Current mood: hot
I am so notorious for bad timing. Everytime I plan someting, something always goes bad and I regret not waiting alittle longer to do it so something better would happen. Yesterday was no exception of this. Anyways, yesterday was fun but HOT! and when I say HOT I don't mean, wow its really warm out feels like 80, no no no no it was the type of hot that when you walked outside you felt your skin sizzle!! Welcome to Riverside County Summers....ick!
Anyways, I have been putting off going to Babies R Us for awhile now, and yesterday I just HAD to go. After Mia's "after breakfast poopie" we were officially out of wipees! It was still early (around 10ish) so I got Mia ready and off to the store we went. I figured I'd hit the store before the heat really set in since it was already really warm. The weather website said that it should only be in the 90s (which the day before felt like it)
We shopped around a bit and since my tons of coupons were on the verge of expiring I decided to buy her a treat since summer is officially upon us (meaning its starting to get aweful hot! and since we were budgeting we can't use the AC as freely as we used to) I bought her a tiny plastic pool. I figured once the peak of the heat was over during the day she would break in her new bathing suits and she could take a dip. But what to do with the pool between swims? Well I got the bright idea to buy her a big bag of tiny plastic balls to put in the pool while it was empty of water so she could play with them in our living room. The balls are similar to those balls at Chuck E Cheese.
Once we left the store it really REALLY felt HOT. Wow it must be mid-90s by now, I thought. Poor Mia and I forgot our sunblock so we both raced back to the car. As I fumbled with getting her situated in her car seat, I could literally feel the sun beating down on my back... man its HOT! Then I looked at the tiny plastic blue pool... oh no how am I going to fit this thing in my car?!? So I struggled and struggled but eventually got it in the car. By then I was all sweating and fried. I jumped in the car and blasted the AC. My car temp. gage only ready 95 but it felt hotter.
Oh and another thing, I was stilll on the lookout for a birthday dress for Mia but have been unlucky everywhere I go. So while at the stop light on the way home I saw Kohls across the street. "Hmmm... maybe I should peek in there, I mean I AM right here and I hate to go back out especially since its so hot" so I went to Kohls.
I got out of the car and it literally felt hotter from just the 2 min drive! So I threw on Mia's Padres hat on her and ran off to the store. I put her in the store stroller and off shopping we went. I found some REALLY cute summer dresses that were 60% off there! but no fancy ones. I looked and looked while Mia played and jipper jabbered. Then I saw it... the perfect little pink poofy dress!!! It was perfect!!! so I grabbed it and went to the fitting room to try it on her before we bought it.
She had a great time in the fitting room. Walking all around and playing with the giant mirror. Eventually I got the dress on and she looked adorable!!! Especially since she walks, seeing her little stiff walk in that dress melted my heart. So I took it off and tried on the other summer dresses, she kept wanting to get away and at one point even tried to crawl under the wall into the next person's changing room! Nooo! I grabbed her before she could. Anyways since we have a tight budget, I only bought the poofy dress. The lady at the register fell in love with Mia, but of course all Mia did was stare at her. The lady tried her best to get her to smile or at least do something other than stare but was unsucessful, the only thing she got out of Mia was a raised eyebrow as to say "who are you? I don't know you, I don't like what you are doing" haha Sigh... little Mia. Anyways I got her out of the store roller and back outside we went.
Once I walked out the searing heat just hit! OMG!!!! We were literally baking and we were in the shade! So I quickly walked to the car as fast as I could, melting along the way. I put Mia in the car seat gave her more water to drink and jumped in the car. We went straight home after that, and Mia fell asleep in the car. I think the heat got to her because even after taking her off the car she was still knocked out and didn't budge for another 30 mins!
Once she woke up I got her lunch ready as Daddy played with her. I put the pool in the middle of the livingroom and filled it with those little balls. Adrian put her in the middle of it and she went nuts!!! She LOVED it! More than I thought she would. She would throw the balls around, move them all around with her hands, hit them together and just had fun. Then she crawled out of the pool and started picking up all the outside balls and threw them into the pool. She had a great time. Then I fed her lunch and we rested a bit.
We really needed to stock up on food, especially her favorite, (avocados) so we decided to hit up Cardenas in Perris. They sell avocados 3 for a dollar. So we packed up and into the heat we went. I didn't think it was possible, but it was HOTTER! Once we got to Cardenas we bolted out of the car and into the air conditioned store. Poor Mia was getting tons of sun and she already was all sweaty and turning pink. So we shopped a bit but they didn't have all the food we needed, so you know what that means... we had to hit WinCo on the way home. So we bought our food and raced out to the car and sizzled. We looked at the car temp and it read 116!!!!! OMG!!!
We drove off to WinCO and the temp dropped alittle it read, 114! Man thats hot. So we raced into the store and bought the last of our food and went home. It was aweful!!!! but is common for summer here in Riverside, so best get used to it right!?!
Well anyways this morning I am up, and I looked at weather.com to see what the weather will be like today. It says today should be the high of 90!!! What?!?!?! I should have gone out today and not yesterday!! We just fried ourselves for no reason!!!! Great, my notoriously bad timing strikes again. I looked at the temp for Sun City yesterday and it was a record high for the day... a whopping 110!!!!! Sigh... oh well at least I don't have to go anywhere today haha
