Hurricane Irene is still making herself felt from NC to the Northeast. Thousands of people in this area are still without power. Children have gone back to school in most places in the state, but there are still schools scattered about the area that are closed with no power. I was lucky to have weathered the storm with family in PA. The initial reason for that trip was to celebrate little Abby's first birthday, but that got postponed, because many of the activities planned for the event were to be outdoors. I was encouraged to come up anyway so I didn't have to ride out the storm solo.
Abby didn't seem to mind the birthday delay. Quite honestly, I don't think she has a concept of birthdays yet. She is a contented child with a sweet smile, and she has become very mobile in the last few weeks.
The older girls always want to do a "craft" when I come to visit. This time we made picture frames decorated with stick-on additions. Both Ava and Elizabeth did a very nice job of it.
Both Jake and Emily are very active two-year-olds, with Jake being the senior of the two. Jake thinks Emily hung the moon and is never happier than when she is around and will play with him.
Jake surprised me at one point. This not-yet-three little one was sitting with what we used to call an etch-a-sketch, and he was working away at it. I thought I heard him say, "Now I'm going to draw an oval" and by golly he did! I've known first graders who couldn't do as well!
Other than some flooding in one niece's basement and loss of power for their family for several days, we seemed to have weathered to storm well. Actually, I think their area got more rain than we by at least an inch, but my house lost power for almost a day. There have been many times when outages here were considerably worse than that. Perhaps all the preparation work BGE has been doing, upgrading lines and poles and trimming trees, has paid off. I'll take it.
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