Recipe for a great summer day with a pre-toddler (even if it is a gabillion degrees outside):

Wake up.

Play with mom.

Eat breakfast.

Morning nap

Wake up and walk/ride to the grocery store in the wagon to buy cookie dough (for mom) and stuff to make ham and peas macaroni and cheese. Yay wagon wheel pasta!

Come home and play in your play pen with your "baby" while nanny makes mac and cheese.

Eat lunch and drink a lot of whole milk.

Change into your swim diaper and swimsuit and head over to the Lake Harriet south beach with an iced sippy cup full of watered-down apple juice and ziplock full of some animal crackers.

Liberally apply baby-50 sunblock.

Splash and swim and watch other kids fight with their parents/nannies.

Have a snack in the shade.

Crawl back into the car.

Go home for an afternoon nap. (Change into a new, sand-free diaper and a onesie.)

Wake up and drink some milk.

Go for a leisurely walk in the orange stroller.

Play in your playpen while nanny gets supper together-- pureed sweet potatoes, hot dog pieces, and homemade fruit smoothie.

Mom and dad come home. Annie goes home.

play.

bath.

go to sleep.