Swine Flu

So I spent this past week recovering from a cold that I caught from Joshua, but with all the news with Swine Flu (sorry H1N1 is not a cool name), it made me and everyone else a little more paranoid. Of course our VP Joe Biden didn't make matters any better with this little gaffe. I kept thinking maybe I had it and then had to remind myself that I wasn't running a fever, just feeling awful and watching too much news. I'm sure some people may have thought they got Swine Flu when I went out in public and hacked a lung, but oh well...had to get food for us to eat in the house and take Joshua to school! I tried to remember to use my 'Cough Pocket', but it's hard to remember that when you've been taught to use your hand! But everyone else here is pretty vigilant (paranoid). Our school district has closed the schools for a week and I can tell kids have nothing to do because our doorbell has been rung twice tonight as I see a kid dashing away.

It worked out well because the whole week was rainy around here, so we spent a lot of time indoors. The weather was really bad on Saturday. Here's some pictures of what happened to the Cowboys Practice Facility in Saturday. Luckily, we did not get this random microburst of strong wind, but it was pretty scary. We had to postpone a trip to the zoo, so we are hoping it's better weather this week.

Not much going on in the world of Joshua. He likes to 'talk' on his phone and it's funny to see him try and imitate what we do when we talk on the phone. He's also becoming a lot more vocal and parroting what we say. He's learned the word 'please', but he only uses it when asking for food and that's if he REALLY wants it and with some prompting.