Do I Have Food on My Face

It has been hot and humid all week. So hot we don't really feel like doing anything. And mostly too hot to sleep. So... with Olivia being days away from 4 months old (when we gave Abby her first meal), I thought to myself, if I feed this kid maybe she will sleep all night and I won't have to be awake in the middle of the night in this miserable heat. Wrong. Instead, she fills her little belly in the evening and wakes me up even EARLIER at night. So weird! But, Olivia is a champ at her rice cereal and, as you can see by comparing pictures, she is a much neater eater than Abby.

Other than feeding kids, which is practically a full time job, we've been busy putting our home and lives back together after the scabies invasion. I finally have all the furniture and toys back into their homes. Now I just need to finish the laundry, which was a humongous pile since one person's entire dresser got sent down the chute. But I think I have only 4 or 5 loads left. If it weren't so humid I'd be working on them today. Instead I might just melt. Or maybe make some homemade ice cream. Hmmm.....

Beach Time

We have been busy lately trying to stay cool. And it has been hard work with temperatures in the upper 80's and no air conditioning. It would be a lot easier if we didn't have a little baby whose precious skin needs to stay out of the sun. Olivia has been beyond miserable with the heat. She wants held to be comforted, but that only makes her hotter and more uncomfortable. It is a bad cycle.

Abby would love to be at the beach all day. She loves being in the water and will willingly put all but her head under to keep cool. But there isn't a ton of shade there. I have to bring my own shade for her, which doesn't always work to well. On the bright side... if we do take a trip to the beach Abby will pass out for a good 2 hour nap. I even carried her back into the house and changed her diaper without waking her up on Monday after our beach outing.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a little cooler so we can do something besides laying around the house feeling like we are melting or sitting at the beach trying not to fry Olivia and trying to keep an eye on Abby with the huge crowds of people who are also just trying to cool off. This is only May... it could be a long summer.

Hot, Hot, Hot!

Here's one last picture from our camping trip. We sure had fun. It's too bad it was cool last week because the week we just survived was HOT! Today was 88 with about 90% humidity (okay... maybe not 90%, but it was high).

We got part of our bathroom project done, but then we ran into a little unexpected dilemma that we need to figure out. We didn't consider the huge, beautiful mop board when we picked a sink, so we need to get a trim board to attach to fill the gap between the wall and the cabinet and also figure out how to fill the gap between the sink basin and the wall. Overall though we made good progress for such a hot, muggy day. And we have a working toilet downstairs, so that is nice. So that we'd have potty stuff for Abby in each room we picked out a potty seat that fits onto the big toilet. True to her current obsession, we had to get the Dora the Explorer potty seat.

Now we have another hot night to get through and then we will see what adventures this week has in store for us. I'm sure it will be something exciting - it hardly seems we can go two days without something. And probably we will have lots of new words presented by Abby - yesterday's word was doctor and today's was taco.

Abbeeeeee

Here are some photo highlights of Abby's weekend. We had a very fun time visiting with Grandma Von and Grandpa Roy and Great Grandma Joyce. Abby showed them around our neck of the woods including Tahquamenon Falls and Lake Superior. Luckily it was a nice hot day to be outdoors enjoying God's handiwork!
Grandpa Roy, Grandma Von, Abby, and Great Grandma Joyce.
Abby found the mini-rocking chairs at the visitor's center in the Tahquamenon Falls State Park. She loves little furniture!
Abby's grandparents brought her up a vanity play set. She was nuts about it. She is going to be a true girlie girl. She wanted to sit on her vanity stool and stare at herself in the mirror, talk on the play phone, and put on her necklaces for about an hour straight. It was a lot of fun watching her play.

Last night Abby perfected saying her own name. She'd been working on it for a while, but now it really sounds like Abby (emphasis on the "ee"). We left our digital video camera at Grandma and Grandpa Hodges house so they could make a dvd of Courtnie and Nate's wedding, so we couldn't get video footage of the hilarity that goes on around here. Here new favorite words are Abby and Daddy - she just walks around randomly saying them.

It was ridiculously hot here yesterday. We moved to the Upper Peninsula and were very excited to be leaving the major heat. Neither of us particularly enjoys seeing 90 degree weather, but that is what we've had the last few days. It is supposed to reach 87 today, so Abby and I made play date plans for the beach. We spent a lot of time yesterday in her wading pool. And we had a hard night going to sleep since it was so hot and humid! Hope you can all stay cool today - we will sure be trying any way possible.

Dog Days of Summer

We hit 80 degrees again today. By my count that is 4 straight days. Finally... summer. Just in time for a great beach expedition tomorrow. Since Abby has now visited Lake Superior, we are going down the road in the opposite direction to try out Lake Huron. Should be perfect beach weather.

Abby attacked her piggy rattle today since it was the large animal auction at the Barry County Fair and her Aunt Hannah and Aunt Emily were busy selling hogs. We hope they remember to save some bacon for Abby, but it may be a while before she can eat it. Today she was very interested in the bowl of cereal I was having for breakfast, so I'm sure she'll be more than ready for rice cereal when we start that next month.

Happy weekend everyone - we hope it is cooler "downstate" than it has been lately!