Before the arm incident, summer activities had resumed. This day was a good one. Another playground for our bucket list, on the same day that the city hosted some kind of "event" that included buckets of water. 

And then the new donut shop. It's not like any other place I had been to before. One starts with a menu similar to that you would find in a sushi restaurant. A long, long list of topping choices that is overwhelming to this mama who like a good old fashion cinnamon and sugar cake donut. 

Customers have a front row seat to the donut making process; from the dough dropping into hot oil, bobbing along a conveyor belt, to being hand dipped and packed, still hot, into a box. 

The entire way home, as in every 28 seconds, the littlest guy asked "mama, is my donut still hot". And by the time we got home I was able to, deep breathe, answer "no" and serve it up. 

Catastrophe of the everyday

A day like any other.

Except that today's romp on the monkey bars ended badly. 

Supracondylar humerus fracture. 

Most common with boys, most common under the age of 9, and most common in falls from beds or monkey bars. 

Check

Check 

and check. 

A proper cast is to come, and it will be, he informed me, orange. 

NY: the second leg

More sun

More water

More ice cream

Cousins, cousins, cousins

Golf

And one jello cake, two years in the making 

NY: The first leg

Cousins

Ice cream stands

Water

Fishing

Basketball

Sun

Now it's summer!

Rain

Each day we watch the clouds build until they dump bucketfuls of rain and hail, bringing with them the welcome relief of a cool breeze and the drop of the mercury.

Every now and then the storms are so mighty that we find ourselves trapped in the car until we can stand to brave the elements. 

And other times we are already nestled in at home, able to rescue the abandoned toys left in the yard in the moments just before the skies open up. Sometimes it's so much of an emergency that a certain boy has no time to worry about getting dressed - except, of course, the required footwear for a summer romp in the rain.