Jun 07 2008
Hotter than blazes!
The three Hs (hazy, hot and humid) ruled today in central PA. I’m not sure what the high was today but at 5, it was still 92 degrees. Tomorrow it’s supposed to be 95 and feel like 102, Monday 97 and feel like 101. I forgot to mention yesterday that Zoe was playing with AJ’s brush last night and trying to brush her hair. It was pretty cute, so I grabbed the camera and did a little recording. I can’t seem to figure out how to embed Flickr video here, so try this link.
We picked up the kids and went to Reptiland this morning. We watched the education program and the kids both touched the alligator and the boa constrictor. (Zoe had some help but didn’t seem to have any fear, which was nice. I don’t expect that to last much longer!)She was in the BabyBjorn and enjoyed the fan that was moving the air, including signing about the fan and leaning back to look at me. She was adorable! 
After the program, we went to watch them feed a Rainbow Boa a “rat-sicle” (pre-killed frozen and then defrosted) and also to see Rocky and girlfriend “Adrian” (good job Sandy, send me your address!). The boas are named after Laverne and Shirley characters.
We came home and had lunch. Zoe went down for a nap while AJ got sunscreened up to go out and play in the sprinkler with kids from the neighborhood. I sat out on the porch and read my book while I waited for John to put Zoe down. I broke a fingernail and so I was waiting for him to come out so I could go. He got sucked into playing Rock Band and eventually came down about an hour later.
While I was getting my nails done, they showed a few different clips of Hillary endorsing Barack Obama. One of the other women there was talking about how disappointed she was that Hillary was calling it quits and that she didn’t think Obama will win. She said that she doesn’t think he can be elected, we’re still too racist as a country. I don’t know if she’s right or not, but it makes me sad to think that she might be. She also said that she didn’t “think the world was ready for a woman president.” I said, “There are women leaders and presidents all over the world, if there’s any truth to it, it’s that Americans aren’t ready, not the world.” Later, she wanted to know who else was going to be a candidate. Really? Really! Crazy!
We had dinner and AJ went back out to play for a bit. We put the baby swing up on the hooks on the front porch and put Zoe in it and John, Zoe and I hung out on the front porch.John was itching to get back to Rock Band, he’s got a serious videogame addiction!
A little before 7 we called AJ in out of the heat and he and I started to read Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. He did pretty well at listening. I had him predict what he thought was going to happen next a few times while I was reading and we read the first two chapters. We’ll continue tomorrow night. I’m trying to improve his listening/comprehension skills and to help him with some creativity and picturing what he hears rather than just looking at the pictures. We’ll see how it goes. He did tell me he liked the book so far, so I hope that we’ll continue.
