Baby it's hot outside!

One hundred degrees!  That was on Monday.  The weather man says it has "cooled" a bit- it's only in the mid 90's today- but I am a firm believer that once you get above 90 degrees it is all the same.  I know this is Memphis and I have been coping with these summers since 1996 (how is that even possible- 12 years now!), but my goodness it doesn't get any easier.  After spending 23 years growing up in upstate NY though, I will say this: I will take a hot and humid Memphis summer over a cold and snowy winter in NYS any day.  

We have been keeping busy this week... Maggie finished her last summer camp this morning.  She has been a "Mini Mad Scientist" all week and has been coming home with all sorts of science projects to work on.  It's been fun for her and she has learned all sorts of interesting things about dinosaurs, planets and outer space, and "polymers", which is another word for clay she informed me yesterday when I picked her up.  She cracks me up! 

We started our last session of swim lessons on Monday afternoon.  Maggie and Lydia are in the same class this session and are doing pretty good.  Maggie especially- she seems to have gotten over her fear of jumping into the pool and I now have a hard time getting her out of the pool.  It was the other way around for a while- we couldn't get her to stay in the water!  I'm so proud of her progress.  Lydia is coming along slowly, but these things take some time and this really is her first experience swimming so we are not putting any pressure on her.  When this session is over next week we are planning to take a little break and re-enroll later this fall.  

Jack has been busy just being a 9 month old.  He is everywhere and into everything these days- definitely keeping me busy!  He pulls up now too and has been doing this crawl/ scoot move where he is sitting up and just sort of scooting around with one leg tucked under.  Lydia got around nearly the same way when she was his age too.  I think he finds it a more efficient way to get around the house- he can really move, especially across the hardwood and tile floors.  A picture from lunchtime this afternoon- he was more interested in being silly than eating his summer veggie puree (can't say that I blame him!) 

Time to go wake the troops from their nap to get ready for swim class!