Kids Antics at 100 Degrees!!

What can we do with the wranglers during a midwestern heatwave?  We can’t send them outside, lock the doors and tell them to just slurp water out of the hose when they’re thirsty.  At 100 degrees, it’s too hot to do much of anything. Even swimming has been pushed off until the evening hours. The pool temperature has now reached a steaming 90 degrees, refreshing, right?

“You Can’t  Touch This!”

“I’ll just have mine in the freezer, thanks!”

Most activities have come to a screeching halt.  The sound of bouncing basketballs are gone for the time being. Unless you have a private indoor basketball court or a gym membership, these kids get zero exercise. By the time it’s bedtime, the only exercise they have participated in for the day is a couple of trips to the pantry for some sugary snacks.  The only other physical activity I’ve noticed is when the wranglers go lurking around the house like little spies, just to make sure I’m not sitting down reading or taking a much needed break. And if I am, all hell breaks loose!

At least the kids are participating in at-home science experiments this summer.  Rocket Boy turned the hose on full blast with a nozzle on the end, swam to the bottom of the pool, with the hose pointed downward just to see if the water pressure could propel him to the top!
I don’t think he got the outcome he had hoped for.

Channel Chick performs her experiments in her room. She dabbles in food experimentation. Like how long can a half eaten bowl of spaghetti sit idle on top of her dresser, before the entire family realizes that something is askew.

We tried to go out to lunch yesterday, OK, does the drive thru at Chick-Fil-A count? So Rocket Boy keeps complaining that he has a loose tooth, so when does it come out? While we are eating lunch in the car. Normally that would not be a big deal, but Channel Chick made a huge ordeal of the whole thing, pretending to get woozy and practically faint at the sight of a drop of blood. 

So whether we are experimenting with the force of water, or how long  it takes to grow a mold-like substance on our leftovers, it’s all in a day for Mommies In Orbit.