Hot Child in the City...Happy 4th!

Last week was miserably hot...Naomi kept going around the house saying, “HOT!” most likely because I was doing the same. We had a new babysitter watching Naomi for a couple of days last week while our regular sitter took some much needed, well deserved family time off for the 4^th so Naomi got to spend 2 days at home with her new “friend”. The first morning leaving was a little rough but by lunch time she was dragging the poor sitter around the house (the very hot non-air conditioned house) telling her what to do and where they were going to go.

The next morning when Naomi woke up, I asked her if she knew what day it was and she said, Katie my friend? Yes, honey girl, it was Katie your friend day – super cute. It went remarkably well. So much so that I even was able to get one of my photo challenges done really easily while they were playing “Chase” through the kitchen.

Our only hope to escape from the heat in our house is our basement, we have been in process of converting the former owners old office space into a toy room for Naomi and last week's heat wave was all the motivation we needed. We had carpeting installed, brought down a lot of toys from our living room (somehow it STILL looks like there are a billion toys upstairs too) and enjoyed the basement coolness.  We broke out the camping cots and brought down Naomi's pack and play and slept in there - Naomi thought it was a great adventure.

We hosted a small get together with a couple of friends for the 4^th...it was hot...so hot. I literally brought a fan outside just to get some air flowing!! Ryan picked on me for it but I really do think it helped...that and frequent dips in the kiddie pool!

We tried SO hard to get Naomi to take a picture with us and this is what we got...stinker :)

Baby Girl Charlotte and her amazing eyes

Baby William

Miss Natty P

Busy fingers, even her little fingers are patriotic!

That night we took Naomi down to the fireworks with Grandma, Boppa, Auntie Amber and Uncle Jus-Jus. It was Nay's first time experiencing fireworks – she did really well with holding the sparklers...

 

After the first firework she just said, “WOW!”

then sat in my lap, then grandmas, then Boppa's, then Daddy's finally back to grandmas.
 

They kept her attention for about 10 minutes then she wanted to play. We trekked back home in the dark and Ryan had ridden home with his dad to haul back some chairs and he met us at the end of the drive way with a sparkler and Naomi asked, “Me do?”
 

 

so I got her out of her stroller and let her hold it, half way through it she looked up at Ry and I and said, “Ni-night?” Yes, Naomi, you can go ni-night. Funny girl had had enough of the celebration.

I can remember the 4^th of July being such a huge marker of the halfway point of summer, being so excited to go play at the park with my friends and run around. I can't wait to see what the 4^th means to our little family in future years and what Naomi's memories of the holiday's are.