It's HOT!

It's been one miserably hot month around here which is stifling many of our summer fun plans. Usually June and even July in Richmond are bearable, especially in the evenings. It's August when things get scorching and the humidity gets really high. I knew, expecting a September baby would mean a long summer, but I never expected it to start this early! It was so hot outside yesterday when Jack got out of the car he said it was hot and started blowing...just like he does on his food when it's too hot! Perhaps things will flip-flop this year and somehow in August, when I'm enormous and really tired of being pregnant, it will cool down a bit. A girl can hope!

At any rate, we're still having fun...

• We've welcomed Sammy Higginbotham into our lives and tried to soak up all of the wonderfulness that is watching such good friends be blessed with such an amazing gift.
  

Jack loves Sammy and loves having the Higginbothams (including China and Kaiser and Gisele's look-alike) in town so that he can visit often! Just a little dose of cuteness...we took Jack with us to the hospital to see Sammy the night he was born. He loves babies and we thought it would be a good introduction to where we'll be in just a few months when he comes to visit his little brother. As we walked down the hall, we passed several rooms with open doors with tiny newborn babies crying. Jack looked at Kenny and said "cat? meow!" We explained there were in fact no cats in the hospital but that little bitty baby cries can sound a bit like meows. He was confused and kept saying "baby meow?"

• We've been to the pool with Grams and Gramps, which is always LOTS of FUN!

• We've watched a lot of World Cup Soccer.

• We've been to the Farmer's Market.

• Kenny and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary!
  

• We've been planning our beach trip here in a few weeks.

• We've been trying to decide on a name for Jack's little brother.

• We've been learning how to count to 10 and are doing really well, as long as we can remember to start at 1.

• Jack's been learning the names of all the dinosaurs. He knows T-Rex, Diplodocus, Triceratops and Raptor. I am stuck on T-Rex pretty much.
  

• We've been celebrating Eddie's 31st birthday!

• We've been thinking a lot about Grandpa.
  

• We've been to the Children's Museum.

• Jack has been insistent on spending a lot of time "naken"! It's so hot, I can't really argue with him!

Hope it is cooler where you are...