The times they are a changin...

Well, not so much the times as the seasons. Dry season has been giving way to rainy season with afternoon showers here and there, but yesterday we got an all out storm complete with thunder, lightening, and hail. I realized just how out of practice I am at rainy season activities. I was in the middle of art class with the Groen girls when the rain started and Elizabeth, who was watching Silas, had to remind me that the laundry needed to come off the line! I didn't think to shut windows until the rain and wind were really going meaning I got pretty wet in the process and a few rooms got drenched!
Here's a shot of our bedroom in disarray after I began moving things around to dry. The pack and play had standing water in it and our bed was soaked along with books that had been in the floor of Jude's room.

The fact that we leave our windows open, plus they aren't really sealed even when closed really limits the placement of furniture in this house. Even without placing major furniture next to windows things can still get pretty wet if the wind is going.

In other random news...

Nearly a month ago we had an art show in our hallway to display the Groen girls' art work from the last year+. We did a very broad overview of art history. My favorite project (and probably the most successful) was the Georgia O'keefe flower lesson.

Jude is really into sorting things and putting matching things together. Here's a shot of him having sorted the diapers by color, inserts and wipes in their own piles. The inserts at the foot of the bed were his "garden" and the ones in his lap were "wood". This kid has quite an imagination!

Despite my best efforts to prevent it, Silas is well on his way to being a thumb sucker! He still uses a paci quite a bit, but often he just pushes it out of the way to get his fist in his mouth. He's just discovered the thumb.

Apologies for not posting much about work lately. My camera has gone missing and I hate making posts without at least one picture. I guess I'm just a visual person. Anyway, despite the fact that I took a photography class in college and even printed my own pictures I've completely forgotten what F stop means! I finally got Carson to set another camera to Auto for me so as soon as I get some good shots I'll put up an update on work things. Have a great weekend!