What a week

Since my reading radius is only the tri-state area I'm sure everyone knows what the last week has been like. A week ago Sunday Hurricane Ike rolled through Cincy, bringing wind gusts up to 70 mph. Our power flickerd slightly but never went off. Mom and Dad lost power so they grabbed what was supposed to be dinner at their house and AJ and headed over. Little did we know we were facing the largest power outage in tri-state history. At one like over 90% of Duke customers were without power. Schools and businesses were closed, gas stations ran out of gas, groceries had to through inventory away - it was nuts.

We were some of the lucky few who had power the whole time and that left us as a haven for the rest of the family. It was a little crowded here Monday, but we made it out unscathed.

In the midst of the chaos JT took his first steps. Sunday night he went from me to Jim - 2 steps, unassisted. He's done this a few times now but seems to chicken out after that. At his last appointment Dr. Schroer recommended getting him a good pair of shoes to help the process. We headed out to Stride Ride today and got him measured for his "walkers". I'd been putting him in size 3s and 4s . . . he measured a 5 which means he should be in a 5 and a half. We asked if that was big for a 10 month old . . . the lady looked at us and said, "um, yeah." We picked out a cute pair of fancy gym shoes, plopped down $50 (yes, I said $50!) and walked out. We then went to Dillards and bought Jim 5 shirts for the same price as JT's shoes.

He seems to like them, especially the fact that it makes so much more noise when he kicks things - he is all boy.