Reid and Stefani Adopt

This past Friday, Esther got sick. She woke up with a temperature of 101 degrees.  She stayed home from school and slept with Cooper to keep her company.  She was better by about 3 or 4 pm, and didn't miss out on playing with her friend Angela while Isaac was at soccer practice.   On Saturday, Isaac concocted this idea that he wanted to make our home movie night more like the movie theater.  With his dad's help, he went to the store and bought pop and then came home and made movie theater concessions for us to buy.  He made movie tickets and served us while we watched "How to Train Your Dragon III."  

Esther and Isaac like to pretend to be actual hurricanes.  My house often looks like a hurricane came through, but this is different.  Esther was pretending the blanket was the Bahamas, and she was hurricane Dori-Anne, as she says it (no matter how many times I explain how to pronounce Dorian).  Then she roped Isaac into the game.  I'm not sure whether I should laugh out loud or be a little horrified.

We got out of school for 3 extra days after Labor Day because of the threat of Hurricane Dorian.  Whereas he did much damage and awfulness elsewhere, he didn't even really hit most of Florida.  Waiting for that storm was very drawn out and awful, and then he never really reared his ugly head at us.  Isaac was so upset that the hurricane never really came that he cried about it.  Really what he was disappointed about was not getting to kayak in the streets like our neighbor had promised.  I however, am grateful that no damage was done in my little neck of the swamp that is Florida. So we went to Sea Life Orlando and Madame Tussauds wax museum in Orlando on Tuesday, and  LegoLand on Wednesday.  I think this was preferable to kayaking in the streets. The Axolotl.  The "walking Mexican fish."  It is a salamander that can live its entire life underwater if it never decides to leave.  Once it leaves, it will finish development into an adult, but not until it leaves the wa