Is it summer or winter?

People who know me well will be surprised to hear me say this... It is so hot right now all we can do is sit in the air conditioning! I know, I know, I always say the heat doesn't really bother me, but it is HOT in DC right now. Consequently, it feels like winter again because playing outside is not really an option. So what have we been up to this week?

Well, we have been to the pool twice this week. That has been great. BUT, the concrete is so hot that Anna can't walk on it. So we just tried to stay IN the pool. And when we got back to the car, the seats were so hot that Anna & Abby couldn't get into them. So I doused them in water and swung Abby's around in the air :) And then I learned: windows down and blankets over the seats for any further car adventures.

We've been to the grocery store 3 times...just for something to do. Our 3rd trip was so not serious (we were there to buy 4 things). I let the girls test drive the car cart. (Thinking that if it was a disaster the trip was not really necessary anyway.) It turns out the car worked great! They both spent the whole trip spinning their steering wheels, beeping their horns, waving at people, and not bothering each other. I made them pose for an outdoor picture so I could get a good shot on my phone:

can you tell we're a little hot?

One day we went to the indoor playground at the mall. If every child was not dressed in shorts in a t-shirt, you would have believed it was Christmas time. I think every child in a 5 mile radius of the mall was there. But the kids still had a great time romping around.

And finally today we pulled out the real winter claustrophobia creativity. We spent the whole afternoon constructing and deconstructing with couch cushions: flopping, bouncing, doing gymnastics, and building "reading tents."

thanks for the reading tent, mom!

Well, hopefully it will cool down just a little soon. If not, we're off to upstate NY for a week where we certainly we be able to go back to enjoying "summer."