Summertime Fun - Beating the Heat

We're starting our second week of summer vacation and have been quite busy! But it never fails, Memorial Day and Ethan fell asleep at dinnertime. This kid has fallen asleep just before dinner at EVERY holiday since Thanksgiving! We kicked off our summer with a BBQ with friends and a trip to the pool. We've actually spent almost every evening at the pool since it's opened due to the heat (we're already in the 90s and mostly the upper 90s!).

Here is Wyatt's first attempt at coloring. He loved it and did really good at first. Then all he wanted to do was eat the crayons. Everything goes in this kid's mouth.

Jack decided he wanted to have a "water stand" instead of a lemonade stand. So he filled the cooler up with water, got a bowl full of ice, a pitcher and some cups, then made a flag to wave down his friends. It was pretty cute!

It's been so hot here lately that the best way for the boys (and by the boys I mean mostly Daddy) to stay cool is to hang out in the basement and take naps! Normally I would protest, as it makes it harder for Wyatt to go to sleep at night, but since we're usually at the pool until 8:30p it works out well.
It was cute to come downstairs and find them all sacked out in different positions! I thought they were being awfully quiet down there.....

We continued with our playing in the dirt this weekend. We added four tomato plants and four green pepper plants in the backyard, next to our strawberry patch. Jack enjoyed helping out.

It was all we could do to keep Wyatt away from the unripe strawberries. We'll never get good ones at this rate...

Wyatt's favorite thing these days is to climb UP the slide (and yes, he can climb all the way up). I need to get better about being the mom of three boys - everything makes me nervous!

Ethan wasn't really in the mood to be involved, but Jack and Wyatt were right in the thick of things.

We then moved in to the front yard to add more color. The morning started off nice and cool but the humidity snuck up on us rather quickly. We have a couple more to plant but I think we'll wait for another cool morning before we do...

We added some delphinium and some Starburst Ice plants.

Then later in the evening, Jack and Daddy planted some watermelon. We're going to start them inside first before moving them out into the garden in back.

Wyatt and Ethan played nicely at first...

But Wyatt quickly got up to no good!

But he found a good way to keep himself cool.

He found Jack's water stand, took a cup, filled it up with water from the cooler and dumped it over his head!

Then Ethan wanted to cool off by playing in the water in the driveway. And Jack had to dump water on himself too - if Wyatt is going to do you know Jack is not far behind!