It's been raining for the last 10 days. We haven't seen the sun since two Saturdays ago. We live in the sunshine state. It's not good to combine boisterous 19 month old, house with no basement, lots of rain and long weekend together. You end up with said 19 month old quite literally bouncing off the walls, and climbing and did I mention jumping off objects not meant to be jumped off? His new favorite thing is to climb on chairs, like a recliner, and stand on the very edge tempting fate and your patience. As your thermometer rises, all in the hopes you save a trip to the emergency room and the interrogation from Child and Family Services, he gets oh so much enjoyment out of it. Time out you say if you don't cut it out and that only gets his juices going more. The smiles come out for him. For you the frustration grows. He laughs. Oh, that little stinker. The real problem is, and don't I know it loud and clear, is he's just like me. The second you tell him not to do it he's doing it for the next 20 minutes. That makes it so much worse. You're ready to kill him and you know you would be doing the same thing. It's irony slapping you silly right upside the head. Oh, that painful irony. So for all those babysitters I terrorized this is your payback. You probably don't even know it but it's driving me crazy. Crazy!!
Fourth of July we wake up and please let it not be raining. It's raining. You have got to be kidding me. Junior was so crabby the day before we didn't know if we would survive it. What did we end up doing? We went to the mall to unleash our little monster in the play area. We thought it was the greatest idea ever. (Internally, I am thinking where did I go wrong in this life where I am spending the glorious 4th of July in a mall)? My brats. My beer. My pyrotechnics. No explosions? Not even a little one? So, we end up at the mall. Well, it turns out there were approximately 753 parents that had the same idea. There was 1,000 kids in this little play area and the parents were so happy to let them have it. The kids were all spazzing out. It's a two way street bouncing off the walls. We finally wear out Quentin and go home to spend the evening inside (oh the tragedy!) as it rained all night long. Sure, you could suck it up, garner your rain gear and head out to the beach to see rain soaked fire works, but the point is to have fun right? Does that sound like fun? We had tickets to see a baseball game. It's outdoors. It didn't happen. The sunshine state letting me down.
On Monday we wake up to, yup, more stinking rain. I have a new creek in my back yard. The drought of last summer is well behind us. It's still raining! That's it we're heading to Gator Fred's. Carrie discovered this when Q was a little tyke and got invited to a birthday party. For $6 you can let your kid run loose in place filled with those bouncy house things. You know that are filled with air and you can climb around and tumble and jump and literally bounce of the walls. We dropped him off in there and he loved it. They had 5 or 6 different ones on one side of the place and the other was different themed houses. There was a firehouse, pizza kitchen, movie theatre, dress up location and who knows what else. It was a crazy mad house in there but your kid can go nuts. He had a great time. We wore him out good, came home and put him to bed.
We woke up this morning and it's still raining. For crying out loud! I am leaving for Atlanta tomorrow so I really hope the sun is shining there. There was a brief rain break for lunch so we let Lucky out for 10 minutes. I walk out the patio door and see a snake. I think it's dead. It's not moving and I can see its tongue sticking out so I think it's dead. I take a closer look. His mouth is open because he's halfway through devouring a big old toad. Only the back legs are hanging out. Lucky comes over now. The snake is freaking out. Carrie is really freaking out. She's running to climb on top of the patio furniture. The dog isn't quite sure what do and either am I. I'm sort of keeping my distance. The snake is running - fast! with his mouth still full but he's on the patio so there is nowhere to hide and the dog is chasing him. The snake eventually cruises all the way around the house and Lucky and I just let him go. It's the Discovery channel over here.
Here are a few pics from the monsoon weekend.
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