Alert the media!

Well, Tropical Storm Edouard came through Houston. It was Jamie's second named storm and Connor's first. For a while it looked like it was going to hit Houston directly, and we were worried mainly about a prolonged power outage, but I have to say that the experience was actually quite pleasant. The storm jogged a little to the north and east of us so we weren't on the "dirty" side of it. What we got was a day of rather nice, steady, soaking rain of the kind that we rarely get in Houston, where it tends to not rain for weeks and then pour buckets and buckets down for an hour so everything floods.

The boys were home from school anyway so for the first part of the day we just cozied up inside and watched the rain. Except that we had to go out briefly because someone called and wanted to show the house. Then in the afternoon we went to the "Dinosaur Museum" (Museum of Natural Science) before heading to Jamie's swim lesson. Connor had a lot of fun with what he calls the "Waya-saurs", roaring away at the T-Rex. At some point we went through a section that had some displays in windy corridors and he would lose track of Jamie and I for maybe two minutes. When he saw us again, he would act like it had been AGES and say "HI DADDY!!!!" and come running up and give my leg a big hug. Very nice.

The funny thing was that earlier that day I had noted to Sarah that in anticipation of a big news day, the local media had fanned out all across the city (nothing gets them worked up down here like a storm-I think all the reporters think it's going to be their Anderson Cooper moment.) The best they could come up with were stories like people at the local Denny's who didn't have rain gear and had to walk 20 feet to their car. I'm not kidding: "Focus over there if you can, see... they're getting very wet!" GASP! So I said to Sarah that morning if we go out today there is a 1 in 2 chance we'll be interviewed. And sure enough the second time we went out we got approached by a reporter for the Houston Chronicle at the Museum. We didn't really have a lot to say, because there was NO STORY! Except that our boys are very cute.