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No Excessive Heat Warning

Ah...relief at long last. Today there is no excessive heat warning and to be perfectly honestly it was downright pleasant outside this morning. Much enjoyed by the kiddos that have been cooped up too much lately! So they played outside for a while and they played hard.

They slid on the slide, played in the sandbox and were having tons of fun. And now they are all sound asleep...yes, a nice day. And so I actually have a few minutes to blog...and even pictures! So here is our weekend, in reverse (not enough time or ambition to put them in the proper order) Emily looking for her first geocache. We found it and she was still looking under the bridge probably thinking my parents are nuts!

The playground was loads of fun...tunnels and slides what more could a kid want?

Backyard fun with our best friends.

A rare family photo at Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead on Saturday

The goat was trying to eat the stroller which is why she is leaning to the other side

Aren't they cute?

This could have tons of captions, I'll let you add your own.

Feeding the ducks was a highlight.

She enjoyed the baby goats until....

Four of them had her shirt in their mouths.

And a hot day last week Emily had a bomb pop (a mess was more like it but she enjoyed it!)

Is it Fall yet???

Ok, so some of you that live in the south may expect to fry eggs on your driveway on a regular basis, and hey, August is supposed to be hot, right? Yeah, doesn't matter, I'm sick of it. It has been a LONG HOT summer and even though I know the end is somewhere over the rainbow, I felt a need to share my opinion about the weather. Have you ever been cooped up with 4-6 little kids (mostly 1 year olds) and there are excessive heat warnings and one year olds get very crabby when they get hot so you don't let them play outside? That's my world these days. And...to top it off, I have been sticking to a budget very well lately, not spending unless absolutely necessary and then 1 pm rolled around today. Granted the spending was absolutely necessary. Not sure where above 100 the heat index was, but it was there. I'm getting the kiddos down for nap when I hear a weird noise. Oh no, please tell me that is the neighbors doing something (they might be out in this heat...after all instead of using a weedeater the lady uses scissors all around her house and fence) Nope, no neighbors, still the noise, which by this time I'm pretty sure what it is. An hour and a half and a couple hundred dollars later we are back up and cooling, which is good because the upstairs was nearing 90 degrees in that short amount of time. Now, it is almost cooled off in here, I really need to run the dryer and dishwasher, some things just can't be put off!

And just let me say, I have no desire for winter or snow, but how about a nice 72 degree day? I could definitely go for that about now!

Thud!

That was the sound that woke me up sunday morning, a nice loud thud. Followed my crying "My blankie" really loud. Hmm...that sure didnt sound like a blankie hitting the ground. And yes, she's got caught in the act of trying before so I knew the day was coming, but wasn't really ready for it. Emily was standing beside her bed crying for her blankie that hadn't made the escape with her. So Sunday afternoon her crib was converted into a big girl bed. Sunday night, she got up 4 times carrying 5 blankies and her gloworm each time. (yeah and you try laying down in a toddler bed to get her back to sleep!) So I was tired. MOnday night. She gets up 3 times, carrying all her essentials. Tuesday -- debate over going back to a crib. Decided to give it a week, because I really dont want her falling out of the crib. Tuesday night. Didn't get up until 515 and so we just let her lay down in our bed with us til it was time to get up. This morning. I woke up about 10 minutes before my alarm was to go off (at 6) I heard Emily coughing. Then wait, that sounded too close. When I got up she was sitting on the couch with all her blankies (glowie got to stay in bed this time) drinking from her sippy cup from last night. And so I wonder....how long had she been up? She didnt get into anything and I got to sleep so really I think Im ok with that!

Video at last

It took two days but here it is. My file was too big so I've played around and hopefully got it viewable...i had to shrink it big time and edit some but you should be able to see it. I thought it was pretty funny. And yes, the slide cost an entire dollar!

Garage Sale for $1

Here's Emily enjoying my recent garage sale find. It will go outside once it is cool enough to actually use up our energy outside, but it is working well inside right now.

She's kinda silly.


ok, stay tuned for the video...it keeps giving me error messages and I'm about out of time. I'll try to post later.

Out of the Ordinary

Ordinary day in my life...try not to knowingly do something stupid that I am positive I will regret later.

Out of the ordinary day...know something is stupid and that I'll regret it later yet I do it anyway. That was Saturday. I was doing yard work. Nothing wrong with that, we had a TREE growing in our raised flower bed against the house (which suprisingly enough once removed I discovered I even had a few flowers!) and a couple cottonwoods (not the best yard tree) that needed some pruning. So maybe July isnt the best time for that but hey, I happened to have free time in July so I did it. Anyway, while pruning the cottonwood, I saw that I had some poison ivy growing. Yes, I am positive it was poison ivy and was even positive it was poison ivy on Saturday when this work was taking place. I've spent my whole life avoiding this pretty little three leaf demon plant. But....Emily was with me and she was "helping" mommy pick up branches. Knowing what poison ivy does to me, I didn't really want to find out if my precious one year old was like her mommy in that respect so without further ado....I just plucked it up and shoved it in my bag getting it out of her reach as quickly as possible. (mental note to self...if bag gets burned, AVOID SMOKE) Then I forgot. Forgot that the wise thing to do would be to go inside, grab the dawn and wash up. By the time I finished my yard work, I had totally 100% forgotten about the poison ivy incident. Fast forward a few days....I have had to take my wedding ring off temporarily because of the pretty little rash covering my finger. I've got a beautiful (yes I'm being sarcastic) line right across teh middle of my forehead, some on my neck and several splotches on my arm. I know it is a good food for wildlife (of which there is very little in my backyard...the robins are happy with worms!) but do you ever wonder why God didn't just make deer love something a little less itchy????

So, this week....I'm going out at naptime for a few minutes with my bottle of poison ivy roundup. I'll win:)