Surviving the heat...

It's 103 degrees outside!  What in the world.  We have been going going all week trying to think of fun- INDOOR- things to do to beat this heat!  The big kids are going to VBS again so the mornings are them doing that and me spending time with my two little punkins.  Baby punkin takes a morning nap and curly-locked punkin does his reading lesson, watches a Thomas the Tank Engine and gets lot of extra attention from his adoring mommy.  Monday afternoon we had Little Flowers.  Tuesday afternoon I got a sitter for the little boys and took the big kids out to lunch and to the library for a concert by Eric Litwin, the author of the Pete the Cat series.  He was hysterical- I think the adults got his humor more than the kids (although the kids had a blast).  At one point he said, "put your hands up and we are going to channel Paula Abdul" and as we all had our hands up he said to two ladies, "Excuse me Ladies- I see you are debating whether 80s Paula or 90s Paula is who we should channel and can I just say for right now- please just drop it."  :)

Wednesday while the big kids were in VBS I took the little boys to the revamped art museum kiddie area- it is AWESOME- clean, contained, interesting- it's perfect. :)

Coloring on a smart board-



Painting- "this is me happy, this is me sad"-



Being precious on the chalkboard table-



Why do all his smiley pictures end up blurry? It's just too much cuteness for the camera to handle I guess-

Thursday after VBS we headed to the McWane Center for air conditioned fun.  Driving an airplane-  :)

Marky and his friends LOVE these big huge blocks- they built the whole time-



Julia found an animal rescue place where she could vaccinate animals (it was a Dora and Diego thing)- how perfect for our little critter-lovin baby girl-



Charlie loves to slide-



And how big is he- he can stand for a long time now- Marky has counted almost 2 minutes of Charlie standing up-



Then today we had the VBS finale. The theme was the joyful mysteries of the rosary (over the next three years we will cover all the mysteries)-



Creative cupcakes-



Your turn will come, Charliebear-



Week one of extreme heat- veni, vidi, vici!