The Heat

Claire

We let her bring the bikes, scooter, and shopping carts that normally are outside inside when she cleans up her toys so they can play with them out of the heat. I've made a parking lot with painting tape against the TV wall so they aren't just hanging out all over the living room. Claire has mastered the double shopping cart technique when transporting her toys back to the playroom even though sometimes the parking lot gets forgotten. Our reading time is going well and she likes to have all her stuffed animals read with us too! When the timer is up Claire will immediately yell "yay" in protest of having to whisper for the last hour, you read that right, we are up to an hour of quiet reading time! 

Shay

There were two days this week that Shay didn't take a nap at all! I can't believe how much she is growing and learning trying to gain more independence from baby life. She doesn't complain during our quiet reading time but she often forgets what quiet means and will do a squeal of excitement while reading a book. Potty training is going really well this week and she holds herself and says 'oddy' which is her way of saying potty to tell me. Even Claire tells me when she needs to potty so I don't know when they will grow out of having to announce it to the world (especially in church). I put her in a diaper for church because I would feel terrible if there was an accident, but she insisted we leave sacrament to use the bathroom. It'll only keep getting better and it will be really nice to not need diapers anymore! She is able to find her own entertainment on occasions when Claire is busing doing other things and had fun with flashlight finding.

Temperature

I first wanted to talk about how hot it has been this past week and specifically how bad the last three days have been with the first heatwave of the summer. We had temperatures raise to 112 yesterday and don't look like they will go back under 90s for a while. The power bill would be really bad if we tried running the AC too often so we've been using fans and opening the windows to utilize the breeze as a way of staying cool. We also let the girls hang out in minimal cloths when no one else is coming to visit and we aren't going out. They also tend to get their cloths wet if they are wearing anything because we play in the water in the backyard as entertainment in the mornings before it is too hot and in the evenings when we have shade. Eating cool watermelon, popsicles, and drinking ice cold drinks are other fan favorites in this house and if I don't pre cut the watermelon Chris gets carried away with his slices.