TheThiers

Yesterday, we had no idea it would flood here. We’d heard about it flooding about 100 miles North of us in Marble Falls. But the rain hadn’t been too bad lately, so it truly caught me by surprise.

In fact, yesterday, I moved the car from the driveway so the boys could run thru the sprinklers on the driveway (and away from ants in the yard)…but of course, they had to help me do it…

Then they played in the sprinklers…

Then they ate watermelon…

[Look closely, this wasn't his first piece!!]

All around, it was a typical summer day. So this morning there’s a thunderstorm, and our power goes out. Once the boys wake up I decide to run errands. I had actually jogged through my neighborhood (in the drizzle) a few hours before and there were no signs of flooding. But then as I drive out, this is what I see:

[A road in my neighborhood. You'll see a progression here...]

[The entrance to my neighborhood.]

[Across the street from the entrance, on Boerne Stage Rd.]

[Cross Mountain Church on Boerne Stage Rd.]

[Oops, I guess I can't get out on Boerne Stage Rd...You might want to look closely at this one.]

[Bridge for Twin Creeks Subdivision.]

[I saw a few people going around barricades (on Boerne Stage Rd/Scenic Loop).]

[Oops, gotta turn around again on Toutant Beauregard Rd.]

[One of the many little waterfalls on Babcock Rd.]

[Yay, I made it out, although even the interstate is dangerous (see the splash coming from this car? it's actually drenching the car beside it!)]

[Lastly, I feel really sorry for whoever owns this!]

So it was quite an exciting day! Once we got back home (and our power was back on, yay!!), the boys napped, and then Chance watched tv…like this:

One last thing. In my last post, I talked about how Charlie slept the entire time I went to drop off a meal to a friend. Well, one part I left out is I had to keep giving Chance chocolate chip cookies in order to keep him quiet (and not waking up Charlie). Well, this is what he looked like afterwards:

That 3 letter word is really doing a number in our house.

“Why is it raining, Momma? Why is that music playing on that movie? Why? Why? Why?”

Charlie has hit the “Why?” stage, but not with intelligible questions yet. He also asked “Are we there yet?” yesterday.

This evening Chuck said, “Charlie, you have big muscles.” He replied, “But Daddy, the dentist said I have a small mouth!” I guess he truly believes he isn’t “big” anymore.

He also plays games all day. Slap Jack with cards, play doh, hide-and-go-seek, etc. He often says, “Chancey, you can’t find me…” from his hiding place. It’s so funny…because instead of finding him, Chance will go hide as well.

Today we went to bring a friend dinner, and on the way Charlie fell asleep. When he woke up we were almost back home and he said “Why our friends have to live so far away?!” He thought we were still on the way there, an hour later!

Also, tonight, he came to me all giddy saying, “Momma I found a little lobster!” Further investigation showed it was a scorpion! Yikes!

I know these are just tidbits, but I’ve been meaning to record them.

~Father’s Day was great, and I felt I needed to record it… Charlie and I picked out a portable hammock for Chuck a few weeks ago, and I instructed Charlie not to tell Daddy about it. Well, he told Daddy that we had a present for him, but I was SO proud of Charlie for not telling him what it was or where we hid it. What Charlie doesn’t know is that Chuck tricked me into telling him a week ago! Argh! Hehehe.

So for Father’s Day we gave Chuck his hammock and enjoyed some outdoor time (more slip-n-slide of course!).

Then we took naps…

And then we got a surprise visit from my dad and step-mom. That was so great! Charlie was so excited, and he tried to be so strong later when they left, but he sat at the window waving and saying “Bye Bye, I love you!” over and over, until he was in tears. While they were here, my dad said he’d get Chance to nap while the rest of us went to Target. So he said he spent about 15 minutes reading Chance a book, then Chance fell asleep with him. That’s amazing, considering Chance doesn’t usually fall asleep unless he’s in his crib. “Big Daddy” has the touch I guess.

~I took the boys to the park today, even though it was about 90 degrees out, hoping to run off some energy for nap time. It worked. On the way home I told Charlie he had two options. Read books in bed or take a nap. He said “how bout I just skip options today?” I thought that was pretty funny.

In other news, it finally dawned on me (one of those, “well, duh!” moments) that I could put verses on photos now. I’ll post a couple and if you want to see more just click on these and it’ll take you to where they are.

I have more funny stories to share, but it’ll have to wait til tomorrow… So stay tuned.