Holes, storms, and summer bucket lists

This week, tragedy struck our home.

This precious girl and her sister had some bandaids on various "injuries" and wore her bandaid to bed at naptime.

When it was time to go to sleep that night Ruby broke into panicked sobs.

She had discovered that her bandaid was stuck to the underside of her blanket.

I proceeded to rip it off and in the process left half of it attached.

That sucker was stuck.

Ruby was inconsolable so I got out my scissors.

And proceeded to remove the bandaid and part of the blanket.

To my relief, Ruby didn't notice the new ventilation in her blanket, so I tucked her in and left the room with my fingers crossed.

30 seconds later I heard heart-wrenching sobs coming from the very soul of my littlest girl.

I went back into Ruby's room to find her huddled over the hole in her blanket, huge crocodile tears streaming down her cheeks.

I took her into the rocking chair and calmed her best I could. After several different suggestions, she popped her head off my chest and said, "I lay on top."

Seconds later, she was up again "But my feet get cold, I lay under blanket."

And then "I not cry."

  

I flipped the blanket around so it's not as noticeable and thankfully she hasn't seemed to mind too much.

I don't know how I ended up with two children who care so much about the particulars of life!

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Today we had some excitement on the weather front.

The girls and I went to the zoo this afternoon while Aleks was training about 30 minutes away. The second we walked through the gate, tornado sirens started wailing.

I wasn't sure whether to find shelter at the zoo or head home.

I ran my disappointed kids to the car and sped home.

We were about 20 minutes ahead of the storm and managed to make it into the garage before anything really began.

We went immediately to the basement and turned on the news.

At the worst point we headed into the bathroom.

Maia had brought all her stuffed animals in with us.

Except for teddy. Her favorite.

She started crying really hard that she needed him.

I agreed to run upstairs and grab him, if they promised to stay in the basement.

I opened the basement door, saw hail hammering the windows and that the sky was green.

I immediately went back downstairs.

Maia was not pleased.

Ruby was more concerned about Maia than the storm.

The girls cuddled together on Baia (the bunny).

Thankfully Aleks was able to find shelter in the midst of training and made it home to us, safe and sound.

I'll take earthquakes over tornados any day.

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In other news, my duties at WSU for the semester are officially over and we're getting geared up for summer.

I've seen other people create summer bucket lists and decided to do one for my family this year.

Here's what we came up with:

Some are very ambitious, so we shall see how many things get checked off.

What's on your summer bucket list?