Whew, is it hot or what?

Oh my goodness, has it ever been hot this past week! We have a heat index of 108 today and both a heat advisory and an excessive heat warning in place from the weather station - wow. Because of the heat, Lily and I have been spending very little time outside, occupying ourselves with indoor activities instead. Last Friday, Lily's Grandma Libby came up to spend the afternoon with us doing one of our favorite activies - shopping! We picked up some very cute summer outfits for Lily that will work well for keeping her cool during this crazy heat wave. Lily slept for the most part while we shopped, but after she ate that afternoon, she entertained both Grandma Libby and I with smiles and some stories. Later that day, we met Grandpa Rick and daddy for a yummy dinner at the Twisted Fork at Triangle Town Center and were able to just miss the big storms that happened later that night. 

 

On Saturday, Lily and I headed over to her Aunt Katie's house to help pack up some of Aunt Katie's things for her upcoming move and to hang out with her and Nana for awhile. It stormed that afternoon too, which helped to keep us cool and Lily got a great long nap in - that packing sure made her tired! Before she conked out though, we got a good picture session in:

We got to go out to dinner with one of our favorite couples, the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Fine, on Sunday evening. We went to On the Border, which was one of our regular places to eat with Kenny before he was a married man, and we had a great time. We had a tasty meal, topped off with one of their Border Brownies to share between the 4 of us - yum! Lily slept through the majority of dinner, but woke up right before we left and I was able to get a few pictures of Lily with Callie.

On Monday, Lily and I went out to lunch with Aunt Katie to Kanki, a Japanese steakhouse in Raleigh - yet another yummy meal! After lunch, we headed out into the mall to walk some of our lunch off and do a little more shopping (haha). Lilypie got another good nap in her stroller. 

Even though Lily is not a fan, we've really been trying to work on her tummy time since she hit the 2 month mark - the point at which her doctor thought it was more important to make her suffer it. We still can't have tummy time for longer than 5 minutes at a time before she gets really upset, so we do it throughout the day and make it a combo of back playtime and tummy time, which seems to help. I also try and do it in a couple of different places, which also seems to make it a little easier. Lately though, she has gotten really good at holding up her head - and even better at rolling from her tummy to her back! Here are some latest pictures and a video I shot last evening from Lily's tummy time. Notice how quickly she flips right over onto her back!

And we'll leave you with some of Lily's cute pictures this week: