Monday, July 18, 2022

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Happy Monday! We are in the midst of a heat wave here, so it's feeling kind of Florida-like! Our high today is 100 and the humidity is pretty high. Keep in mind that our air temp can get as low as -15F, and even colder with the windchill. So well over a 100-degree range of temps in a year. Nuts, right? We tried to be outside as much as we could over the weekend! Here is how we filled out time.

On Friday, our friend came over for dinner. We went for a little stroll/scoot after dinner to get some of Paul's wiggles out. After Will went to bed, we played our favorite little kid game - First Orchard. It's more expensive than other little kid games - $30 - but the fruit is made out of wood and everything is very durable. It's a cooperative game so you all win or you all lose, which can be nice for young kids who are still working on accepting that they won't always win. It's a good way to work on colors and counting so I'd HIGHLY recommend it. And it's a FAST game - unlike games like hi-ho cherry-o or chutes and ladders that can go on forever! 


On Saturday morning, Phil got our car serviced early so we could head to the library when it opened at 9. After the library - where we checked out 28 books!! - we headed to gymnastics. Our Saturday mornings are pretty full, but it's nice to have some structure to our days. We don't "have" to go to the library every weekend but we've usually read everything we've checked out by then so need to get more books! 

Will took a depressingly short nap, despite our busy morning. 45 freaking minutes. He should be sleeping around 2 hours at this age! We had plans to meet up with my friend and her 2 kids at a splash pad so headed out. Paul LOVED the splash pad. It took Will a good hour to warm up to it but he eventually enjoyed the bubblers. 


On Sunday morning, I took Will to swimming lessons. They did their assessments and said he can move onto the 3rd baby level which kind of surprised me! Paul had to take 2 sessions of each level before he made it to level 3! We are going to take a little break from swimming lessons now that Will is in gymnastics. I want one weekend morning free to do things like go to the zoo. 

When I got home, Phil headed out to swim and I took the boys to a farmer's market and park. They got a donut to share and I had some yummy GF banana bread. It was SO HOT, though. Both boys had beat red faces and Paul was dripping with sweat so we didn't stay at the park for long. 


Luckily Will took a bit longer nap - 90 minutes, which is about as good as it gets for him. Paul and Phil headed to Phil's mom. I decided to keep Will indoors since he seemed to get SO HOT when we were outside that morning. Let me tell you - those 4.5 hours between when he woke from his nap and went to bed went very slow at times! But I was encouraged that he picked up a few books to page through! He has not been nearly as interested in reading as Paul was at this age, but hopefully he'll start to have more interest.


And that was a wrap! Paul and Phil were home by 7:30 and I was in bed by 8:30 reading. Will slept until 5:55 this morning and Paul slept until 6:20! Maybe/hopefully we are turning a corner on the early mornings?? That would be wonderful.

How was your weekend? Is it really hot where you live? I like summer but would love some days in the 80s with lower humidity!

8 comments:

Nicole said...

Sounds like a busy, fun weekend! It's been a "heat wave" here, but that is much, much lower than your temperatures. Like, our heat wave means temperatures in the high eighties. Today is quite chilly and rainy though.

Elisabeth said...

It has been hot here, too. I don't mind dry heat, but it has been quite humid and that's a tough combo.
We also have huge temperature differentials (we get it about as hot as possible in Canada as we live in a valley area)! From -35C with windchill to +40 with humidex, it's a wild ride.

Sounds like a fun weekend. If I learned one thing from the horror that with regard to naps/kids sleeping, it never pays to say "X SHOULD be sleeping X amount at this point." We always joked that our kids were the asterisk in all the baby books (for example, our kids HATED car seats and strollers, and they almost never fell asleep in them).

Grateful Kae said...

As you already know, it's hot here too! What MN does, WI does. :) Usually. I'm ok with it because I love the nice warm evenings. Although, with the heat and the humidity it usually means mad mosquitoes, so we can't really enjoy time out at night, anyway. sigh. I would rather have the heat and humidity NOW versus like, September. I feel that lately we have all this hot weather into September, and I get very over it by then. I like it hot in July, though. Do you guys have room for a sprinkler in your yard?? That's always fun!! Especially if they like the splash pad. We used to have several different fun sprinklers and they were nice to just turn on briefly for a heat break without the hassle of heading to the pool.

Jeanie said...

We're getting your heat this week, but not quite so bad. Do you mean Paul and gymnastics or is Will doing it now, too? They're such darling kids and I love that they like reading and books. Sounds like a great time. (I know what you mean about Chutes and Ladders.... forever!)

Suzanne said...

Your accounts of these busy busy weekends takes me back! (It does get easier, I promise.) Congrats to Will on his level 3 achievement! Hot here, too, but not as bad as 100 degrees.

Jenny said...

Oh yes, it's really hot here! I remember how hard summers with little kids can be- down here, lots of parks have little splash pad areas and we tried to go to as many of those as possible. Sounds like your weekend was nice despite the heat- glad you got a good night's sleep! Yes, maybe this is the end of your early morning problem.

Stephany said...

It is no fair that you have to deal with super cold/long winters AND Florida-like summers. You're having temps very close to what we're experiencing here! That's not how this should work!!! Ugh.

I'm glad you guys were able to get out to splash pads and libraries and place where you can enjoy being out and about without dying from the heat.

San said...

As you know, Sacramento gets very hot in the summer, but at least we have lower humidity. The humidity is killer! I don't envy you at all. But it sounds like you made the best of it. Your weekends always sounds so busy, but I guess that's normal with two young kids.