Life Adventures for Miles

So after 2 days of heat advisory sunshine fun, it was a 'how long can I veg' day. Luckily even when vegging my child can't do the same thing forever so her vegging was more "how many calm and quiet things can I do without much effort or help." The answer surprisingly (or unsurprisingly) is a lot and all day. We had a couple environment changes (living room vs bedroom, vs kitchen, vs outside in the shade) but mostly there was a lot of screen time that included, silly videos, educational videos, books, games, language, math, and reading/writing learning. coordination, memory, coloring, puzzles, and then some non-screen time with blocks, racing, cooking (popcorn!), and cleaning. On another note, my child's morning hello is always fun to note. Sometimes she brings her screen out but usually, she is ready to play! This morning, I and my bed were the subjects as we played "climb the mommy/luna mountain" hide and seek and train. yesterday it was blocked, th

Today was basically a repeat of yesterday (heat advisory and all). We found 3 ways to use the pump: pumping water/air into the balloons, using it to water plants, and using it to fill buckets and wash things (like hands and balloons) with. Today we tried watering the birds, however, the wait to see if they would use it became too much, and all her efforts to talk to the birds into getting a drink from the bucket failed (adorable as it was). Soooooo let's talk dragon facts!  Did you know: (from google searching) Dragons are mythical creatures of legend from different cultures thus they can live in different environments (like caves and mountains-usually depicted with wings- or water or underground, looking more serpent-like) Dragon depictions are usually based off of other animals (like dinosaurs or snakes) and can be good fortunes (like in Asian cultures) or bad omens (western cultures)  Dragons tend to be powerful with and without powers thus slaying them and using their pieces of

Today I noticed a heat advisory for our weather. My head fully stated that it is a closed locked and nailed shut from the outside type of day...my four-year-old, however, can't be locked in all day so we decided quick trips of outdoor fun it will be! Enter the water balloons! The first outing we had the idea of trying out the balloons pump and its balloons for its actual intended purpose (water balloons). Now yours truly has always had issues with balloons. Not with them directly, but apparently for as good as my lungs are (so stated the sleep test doc) it seems that using them for exercise (running) and blowing up balloons (...and whistling) is just out of their comfort zone- and you know how we all like our comfort zones. So as you can imagine, this pump is awesome for me (too bad I can't find something to do the tying for me so my uncoordinated fingers stop breaking them, haha)! It is also easy enough that a Luna can do it, too. So the first round of outside was water balloo