Ky's Life: Fun (and Hot) Summer Weekends

We've had a couple of fun family weekends. But Kansas is HOT this summer! Last weekend we went to Great Bend for a couple of family reunions on the Brack side. It was around 110 degrees one of the days we were there. Kyler had a lot of fun playing with the relatives close to his age. We stayed one night at a hotel and Brett and Kyler did a little swimming. We walked around the farm where Brett's parents live and Ky loved seeing the tractors. The next morning he woke up and walked over to the door saying "tra-tor." Of course Grandma took him right out. He's such a lucky boy.

Kyler also just got finished with his first swimming lesson course last week. It was a parent/child course to start getting toddlers and babies used to the water. Kyler did pretty good. He has no problem putting his face in the water and doesn't mind getting put completely under either. He does a good job on his front floats but doesn't really enjoy floating on his back much. (I am holding him up when floating.) He is a nut in the water and has no fear. He doesn't want to hold my hand in the shallow water and constantly goes under water. He also loves slides and tries to walk through the deep water to go again.

This weekend we went to Seneca to look at a house on Saturday morning. It was the county fair weekend so there was a lot going on. Saturday night was cruise night where lots of people with fancy cars - old cars and hotrods - cruise around town. We got back to town right around dark so we missed most of it but Ky was pretty interested in the motorcycles and noisy cars. He calls pretty much everything a tractor.

Sunday morning we went out to the fairgrounds to see the animals - cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, horses, geese, ducks, chickens, and some baby chicks. We checked out the car show for a little bit before it go too hot. (The humidity was 92 percent and the temp was in the high 90s so it felt yucky!) Again, Ky liked the motorcycles best. He also thought he was pretty cool sitting on the army tank (a permanent fixture at the park).

After a morning nap and lunch we headed out to the tractor pull. It was Brett's and Ky's first tractor pull. Ky said tractor about 100 times and even though the noisy lawnmower tractors were a little scary, he wouldn't let me cover his ears. It was hot there so we we hit the pool for a couple hours before heading back to Papa and Grandma's house. He had a blast. Seneca has a new pool and it is great for toddlers. Sunday night was the parade which was lead by the American Legion riders. Great Grandpa Remi was one of the riders. It was a really long parade with lots of tractors, farm equipment, heavy machinery, and semi trucks. We came home with way too much candy. Before we left today, Ky had to get into Frazier's pool and play. They both had lots of fun.

Tomorrow is supposed to be another 110 degree day... probably the hottest day of the year in the Kansas City metro area. Then we get a cool front where it will get down to the lower 90s - that's going to feel like fall compared to what we're used to!