Ice Storm

It's been a busy couple of weeks! The day after her cereal, our power went out and stayed out for 6 full days! We didn't get our phones back until Friday, so they were out for 9 days. Madison and I went up to Hartford City and stayed with my parents for the whole time, while Curtis stayed here and tried to keep the pets warm with Mom & Dad's kerosene heater. While we were very grateful that we had a warm place to stay, we were all very happy to get back into our own comfy beds! The tree in our front yard was the first thing to go in my block. It looked really pretty though when the snow hit Friday night. What actually prompted us to get the heck out of the house was when we heard a really loud crash in the backyard. Several days later when I finally decided it was safe enough to go out there, I saw what it was that made such a racket. This tree took out our fence and our phone line. No wonder it was so loud! All the trees are cleaned up and our phone line is fixed, I'm just waiting for the fence to get fixed so Veronica can run free back there again. It was definitely an adventure! We started giving Madison barley cereal last Wednesday. She isn't as fond of it as she was the rice cereal, but she still eats it okay. I gave her rice cereal this morning, and it confused her again. She had gotten used to the barley, so the change threw her off again. Tonight we are starting her with peas. Yuck! We'll see how that goes. She may spit that out all over the place. Her new thing is getting up onto her hands and knees and rocking back and forth. She has tried moving forward, but other than a few times when she has actually made it a few strides, she usually just ends up doing a faceplant on the floor. She's definitely trying though. She gets around plenty fast anyway, so I don't know what the hurry is. Okay, well, if I think of anything else I will come back. Otherwise I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow to tell you how the peas went! Kimberly