What a busy few days.  As you well know, we had Hurricane Irene come welcome us to our new home on Saturday.  It was an early morning, when we had a tornado warning at 4:30am and Doug moved the air mattress to the living room and we had an impromptu family campout.  Mary stayed asleep, but Adam decided he was awake for good.  That makes for a long day.  Irene was awful blustery, with gusts that would shake the house, but we had no major damage.   The kids had a great time watching movies on the dvd player.  At one point, Mary looked at me, smooshed her face between her hands and said, "Mom, I have a smooshy brain!"  Of course, a few minutes later she asked me if she could watch Stuart Little again.  Ah, rainy, stormy days.  Adam unrolled all the toilet paper from our bathroom.  He played with the toilet brush (Ack!).  He ran away from me after his bath, closed himself behind his curtains and opened it just far enough for his pee to spray out "fountain style" onto the carpet  (double ACK!).  I guess I could be positive and say at least he opened the curtains.  Hmmm.  We were lucky to not loose power until around midnight Saturday night.  However, it remained off all day Sunday.  Mary was not happy to go to bed all hot and sweaty.  I admit, I wasn't looking forward to it either.  I took a cold shower and just as I stretched out on the bed, the power came back on.  Hallelujah!  I love power.

Today was Mary's first day of preschool.  My little girl is growing up so fast.  She was so excited.  She even wanted her hair curled for the special day.

After dropping her off, little man and I had some quality bonding time...at Target (of course), then we headed to the library to play and read.  It was a fun morning.