My Cave of Random-ness

First of all, let me say that I feel like I'm living in a cave right now. It has been VERY hot!! Temps have been in the 90's but the heat index has reached well over 100 this week...and it's been going on since Monday! BLAH is what I have to say about that. To keep cool, we have been staying indoors - which means that we keep our blinds closed to keep it cooler in the house as to not run the air conditioner bad all day long (it works great and our house doesn't get a ton of direct sunlight during the day). I usually don't keep any lights on during the day because my blinds and curtains are open...however, due to the crazy hot temps and having to keep things closed up I feel like I'm living in a cave!  It bugs me that I can't take Coleman outside just to play for a little bit in his pool, the sprinkler, use his little lawnmower, or use his cozy coupe (Thanks Uncle Cory and Aunt Tracey)! We have been careful not to venture out too many places as it's been so hot and I just don't want to expose Coleman to the heat while getting him in and out of a hot car. We have gone to my in-laws house just to get a change of scenery and we did go to a story time at Barnes and Nobel this week.

Enough of my complaining...even though it's been hot I have been thinking about how thankful I am that we have air conditioning and that we are blessed with so many other ways to stay cool. We have some great family friends who have given us unlimited access to their pool which we have taken advantage of twice already this week!

Do you miss the days of stopping the ice cream man outside your home and getting one of these?

 These were my FAVORITE when I was growing up. Today I wouldn't even think about stopping the ice cream truck as it drives by with it's little songs...makes me nervous. Maybe my kind husband will get one for me one of these days....I did look on the truck that goes through out neighborhood and they carry my favorite frozen snow cone!!

We are getting ready to head off on another trip. This time we are going to Myrtle Beach, SC. I've never been there and am really looking forward to it. We are going to try and overnight drive (with the help of Justin's younger brother as we all know I could never stay awake during an overnight drive). We will be spending a week with his family in a condo and I'm excited that Justin and I might actually get some time to ourselves and his parents have already offered to watch Coleman one night =) YAY!

Coleman has been learning so many new things in the past few days. He is picking up on new things we are teaching him so quickly. He can now give us the sign for "more" and he also does our sign for "all done" and he says "all done". He learned how to do the sounds for a cow, fish, sheep, and he can waddle like a penguin. It's too cute!! He is growing up so fast.

Okay - so there you have the title of my post. I feel like I'm in a cave...and I had to update you with some random things going on around here.