OMG IT IS HOT TODAY.

And the heat is supposed to continue forever. Or at least a week, anyway.

And Ana is going to the orthodontist tomorrow, which is gonna suck. On the plus side, on Wednesday she's visiting her dad's mom, so Grandma gets to deal with the Week of Soup, not us!

In celebration of the occasion, we bought new socks. And also shoes, but that was because Ana revealed she had outgrown hers (which I swear we bought less than two months ago) and we happened to conveniently be in a shoe store.

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