Thursday

Good news from Bob's cousin - they get to return home today, the evacuation is lifted. No word about his grandmother, I'm assuming she get to go back as well.

Here's a Parker pic.

Big boy play therapy

For some reason, Parker has developed a fear of playing around bigger boys. I'm sure at one point on a playground, she was mowed over by one, and since then she's overly cautious. She will not play (or swim) if there are bigger boys around playing rough. So it was very nice this week when I met some friends at McDonalds for lunch and she had a great time playing with the boys. She was still very aware of where the big guys were, but she had fun playing along side them and playing with the smaller boy (in the orange shirt....he's a year younger than her, but they are the same size. Height, same height I mean. He outweights her by about 10 lbs)

Wednesday fire update

Bob's grandmother was evacuated from her nursing home in Rancho San Diego, and is staying at Bob's aunt's house, along with all the other evacuated relatives.

Update on California evacuations

9:35 central time -
Bob said his cousin Brenna (the blog I posted yesterday) was just given the order to evacuate by policemen going door to door. The Indian Reservation Fire is headed their way. Keep them in your thoughts today!

Pretty princesses

Here's the scene in my house at least twice a week. Parker and her little friend put on their dressup clothes and run around and play. Here, they're eating Goldfish crackers....except they don't usually eat much, they pick them up and pretend they are having little conversations. After Halloween, it should be very interesting, since I'll have a couple new costumes. It has taken us along time to work our a fair and equitable costume for each of them, and I bet there will be some bumps in the road when they want to wear the new stuff.

For Aunt Kimmie

Here's a picture for Parker's aunt Kimmie....Bob's sister. It's of Parker eating an avocado with a spoon right out of the skin (shell?). Kim loooooves avocados, and it looks like Parker, who hates everything that isn't juice or crackers, got the avocado gene. Notice she's bypassing the fishsticks on her plate, and is on her second half of avocado.

Speaking of Kim, and Bob's family in California, they are all very worried about the fire situation there. They are packed and poised and ready to evacuate if they get notice to. Their schools were shut down this morning, and freeways were closed, but are now reopened. Brenna posted some pictures of the smoke and winds on her blog: http://www.donnellydaze.blogspot.com/ (You have to scroll down past the kids )
So hold a good thought Bob's family! Hopefully things will calm down soon.