...that my husband just informed me was never an actual hurricane.               

I've told you she's senseless before, haven't I?

And okay, maybe so am I for letting her do this.

It was pretty chilly and pelting down on her... not to mention the WIND!  But she's a daredevil.

In a few more years, she might be that one you see on the news, surfing or kite boarding while the hurricane sweeps onshore, and while the reporters from The Weather Channel and every local station grip onto palm trees and promise you in dramatic, breathless tones that it really is very windy, and did you see how their hood just lifted with that last gust of wind, lions and tigers and bears- oh my!

And I might be the woman in a moo-moo with a bottle of booze and barefoot from having an out of control teenager who likes to kite board in hurricanes.

Or maybe I'll just shrug my shoulders and join her.  That sure sounds better than a moo-moo.

(Her poor big brother had a collision with the dog right when we got outside and skinned his ankle very badly.)  It took about 6 Sponge Bob Band-Aids to mend him, and we left him dressed in warm clothes on the couch to heal.  We left the dog on the back porch.  To think about what he did.

Speaking of the dog, he got so scared last night when we made him go into the storm to pee that he hid underneath the deck.  Where there were surely roaches and rats and snakes. 

Shaun pulled him inside the house while he whimpered LOUD-LY.  We thought the neighbors might call the Humane Society, it was such a fight to get him back in.  Then he smelled like dead animals and had a black stomach, so he spent most of the night on the porch. 

(Just in case you were wondering what we did last night.)

Random side note: water droplets are very fun to photograph.

So is wet hair.

It adds a kind of ethereal quality, don't you think?

I feel like I can glimpse what she will look like when she's older in these.

I love polka dots.  They compliment her little white teeth, don't you think?

I love umbrellas, too.

Hm.  Maybe that's why I bought a polka dot umbrella.  (This isn't it.)

Of course, umbrellas have their vices.

Unless you're Mary Poppins.  She might, like Mary Poppins, go kite boarding now if a strong enough wind comes along.  Which is fitting, because in the first post I ever wrote I described her as being like Mary Poppins, "practically perfect in every way."

I took these yesterday and it has rained right up until now... while I was posting these pictures it stopped. 

What I should post is a shot of our pool.  It needs to be drained some- it is over-flowing.  Shaun read that we had more rain during this storm than we've had in the last 6 months.  Usually, we have a brief thunderstorm in the afternoon, if anything.

No school for three days- that's how this first week of school started out.  One mother said to me, "My house is worse than a Catergory One Hurricane, come on!" 

Three days of canceled school, all this rain and no lightening??  How could we resist playing in it?      

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