Yesterday's Fire

So, yesterday was a rather eventful day in our little pocket of the world. The girls and I had gotten home from Gymboree and lunch with daddy and were taking a nap. Yes, that's right a nap. A wonderful hour I savored the rest of that day.... However, my glorious slumber was rudely awaken by the sounds of a helicopter flying so low over the house that the entire structure shook. It seemed low enough to try to land in my backyard. I tried ignoring it hoping and praying that the girls would continue sleeping. Then came the sirens. And then more helicopters trying to land on my house!

Okay now I'm freaking out. There's something going on nearby and helicopters could mean 1. There's something news worthy happening (but I didn't think news helicopters were allowed to fly so low). 2. They are looking for a fugitive in which case I better wake the heck up. 3. It's an insanely hot day (in the 100s perhaps?) and there could be a fire nearby in which case I better wake the heck up. So I bounce off the sofa, and look out the front living room window. Nothing but clear blue skies. I look out the back dining room window. Ack!!! Plumes and plumes of smoke really nearby. So I run upstairs to the master bedroom, open the window and look! There's one of those helicopters with the big baskets dumping hundreds of gallons of water over all that smoke! This is both wonderfully exciting and terrifying at the same time. So, what do I do, I run downstairs to grab the camera. This is too cool!

At some point, Mekayla wakes up. So, there we are, Mekayla, Norbert and me both looking out the window at the smoke and the helicopter (which she calls a plane). I take pictures of the helicopter, Mekayla watching the helicopter, Norbert watching the helicopter and getting all growly and Busy Bill going to check out the fire behind that one neighbor's house. It's cute but everytime the helicopter flies off, Mekayla will say, "Bye bye plane! Bye bye plane!" BTW, Busy Bill is a guy that lives somewhere behind us. He likes to know what's going on in the neighborhood and goes around checking things out. The house you see in the 2nd picture is pretty much right in front of his. Anyways, here are some pictures. BTW, if you notice specks on the pictures, it's from my rather dirty windows. Please try to ignore them...



I'm not sure if you can tell but this fire is really close by. It is just round the corner from my house. Carter walked by when he got home to see what the deal was. Turns out there was a brush fire (there's a big empty grass lot behind those homes) and the brush fire spread to 2 of the homes there. (sad) The police guy said at that time that they were investigating the fire and they think it's arson. Yikes. I wonder about my neighborhood sometimes.

Anyways, closer to the home front. I'm taking my 1st sewing class tomorrow... Yes, Carter bought me a sewing machine for my birthday in 2007 and I'm finally taking my sewing class. MJ's latest cute word is "Awesome". We had dinner at Black Angus last night and when the giant appetizer platter arrived, she said, "Wow.... Awesome." So very adorable. Nadia is smiling buckets and has even laughed a few times at some of the whacky things we do for her. She's probably thinking my parents are nuts! She used to do this cute thing where everytime she saw you she'd smile and coo and coo and this would go on and on for minutes. She's just stopped doing that which has totally broken my heart. (sob) Now she coos at the fan and fish in her swing... ??


Also, we are starting potty training tomorrow. Are we prepared? I don't know... We bought 2 potties. Does that count? 1 to keep at home and 1 travel potty. A lot of good stories should come out of this one. I don't know why but the thought of it just terrifies me. All I can say is God bless us... Everyone.