour was over. I masked my excitement, but really I was exstatic! He told me what I already knew which was that she could be really good if she works hard. He said she's strong and learns fast. Apparently at one point she told him this was the hardest practice she had ever been to. She was exhausted, but she had a blast!

We went to Costco on our way home so I could pick up some new chairs (which are super cute and go great with my wall color). While I was in the check out, Cassadie went to get herself a piece of pizza - she LOVES Costco pizza. I headed out to the car with my chairs and thought Cassadie saw me and would follow when she got her pizza. The cart pusher helped me get them in the back of my Jeep after removing the boxes (this is the only way they would fit). This is when I realized that Cassadie had never come out of the store. I left him to pick up the debrit and headed back to the store to find her. She was waiting by the door, but apparently had been pacing back and forth to the food counter for the 10 or so minutes it had taken us to get the chairs in my Jeep. She was very upset and thought that I had left her. She said that at one point she had thought about asking someone to use a phone and call my cell phone. I told her that was a great idea and next time she should just walk up to the person who checks your receipt and say "Hey, you know what? I'm not sure where my mom is, is there a phone I could use?" She chuckled at this and said "You adults and your "you know what"!" She proceeded to explain that her teacher had used the phrase when she was telling them how to tell their neighbor to be quiet during an assembly. She had said something like "You know what? Maybe you should be quiet." I told her adults use the "you know what" phrase to make it sound more casual. We told this to story to Alex and Jarod when we got home. Jarod did not agree with my assessment of the use of the "you know what" phrase. He thought adults use it more like "You Know What! I'm gonna spank you!" We all had a good laugh.