One HOT summer

It has been a scorching HOT summer.  That's putting it mildly.  It has been so hot that staying inside is a MUST most days.  It's hard to keep an 18 month old entertained and cooped up in the house all day.  Every morning my mom and I try to walk but even early in the morning it is still too hot.  If we do play outside its in increments of 5 min. here and there.  Chance's lil cheeks get so red within 5 min but he doesnt care one bit.  He would play outside all day if I let him.  Heat or no heat.  Me...I like to be cool.  We spend a lot of time at Nana and Poppa's pool.  Then we take really good naps! :)  But lately we have also watched many episodes of the Backyardigans.  However, Chance only likes certain ones and if its not the one he wants to watch he will whine and give me the remote.  When I start to go through the recordings he will sit back and see if I get the one he wants to watch.  We do this til he is satisfied. ha!  He loves the ones that have some type of animal in them.  Go figure...

 Chance is really into sitting/playing in his bumbo chair. 

Reading a book

 Watching cartoons.  He is such a big boy.  Minus the pacifier. ha

We have found a few ways to entertain Chance with all the heat.  The entertainment only lasts for a short while and he wants to do something else. 
The picture speaks for itself:

Daddy is so funny. :)  Chance laughed and laughed.  Who knew a bumbo would be so much fun!
When its a 111 degrees outside and too hot to go in the pool even we bring the pool toys inside for some fun.  This was all Chance's idea too. 

 Mommy and "Scubba Steve"

 I should totally win the "Cool Mom of the Year" award. ha!

We also go get little treats from DQ - the cherry starkists are the best. 

*he was a mess and so was his carseat.  But he loved it. :)

I recently cleaned out his toy box.  This is what he does...

This past week we went to Toys R Us to see if we could find Chance some new things to play with at Nana's house.  Instead we found these...

 When I tell you this boy is OBSESSED with lawn mowers its no lie... (We were eating dinner with my family the other night and Doug pulled up a video on lawn mowers on utube from his iphone and Chance sat so still and quiet watching it while we waited on our food.)

 I forsee this being a Christmas present from my mom and dad.  We sent a picture to my dad and he said "BUY IT"  It was just $279. ha! 

He loves to drive.  He says all the time now "I wanna drive"  over and over. 
We finally settled on this:

Happy Monday!