Shiners and sprinklers

(Pictures of Kai are all a motion blur, you'll have to settle for more Nins...)
Trying not to feel guilty about Kai. Argh! We're not handling this right. The best parenting advice I've ever gotten was from Rebecca, who told me it's never too late to change the way you parent. That little nugget saves me. Today was one of those days for Kai - one of many lately - when he can't focus on the task at hand for more than 1 minute. I should have grabbed him every 5 minutes and had an intense tickle fight. Or taken him to the park all morning. Or forced him out of the house for a long bike ride. Instead, Nina napped and Kai and I struggled.
Howevs....
We had some fun. Kai is into Uno, played that. Went to an amazing place called Art Beast which is essentially a hands-on museum for the arts. Kai had his 4th YMCA swim lesson and he's getting pretty darn good at the back float. (Nina is MAD that she isn't in the water!)
If you could have seen my little cherub Kai today, dressed up in a much-too-small-Winnie-the-Pooh costume, dressed in yellow fuzz from head to knees, asking anybody around if they would be Tigger to his Pooh. All you could see was his eyes to chin and shin to foot. Heartbreaking. One little girl came up to me with the Tigger costume and said, "You'll have to be Tigger for him. I have to go."
We got to the Y and the Gentilly born-and-bred gal commented on his NOLA Hornets t-shirt (always representing). Instead of breaking into the lineup he said, "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My dad, he watches the new orleans hornets all the time. And I played Pooh at Art Beast."
Nina bonked her head hard on the corner while I was on the phone. Then at Art Beast she took a terrifying tumble down the stairs while I was trying to wipe dirt off of Kai's smelly cheese stick. (I have a love-hate relationship with cheese sticks - can't live with 'em can't live without 'em.)
The night ended with romping through the sprinkler with Nate. Nina is a bit afraid of the sprinkler, as you'll see in the clip.
The other day Kai said to me, "I miss Michigan."
He also said, "No, YOU clean it up!" and "Nina did it!" and "You love me even when I'm naughty." Heck yeah.