Hotter than Hades

Yet another sunshiney day here in Florida. I say sunshiney, but it's more like the hair frizziest, sweatiest heat ever. Florida. Is. Hot. I never thought I'd see the day when I wanted an overcast day vs. the constant beating sun. (you may need to remind me of this once Septemeber rolls in and we have monsoon season).
We enjoyed some fun by the pool. Lots of swimming, even more poolside jumping. Bryn has gotten very creative in her jumps. A big pool rule is no diving, so Bryn does everything but.





Of course whatever Bryn does, Ava feels she needs to try as well. Although she prefers to jump into the pool with her "lifety saver".




After a nice afternoon siesta, Bryn decided to strum away on her new guitar...actually its her Dad's new guitar and came as quite the surprise when it arrived via USP at my door. Tom insists that he got it for the girls. His plan almost worked because Bryn can actually strum a few notes (and it macthes my bedding, so it's not all bad). That, and the fact that I made Tom promise to play Hendrix's "Hey Joe" for me once and awhile, as I love me a good Hendrix song.

Did I mention that Yoda I live with?

Yoda = Ava.
My almost 2.5 year old is a chatterbox. The thing that cracks me up is she sounds like a cross between Yoda and Forrest Gump. For example, when I ask her, "Ava, what would you like to do today?" She answers with "I want go to pooooool to swimmiiiiing!"
I have to listen to her everyday, so I am pretty fluent in "Ava". I can put almost any pronoun anywhere in a sentence and it still makes sense to me. However, Ava's poor father may have to take a course soon to understand her drawn out rants.
One of my other favorite Ava-isms is she adds "s" on most of her words. I don't know there is any particular reason for it, other than making everything more difficult than she has to (but I like her flare for creative phonetics).
An argument I get to endure everyday (complete with flailing noodle appendenges)- "I go not takes a naps". Although it sounds more like this- "I GOOOOES NOOOOOOOT TAKES A NAAAAAAAPSSSSSSS"!! Yeah, good times.

Ava is also very clever with naming her animals. Her frog is aptly named "Froggy", her dolplin is named "Dolphiny" and even herr lizard is, you guessed it,"Lizardy".

Ava-y, yous smiles put my face on and I admires yours mad naming skillz (my little popsicle-face)!

Like A Mermaid

Bryn is almost 4.5 years old now and she swims like a fish....I mean, a mermaid(she will appreciate the mermaid reference). Since my husband bought her this cute pink snorkel set, all the girl does is swim around the pool looking for things to pick up from the bottom. In fact, her swimming has improved so much, that I think the Red Cross should use a snorkel for swim training. Sometimes I even have to be sure she's actually alive with the terrifying length of time she can just float (with the snorkel) in the water.




Now Miss Ava on the other hand, thinks she can swim. She will plunge her little 2 year old self into the pool trusting that I will be there to catch her and keep her from drowning. Ava's method is a little less orthodox as she truly believes that she is just swimming underwater and not in fact mere seconds away from drowning. (I should also mention at this time that I think the stress of taking 2 small kids to a pool has taken about 5 years of my life).

The So Called Lazy Days of Summer

They say that summer is a time for some R&R. As a Stay at Home Mom, I find that we do anything but stay at home. Our days are full of a whole lot of nothing. I say "nothing" because it's not like we really have to do anything. Rather, we spend our time running from the air conditioned gym in the morning to the pool or to the ocean. This is one of the things I love the most about Florida. We can hop into our car and drive to the ocean. Where we find things like this:

And Bryn and Ava get to do things like this:

Of course, after a fun-filled hour or two at the beach (where it is hotter than Hades, I might add), I spend the next 2 days getting sand out if places where it does not belong. And my car always shows traces of sand hidden in the crevices, or the odd fishy smelling sea shell here and there.

But, I don't mind. Florida is darned hot. It's so hot and humid in the summer that we have to be indoors where its air conditioned or up to our ears in water to keep from withering up and dying. Seriously. I do not know how people lived (or even do live) here in the dog days without air conditioning. I turn ours on as soon as the heat hits about 70 degrees.

Yep, I enjoy the Florida style summertime, but life with 2 youngins' is anything but lazy!