Blacked Out

Tonight Michael & Emma experienced their first ever blackout. What with all the wicked weather we've had today (pounding rain, but still no snow & relatively mild, considering), the blackout wasn't all too surprising. The thing with blackouts is you never know just how long they're going to last. I mean, we all remember the one a few years ago... y'know, the big one that wiped out the ENTIRE Eastern seaboard? The one that caused a huge baby boom cuz hell... they wasn't anything else to do.

So tonight we had one. It started at 5:00 pm. Just before I was going to get dinner on the stove. And the big kicker is that I actually had not one, but TWO dinners prepared. One being a huge homemade chicken soup (Jeff & I both have colds), and the other being a hearty meat sauce for some pasta. Both good options. Both requiring heat. At 6:15 I said to hell with it, and ordered a pizza. Not that anyone in our house NEEDS pizza. Christ, my kids don't even LIKE pizza. You're thinking that Michael would probably LOVE pizza, right? Remember people... it's the wheat... When I eat wheat, we ALL suffer. Of course, the pizza arrives, and two minutes later the lights come back on. And that, my dear readers, is the story of my life. Did I mention it was cold?

Here is Michael, realizing he's experiencing his first ever blackout:



On to other thigs... after the lights came back on, Michael & I were playing in my bed, and OH. MY. GOD. No... he didn't roll over. BUT he discovered his feet!!! My boy knows he has FEET!



And yesterday he figured out that he can actually play with the toys that hang above his head for so many hours of so many days:





Last week he also discovered his weiner. Jeff wouldn't let me take a photo. It's not like I was going to post it...