Summer is Officially Here

I feel like summer has been upon us for quite some time, but technically, it has just started.  Now that I think about it, just this last week the pool finally got comfortably warm, the forecast became steady at 90 degrees, and ice cream and popsicles have become staples in our diets.  Yes, summer is officially here.

Greenville summers are very humid and hot.  Pyper makes sure I know that she is "sweaty" when we are out. I also am uncomfortably sticky upon leaving the coolness of our AC.  When I speak of my beloved AC, I'm not talking about icebox cold.  We have our thermostat set at 74 degrees.  Cool enough to feel cold when you step in the house, warm enough you don't need a jacket inside, and dry enough to keep the wetness off your skin.

But we are outside folk and the AC doesn't come with us.  Water features, along with those cold treats, are a daily must for cooling off.  If it were up to me, I'd choose to play at dawn and retire to AC around 10am, at which time it is almost unbearably hot already, then I'd relax in the AC and blog, sew, or read until the evening time to play some more.  But I'm on Pypertime, not a bad thing, and blogging, sewing, and reading are not relaxing when she is awake.  

Today we left the house by bike and trailer around 9:30am.  Our mission was water.  We decided to head downtown by the Reedy River for some fountain play.  We were successful at cooling off, having fun, and burning up some 2 year old energy.

At the kid friendly "waterfall" along the river.  There's a real one too, but not kid friendly. 

Along the bike trail by the river there are swinging benches that are usually occupied. Today we spotted a vacant seat to the delight of this girl. 

Pyper always asks to take pictures.  She's my little personal "GoPro" camera. 

We also decided to cool off at the pool after Pyper's nap.  It's been fun watching her figure out the mechanics of swimming, breathing and not breathing, and floation.  Today she started jumping into the pool by herself and doggy paddling around, telling Andy to stand further away or stop holding her.  Ah, it's happening so fast!