Life in the Midwest

We had another tornado warning this morning, at 2:30 am!!! Brad and I woke up to the city's tornado siren and the Residence Hall alarm. A tornado had touched down in West Omaha and was heading our way. We got Donovan out of his bed and headed to the cinder block laundry room for shelter and watched the wind and rain out the door, the wind was blowing so hard that Brad thought it might blow the tree outside right on top of our cars. By the time we called and woke Lenna and Scott up, the tornado warnings had turned into severe thunderstorm warnings...sorry guys. We were back in bed at 3:30 with no damage to our cars or the building.

In other news, I didn't take many pictures of our adventures this week. We took Donovan to a real pool for the first time yesterday, Lenna and Scott have a pool at their apartment complex so we headed over there to play with them. The water was a little cold, but it felt pretty good compared to the hot, sauna-like air. I think it got up to 91 yesterday. Anyway, Donovan didn't really think much of it at first, but I think he enjoyed floating around in Mason's floatie. Mason didn't mind that Donovan was using it, so everyone was happy. We were in there long enough for Donovan to get a pretty cute tan line. I had him in a rash guard so he has a little farmer tan. I wish I had pictures, I really was a slacker. Lenna took a couple, but I will just have to take some at the next pool outing. I am sure we will have plenty of them this summer.

I did take a couple. Donovan is struggling with the whole nap thing right now, I am really hoping we get it figured out in the next few months. The day that we went to the zoo, he didn't take one nap, but still stayed up until 7:30 and slept until almost 8:00 the next morning. The day after, he took a very short nap in the morning and was getting grumpy around 5:00 so I put him in his new high chair (which Brad picked out and couldn't have done a better job, it's great!) and he ate gold fish and his crunchies. I guess he was pretty tired, this is the first time he had ever fallen asleep in his chair.

Yesterday, I was doing the dishes while Donovan was playing with his daddy and I thought I was safe, but he is just too helpful, he had to come over and help his mommy.It's pretty hard to get mad at this face, I do succeed sometimes, but not this time!
The worst part of the week was me swimsuit shopping, oy, I did not enjoy that. If anyone has a good place to get a fairly inexpensive swimsuit that is actually cute, let me know. All I can find are bikinis and ugly one pieces. My torso does not fit in a one piece and nobody wants to see my torso in a bikini!!

That was our week in a nutshell, pretty uneventful.