Too Hot

According to my phone, it's already 84 degrees (at 10:38 this morning) and it's supposed to go up to 105 today. And 102 tomorrow. And then it's supposed to "cool off" to 99 for a few days. I am submitting my prayer to the gods of air conditioning now:

Dear gods of air conditioning,

 Please let the second floor air conditioner work surprisingly well during this heat wave. Please also let the second floor air conditioner at our rental house work surprisingly well during this heat wave.

Amen.

The Boy and the Dog are Growing

Mid-Week Update

1. Mysterious sore throat illness - Joel has been sick for a week with a mysterious sore throat/ cough, and now Ben has it. He stayed home from camp Monday and came home at lunch time yesterday. No symptoms except a bad sore throat and a hoarse voice / cough. I dosed him up and sent him back to camp again this morning, wondering if he'll make it through a full day this time...

2. A hearty congratulations to our friends Eric and Joanna, who finally sold their house after a little over 3 months and 72 showings. (I cannot imagine going through 72 showings, I called it quits in the 30s somewhere).

3. Work - it's crazy busy! I was looking over my notes from yesterday in preparation for today's weekly meeting, and realized I worked on 12 different things yesterday. This despite having to go pick up Ben in the middle of the day, and then having to go back out to get Rebecca at 4 and Caroline at 5. No wonder my head was spinning last night and I was wondering around the house doing random chores at 10pm because my brain would not settle down.

4. I can't think of anything else right now! Pretty lame blog post, oh well.

My girls

This was the first time I put both the girls in the tub together. It went very well until, shortly after I took this picture, an over-enthusiastic Rebecca splashed water directly in Caroline's face. Caroline was not perturbed, but I was slightly annoyed.

Birthday Sleepover

Yesterday was Ben's birthday sleepover - he and four friends spent the evening trading Pokemon cards, playing video games, trading Pokemon cards, watching a movie, trading Pokemon cards... Here they are, trading Pokemon cards with a pint-sized observer.... I have some other pictures that'll I'll get around to uploading at some point. They fell asleep at varying times ranging from 10pm to 1am, and were all up at 7. All things considered, it went very well - there were no arguments needing parental intervention, everyone seemed to have a good time, etc. And Joel and I survived having 7 kids from 3pm until 10am, which I consider to be quite an accomplishment... especially considering Joel was working this weekend so he went to bed early last night and got up early to go to work this morning.

Stickers

Rebecca decided Caroline's helmet could use a little pizazz- and what better way to add pizazz than with sparkly princess stickers?

Glow in the Dark

Toothbrushes.