Hot, HOt, HOT!

We had dinner tonight at the local pizza joint (aka, Brooklyn Joe's) and then took a trip over to the park for a little playtime before it got dark. This is the first time that we have been to the park in weeks (besides a short visit on the 4th of July since we watched fireworks at a park). It is just too dang HOT! Even tonight at 8:00PM it was still 88 degrees outside, which actually didn't feel too bad considering it was 100 to 105 today with the heat index.

After chasing balls, dogs, rocks, and sticks in the grassy field at the park, little man was sweating and his face was flushed. He didn't seem to mind though and moved right on to the playground. Boy has he gotten more independent since our last visit ... he went down the slides all by himself {smile, tear}! Anyway, once we got home, Ryan decided some water out of David's COLD water bottle sounded better than out of his sippy cup so he helped himself ...

and, he did very well until the end :) I will say that he has gotten quite good at drinking out of straws lately as he prefers to have whatever you happen to be drinking (tea, coffee, milk, juice, water, doesn't matter). I believe this was his very first attempt with a water bottle all by himself though. Pretty good for a first try! Who knows, maybe the soaking of his shirt was on purpose as I am sure that cooled him off nicely :) But, just in case it didn't, he also enjoyed a strawberry snowstorm fruit chiller after his water.

So, I can assure you that he is nice and cooled off for now {and even clean and ready for bed, thanks to the shower he just had}. And, yes, (1) he is still awake at 1o:00PM, and (2) I am aware that this is not normal. All I can tell you is that it works for us and we will thoroughly enjoy sleeping in tomorrow morning!

We hope you have a great weekend and manage to stay cool :)