LEGO Kids

We've been seeing a lot of kids submit pictures of themselves and their LEGO creations to KidPak.  We show them up on the screens during and between services, and also on social media as well.  Today, Madison's picture joined the others, because she got together her Wonder Woman LEGO play set.  She's pictured here with Calvin, who was very helpful this morning, despite the fact that he sprained his ankle last week.  Yes, last week he tried to do a flip off an inflatable.  We briefly told the kids this morning that he had his brace on because stepped on a LEGO brick... but we told them the truth too.

We got home, and we went out again.  This time, it was off to the library to pick up another DC Super Hero Girls movie, and a few other books as well.  Daddy and Mommy got "Hollow City," the next book in the "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" series.  We picked it up because today is in fact Loop Day.  If you're familiar with the books, you know that September 3rd loops over and over again, a protective place in time to keep the kids.  Or, at least it was a protective time and place.  We'll see how the book progresses.  It's a little too creepy for Madison right now, so we read that one after she goes to bed.  In the meantime, her bedtime reading includes more of the Descendants characters, particularly Uma right now.  The three of us have been doing a lot of reading lately.  And praying too - we were praying tonight for those in the path of Irma.

Matthew got to be a category five hurricane last year, and Irma is now a category five, or at least it is expected to be.  But before that, the last category five to make contact with the US was before Madison was born.  So it's been a while.  In fact, she's never experienced the effects of a hurricane's path up here.  Obviously, we don't see the full wrath of a hurricane.  But they do stay powerful storms even up into the North Georgia Mountains, should they travel this way.  Hurricanes Opal and Katrina created spin-off storms, the latter of which destroyed the amusement park that Daddy used to work at every day in the early nineties.

Hopefully, this is another fluke year.  A hurricane is forming behind Irma, one named Jose.  That one is worrisome to us, as we have plans in the area roughly the same time as this one plans its visit.  But each year after Katrina, there were the usual spring predictions of a really strong hurricane season.  And each of these years, these predictions amounted to false prophecies.  This year, those same predictions were made and all those who made them were so proud of themselves for getting it right, whereas they're kind of quiet about the nine previous years that they got it wrong.  The point is, who knows?  At this point, no one can even tell where this one is going to make landfall.  All we know is that it is dangerous, and everyone is praying.  And that's about it.

Tonight, we played some more "LEGO Batman 2," and a few other games.  Madison finished her piano early for the week, so that we'll have more time tomorrow for other things.  Hopefully those will pan out.  But if not, yesterday was certainly fun.  And today was too.  This morning's service went well, and the kids were excited too see clips on the big screen of a LEGO video game.

Nana and Ba-Ba may be coming up soon, joining the rest of the evacuating Floridians.  It's going to be an interesting week for sure.