Looking out of the windows our trees were practically sideways. Luckily we had no damage other than some tilted trees and flowers. Whew. Driving around since there are lots of fallen trees, shingles missing from roofs and fences blown down. I cannot imagine what it looks like East of Katy.
Sunday night a horrible thunderstorm blew through. We lost power. How do you not lose power during a Category 2 Hurricane but you do from a Thunderstorm? This I do not understand. Luckily it was only out a few hours.
Lessons we learned from Ike:
1. Buy more than cookies and bananas for the storm (Thanks, Heath!). Even if you don't lose power, nothing remains open for several days. We drove around looking for food, because we didn't have anything we wanted at home and nothing but donut stores were open the day after...okay, I wanted a home cooked meal, the one from a restaurant. Next hurricane, we are having steaks.
2. Don't sale your generator the day after the storm, you may need it for the incoming thunderstorms. (Our neighbors did this).
3. Go ahead and cancel things like parties and showers, otherwise, inevitably, someone will show up. Sorry, Guys!!!
4. If a hurricane hits during football season, go ahead and evacuate. For some reason, the news channels think we want 24-7 coverage of the storm from 4 different angles and make us miss things like Football games. Also, make your Fantasy Football selections well before the storm hits, as hurricanes also effect internet access. (This one is Heath's lesson).
5. Have some activities planned in case you lose power. Cabin fever does exist...EVEN if you never lose power. They boys got it so bad we pretended to be trees that waved in the wind and then fell down. We even got a green blanket and lost all of our leaves. At this point we were somewhat dilerious. Not sure I can imagine the four of us lasting too long had we lost power.
Heath really, really wanted to video tape the storm but for some reason he could not find the camera when he needed it. So, he decided to take videos of the damage we incurred. My little storm chaser.
In all seriousness, we are very blessed and pray for our friends and neighbors that did not fare as well as we did.
So, Logan is in the habit of carrying a toy in each hand. Lately it's been a big sword in one and a little sword in the other (the little sword looks like a switchblade). Or he likes to carry the Little Einstein figurines or Peter Pan and Captain Hook. He just carries them around in his hands not even really playing with them.
Last night he took two girls from Little Einstiens to bed. (Annie and June). He also had a shark. I was like, How cute, he picked the girls to hold...he's so sensitive. Then when he got to bed he started eating them with the shark. Nevermind on the sensitive part.
He's also keenly aware of the size of my belly. He leaned on it and said, Oops, Presley's in there. He has a family of dinosaurs and they all represent one of us, Mommy, Daddy, Caden and Logan. He recently added a small barrel (toy from a ship) that represents Presley. He usually has it stuck onto the Mommy some where.
Also, while reading books anytime he sees ANY group of 3 or 5 he names them...3 = Caden, Logan, and Presley and 5 = Mommy, Daddy, Caden, Logan and Presley. It's really very sweet. Even shapes and colors are named this. Presley comes out "Sessy" which I am really hoping sticks....my brothers never had a sweet name for me....only ones I cannot repeat here. :)
Caden is counting down the days to his birthday Party which is Saturday. He's so excited. If you know me, you know I am somewhat anal about what the boys wear...at 9 months pregnant, I have let that go...evidence below:
At least they were hurricane ready...with their broken umbrella.
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