thanks edouard (or however you spell it)!

all we got was a lot of rain. a little bit of thunder and lightning last night, but just alot of rain today. since every place in houston closed down for the day (seriously!), we couldn't get any of my errands run, so i decided to make the best of it. we put on our raincoats and crocs, took our rubber duckies out of the tub, and let them race down the river that is our street (we live in a small cul-de-sac, which is great b/c there are never any cars driving by except our neighbors). anyway, tatum's big pink ducky consistantly beat avery's smaller pink ducky down the river. since i let avery choose which ducky to use, i didn't feel bad that hers kept losing. i didn't get a picture of the duck race b/c i was worried i would drop my camera in the water, but here are some pics of our front yard being hit by edouard.


in the above picture, you can see in the far left corner the "river" of water that our duckies raced on.

tatum's favorite word right now is "dis!!!"(this). the three exclamation points afterwards are important to let you know she really means it. also, today she dropped the baby bath in the tub and said "uh-oh." it was so cute.

okay, avery is another story. i try to remember all the funny things she says, but there are just too many. here's a couple i remember from this week:

i was showing her the pretty jewelry in the james avery catalog i got in the mail and of course i mentioned that it is called "james AVERY" and isn't that cool? the next day when we looked at it again, she called it the "james mama" catalog!

long story short... we are trying to figure out if she is big enough to ride in a booster seat instead of a regular car seat, so i took out the measuring tape and told her i needed to measure how tall she is to see if she meets the requirement (she does). anyway, a few minutes later, she asked me if she could borrow that thing because she wanted to "pleasure" me. i knew i shouldn't laugh too hard, but when i told brian later, we both died laughing! she still walks around the house with it "pleasuring" things. ha!