Best. Day. Ever.

It was hot outside. Again. Like 95 with a heat index over 100 and heat advisories hot. But when we got home from work/daycare Nick’s friends were outside playing in the water so of course the boys wanted to join them. It was too hot to argue so I sent them in for their trunks. Twenty minutes later I was staring down the sloppy end of water/mud slide.

Yuck.

 

That’s what he said, too.

But, not these guys. They loved every second of it. They even rigged up the hose so it would continue to spray the slide without anyone manning the spout.

I wish I could see that kind of excitement from Nick more often. He’s such a serious child sometimes. Crazy, but serious. Is that even possible?

As if the mud slide wasn’t enough, this crazy cool mama let the boys take a bath … and paint with colored shaving cream. See Zander’s belly and that little bit of the tub? The whole tub and both of their bodies looked like that in less than 15 minutes.

Including their faces. Meet the Incredible Hulk.

And Crazy Smurf.

Is it bad that the best picture I have of the two of them together they are naked and covered in colored shaving cream. Would it be wrong of me to print this out and hang it on the wall? These are some of the best simultaneous smiles I’ve ever got from these two clowns.

And, as if that wasn’t enough, we topped off the night with ice cream sundaes. Yep, it was officially the best day ever, or at least for this week.

Too hot

I’m not an outside girl, at least not once the temperature gets over 85 or so. So, when the thermometer tops out in the mid to upper 90s you can bet that I am going to be staying inside, even if it means finding something to keep Nick and Zander from killing each other and driving me crazy. Today, that something happened to be painting. Unfortunately Zander’s killer cut didn’t allow for finger painting and I didn’t have any watercolor paper. So, it was on the bigger and better things: The boys wanted to paint the houses my mom got them for Christmas. That was all fine and good except it required me to put them back together again … in the stuffy, but not sweltering, porch. At Christmas, this was a two man job. Today, I tackled it solo (well, solo and a half – the boys helped but their help is kind of questionable).

I'm glad I did though. They played out there quietly for about an hour.

Nick was very intent on getting his just right.

Zander is more into abstract work.

And Ben, well, you can see what he did.

Looks like I better get out the Window-ex (That’s what Zander called it the other day).