Hurricane Fay

Juju rocking out-she has always
loved heavy metal!
Poor little fellow getting some much needed rest

Friday night- first night of the storm. Both kids thought it was pretty cool.

This huge tree bent almost to the ground when
the wind was blowing

A very small example of the debris that is everywhere


We have been dealing with Hurricane Fay (which was actually downgraded to Tropical Storm Fay a long time ago) since Friday morning. I've never experienced this type of weather before and I'm not gonna lie, it made me a little nervous that first day! I guess the thought of a hurricane conjures up so many horrible memories of seeing what other people have gone through and lost in them. But it wasn't really all that bad, just TONS and TONS of hard rain and very gusty winds. It finally let up a little yesterday but every hour or two there's still a bad rainstorm for a few minutes. There are lots of trees down and tons of debris everywhere. There are big flooded areas in yards and parking lots, in fact I think we messed our car up driving through a lake at the pediatrician's office this morning. Evidently a lot of people lost power, luckily ours blinked a few times but didn't stay off. Julia did not have school today and doesn't tomorrow because of it. I know we need the rain, but this is getting ridiculous!

There's not much else going on. We think we figured out that Alex has acid reflux after doing some research on the internet. He has every single symptom. We just know that there is something wrong with him besides colic- we took him to the doctor this morning to see what they thought and it was a horrible experience that I won't even go into. The pediatrician is just awful, uncaring and unsympathetic and thinks we are bad and stupid parents and that his problems are just his personality. We managed to squeeze a prescription for Zantac out of her, only after committing to a barium swallow test (where he would have to drink dye and have an x-ray!) which we canceled after we got home. We are obviously going to change doctors. He has had 1 dose of the Zantac at 3:30 today and he has already acted happier and slept better than he has in 2 months! We hope to goodness that this is the problem and that we're finally on the right track, no thanks to our incompetent doctor.