summer heat

It's getting hot out there!
We've enjoyed swimming lessons this week. We're getting better at bobbing our heads underwater. Hannah still doesn't like to do it, but I'm getting more comfortable. We had lessons all week, but got rained out on Friday. We did safety worksheets and got candy from our teacher because it was lightning the last day of the lessons. We got our report cards; we still need to work on putting our faces in the water and floating on our backs and fronts. But, Mommy & Daddy are happy with the progress we've made so far in the 2 weeks of lessons.
Thursday, Mommy brought us balloons! they were left over from some meeting she was at, but we were so excited! It was a big bunch of colorful balloons, a few individual white ones and a big letter z (that went flat right away). It was so much fun! She brought them to us while we were eating supper, and we saw her coming in the backyard with all the balloons. We were so excited, we could hardly finish supper! Unfortunately, Mom & Dad have great power over us when we have balloons in the house - they can make us do anything without argument (go to bed, brush our teeth, get dressed, you know...) by threatening to pop the balloons if we don't listen.
Friday, Daddy stayed home with us. We just got to play with the balloons and our toys. And, we looked forward to Megan coming to babysit us! She came over after our swimming lessons while Mommy & Daddy went to some show for Mom's work. We love when Megan watches us! We played candyland and were very good for her. Mommy & Daddy said their show (Louie Anderson) was great.
Saturday we got up and packed up to go to Mom & Dad's friend Reid's cabin. We have been looking forward to this for a long time. It was a really hot weekend, so heading north to the lake was perfect!
We got there after lunch, so we had sandwiches and put on our swimsuits right away. Reid had the jet ski out and was giving rides on the tubes. Mommy rode on the tube with us while our friends Juanita & Dillon rode on another tube. It was fun, but Hannah got scared and didn't like the speed and the bumps, so she went back to the shore and hung out with Daddy.
Reid took Mommy & me on a great ride! I was shouting "more bumpy! faster!" because I was having so much fun. He said he was taking it easy on us, and I didn't fall off at all! It was awesome.
After the tubing, we swam for a little while then got to go out on the pontoon. We saw eagles and lots of cool places. Hannah was getting tired and ready to go back to the cabin. I was enjoying using the binoculars (though it took me half the boat ride to figure out that I had them BACKWARDS!) We saw an eagle, and lots of loons. (we know the loon is the Minnesota state bird)
After the boat ride, Daddy made supper, we had some snacks (Bev & Patty shared chips) and got ready for a bonfire! Dillon & I helped find sticks for the fire, then we got ready for s'mores. Unfortunately, the mosquitoes were SO BAD that we each only had one s'more before we had to go inside. It was such an exhausting day, we fell right asleep when we finally went to bed.
We had fun with Reid saying "hello! hello! hello!" He kept saying something about three stooges - we just thought it was funny!
This morning, we got up and put on our swimsuits right away. We were bummed that we had to wait until after breakfast to swim (though, Patty made delicious french toast and sausage!) We got to swim with Dillon for a while, then with Mommy. I practiced my head bobs for her and bounced in the water with her. It was fun! Hannah didn't want to splash or bob her head. I tried to help Mommy encourage her, but she didn't want to. Maybe next time.
After swimming, we packed up and went to visit a friend that Daddy's family was friends with since he was a little baby. We played with their toys (they had light sabres) and - oh yeah - ate some lunch. It was fun and Daddy was happy to catch up with these friends.
On the way home, it started to rain and Daddy decided to put Cheyenne in the truck with us (instead of her Kennel) because it was so hot. She was very happy to cuddle up to me and Hannah in the dry, air conditioned truck and sleep all the way home.
It was a very busy weekend. We're all ready to go back to work tomorrow (our work is Sue's house). Too bad we don't have swimming this week! It's going to be very hot. But, we're happy to be home in our air conditioning. So is Daddy & Mommy!
Have a good week!
Noah