You gotta be kidding

Ok so first the earthquake, now a hurricane. If we are following the fifth grade curriculum we need to move because next is a volcano! The Longs were in today with the heavy rain and wind that turned our front yard into a pond. With Juliette sick and me not feeling 100% it has not been an easy few days. Today we had a lot of fun with her three Ps---ponies, Potato Head, and puzzles :)....and a lot of Mickey Mouse.

What a day!!

I need a shirt that says I survived the 5.8 earthquake of 2011!! A bunch of us were having a training on how this new program called Brain Gym is going to work when all of a sudden it sounded like there was a huge truck rumbling by and felt the floor rumbling...asked what that was and all of a sudden things got a little funky. We were literally rolling with the floor trying to keep our balance and the AP said it felt like an earthquake so about 10 of us started trying to cram into the door jam! I did not like the feeling at all and it lasted about a minute. We had to evacuate and since I wasn't in my room, no phone for Wendy. Only a few teachers' phones were working and I got a call through to mom, but that was it. We had to wait outside for a little bit and then were dismissed from school. Josh was able to text me to let me know he had called Cindy and Juliette was fine and I think I managed to get to her house in about ten minutes. She slept right through it! Cindy's glassware and china broke- so sad. Josh was finally able to get through to my phone and tell me the house was ok, amazing that we had nothing fall off the walls. He had a picture break in his classroom. All of the wine in one of our grocery stores fell off the shelf...alcohol abuse. Then when I was on my way to the gym tonight we had a 4.2 aftershock and Josh's chair was shaking-I didn't feel anything. I will NEVER forget that sound.

One tuckered out pumpkin

I think we wore her out today--it was that last coloring page that put her over the edge :)

More pool pictures!

Yep, you guessed it....at the water park!! :)

Picking out a prize

Last Monday was our last "summer" trip to King's Dominion- we've practically lived there this year. We'll be going on the weekends sometimes, but it was our last weekday afternoon trip for the season. We told Juliette she could pick out a Snoopy doll and she was very excited. We let her out of the stroller and she made a beeline for the Snoopy section. Josh was showing her all the different types and she liked one that was sleeping on a pillow, but then she saw Lucy. She tried grabbing more than one off the shelf! She would not let go of that doll at all!! So that is what we came home with instead of Snoopy and she loves it. Lucy has been added to her crib- there's not going to be room for the baby soon!

The other Peanuts

Juliette loved going up to Sally- she was the first character Juliette met back in April. Linus and Lucy were a different story. Charlie Brown was on a much needed break after he almost passed out in the heat.

Meeting Snoopy

All Juliette talks about when we get to King's Dominion is seeing Snoopy. We finally made it to the Peanuts show where Snoopy is part of it and Juliette went nuts. She was so excited to see him. But when it came time to go up to him and say hi, at first it was a little scary, but then she hugged him and gave him a high 5.


She waited patiently for her turn to go up to Snoopy.


Daddy had to encourage her a little.



She eventually gave him a hug.