Aaaah ... it's the weekend!

Why is it that when you put something in writing, or share it on your blog, it is immediately contradicted? I posted about how wonderfully Megan has been sleeping and that very night she was up at 4 am crying!! She calmed herself down and fell back to sleep but she hadn't even been doing that for a couple weeks. She sleeps through thunderstorms but sometimes she just wakes up. That's a head-scratcher... but I suppose waking up occasionally sure beats those first few weeks after she was born, waking up multiple times to eat throughout the night. I'll take it!

Remember how I posted that we had some excitement with all the tornado sirens the other day? Well, it happened again only this time it was in the middle of the night while James was in LA. Yes, James was out of town and we had bad storms two nights in a row. Lucky him ... he got to sleep! Me? Not so lucky. The crazy dog freaks out at the first sign of thunder so I know I won't sleep when we're expecting storms. I've come to terms with that. Monday night (I think it was Monday) it started to storm right when I was going to bed. Right. Needless to say the dog had me up a few more hours until the rain passed. Tuesday night, however, it didn't start until 3:00 am. I remember waking up going "Oh, it's already 3? I got 5 hours so I guess I'm ok if I have to be up the rest of the night.". Right. So I turned on the TV to check the weather, and hopefully to calm the dog, and I'm watching live weather reports of some serious storms south of me. I'm thinking, "OK, south of us. We bit the bullet again." Right. Around 4 am the storms start to flare up in my neighborhood and the radar is showing little swirly things right on the county line, which is about a mile down the road. THEN ... THE TORNADO SIRENS. AT 4:00 AM ... AND I'M HOME ALONE. WWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I raced upstairs and grabbed Megan. Poor girl. She was so sleepy that she didn't shake the cobwebs out and realize she was awake until we were already in the bathroom downstairs. I know the sirens don't necessarily mean a tornado is bearing down on my house at that exact moment in time but you never know ... someday it just might and I don't want to be that woman who left their 4 month old child sleeping upstairs during a disaster. :) Like on an episode of Cops or something. Once she realized she was no longer snuggly asleep in bed she decided she was hungry. It was a long few minutes until the sirens stopped, and the radar finally updated, that I felt comfortable getting a bottle ready for her. I was able to get her back to sleep around 5 and we all slept until about 8 so it wasn't so bad. A little scary but not so bad, now that it's over. It was a wild night all across the area. A few tornadoes did actually touch down but none in our area. They were reporting wind gusts up to 80 mph. And I thought I left hurricanes when we left Pearland!! I have never in my life heard, and reacted to, actual tornado sirens and I had to twice in about a week's time. Weird. Very weird. I'm ready to never have to do it again. Especially alone at 4:00 am. I do wish I had a camera with me in the closet though because the dog burrowed into the darkest corner behind my hanging shoe thing and my shirts so all I could see was her head poking out.

On top of not getting any sleep because of the storms, I ended up with more than a slight cold. My head was so stuffy it like it was packed with concrete! Then I started coughing too. UGH! I still can't hear and I'm still coughing but I feel a million times better. Nothing like being a single mom during crazy storms and a bad cold. God bless those who really have to do it. I was finally feeling better yesterday and set out to clean the house. I got a lot done. I cleaned the shower. I did ALL the laundry. I changed the sheets and vacuumed. It doesn't sound like much but trust me, it kept me busy. Well, that and Megan. :-) The maids' last trip out here was two weeks ago so I'm hurting now that it's all on me again! It was a good gift but maybe I'm spoiled now. We're hoping they can continue coming out to only do the downstairs but they're kinda flaking on when they can fit us back in. I guess I'm getting such a good deal they're hoping I'll just go away. No chance. I don't wanna clean!!

James was lucky his flight was not on MD-80 so he made it home on time Thursday. We've had great weather since the storms moved out and should for a few more days. It makes it all worth it. I actually got some sun outside earlier today while planting some flowers. It is nice to see some color out on our patio again. Our hibiscus barely survived the winter (mostly in our garage) but they're both coming back. Our Maple is finally leafing out so we know it's still alive. We spoke with a landscape company about doing some work in our front yard. The competition in our neighborhood is stiff for 'Yard of the Month' so we're calling in some professional help. We should have their proposal early next week so we'll know if we can afford said professional help.

That's all for now. James is almost done with the yard and I think we have plans to do something tonight so it might be time to find my way to the shower. Or maybe to the beer fridge ... ;-)

New toy. I'm not sure she's actually big enough for this yet but she LOVES it. So far, she's only in it when she's closely supervised.

Another new 'favorite thing to do'. She loves this Bumbo chair. I hated the stupid things and didn't want one and some lady told us we HAD to get one while we were registering so James HAD to add it. (growl) I think my problem was putting kids in them when they werent' big enough and they're all slumped over. It just didn't look right. Now that she can sit, with help, she LOVES this stupid chair. I'm now a believer. I guess. Especially now that they got their act together and made a new tray to go on it that totally rocks. Everything goes straight to the mouth now too. "Oh! A Caterpillar! MMMMM! Must eat it!"