Storms, etc.

We had thunderstorms this morning. Hannah was hiding from them under her covers when Bill went to get her up. I think they have mostly passed by now, but we may have more tonight and tomorrow morning.

Zachary had a sore throat earlier this week; it was viral and not strep, so we just had to wait for him to get over it. He seems to be doing much better, and is back to his normal self of annoying Shadow and getting into everything.

Hannah is starting cheerleading camp at her daycare tomorrow. I don't want her to get into cheerleading, but she really wanted to do it. She is also probably going to her first sleepover at her best friend, Madeline's, the first weekend in July. We hope we don't have to pick her up in the middle of the night.

Hail Storm Pictures

I posted some of the hail storm pictures from last Thursday to MySpace. The hail we had was about marble-sized, but we had quite a bit of it. It piled up in places and did some damage to our flowers and bushes and put some dings in our back fence.

Zachary is feeling much better. He is back to his normal self and is ready for his birthday party on Saturday.

I also posted some pictures of Hannah's soccer game on Saturday. They won 3-2; Hannah played defense. The coach tried to get her to play forward for part of the game, but she wanted to keep playing defense.

I Love Texas Weather!

Well, after the snow last Thursday, the high today was almost 90 degrees. Here is a picture of the house last Friday morning about 8:00. The snow had mostly melted on the streets, sidewalks, and driveways, but there were still patches of ice in places. Our snowman didn't completely melt until Monday morning, when it rained. He left behind a nice little pile of grass that got rolled up inside him.

Zachary took one step by himself on Wednesday at daycare. He is standing up longer and longer without holding onto anything. Today he got to visit the young toddler class (the class he will be moving up to soon). He even got to play outside with them. One of his teachers told me she has never seen a baby like Zachary that has absolutely no fear of being outside.

Crazy Weather

The weekend was beautiful and spring-like, so I actually washed the Explorer, which hadn't been washed in who knows how long. I should have known, nothing can bring on rain faster than me washing a car. Monday was warm and humid; I felt like I was back in Houston. And the storms hit early Tuesday morning. Unfortunately Tuesday is also our garbage pick-up day, so I woke up just before 4 AM, heard the wind, and feared the worst - garbage all over the yard. I couldn't go back to sleep thinking about it, so I had to get up and check (Bill was out of town). Luckily, the wind had just blown the lids open, so I went outside and closed them, since it was raining a little. We got some thunder and lightning after that, but nothing more serious. I was glad I sent the kids' jackets to daycare, because the temperature started falling in the afternoon, and it was in the 4os and really windy when I picked them up. It was near freezing this morning.

Hannah likes to bring the newspaper in and mentioned getting it this morning, so I told her she could, but she needed to hurry, because it was cold. When we got to daycare, she went in ahead of me, and when Mrs. H. made the comment to her that it was cold, Hannah said "I know. Mama made me get the paper this morning."