Our Week of Stuff

We had another Typhoon hit this week. This time it came during the night a few days ago. That was a very sleepless night. The wind was howling and I kept hearing sheets of metal tearing off the sheds behind us. We have large windows in our bedroom that overlook the subway construction and a bike path. I had this fear all night that something was going to come flying through our window. I actually heard something rather large hit the side of our house during the night. When I woke up in the morning this is what I saw behind our house. The roof had blown off the sheds and was in the bike path. The rest of the day was very rainy. Not just little showers, they were down pours. I have never seen it rain so much. Unfortunately, they didn't cancel school this time.

Rachel woke up this morning and twisted her ankle as she was walking down our stairs before school. It is a pretty bad sprain. We hope it's not broken. It doesn't look like it but she definately will be out of commission for awhile. She stayed home from school and was pampered by our AYI. All her years of competing in gymnastics without injuries and she gets hurt walking down the stairs in her own home. Fortunately we found some crutches for her to use.

We got a Xbox 360 when we were in Hong Kong last week. Of course Gavin wanted the driving games and got the steering wheel along with it. He has been practicing his driving since this will be the closest he will get to it until next summer. Jonny got NFL Madden and an NBA game. We all gather around and watch him play because it actually feels like we are watching the real thing. That'll have to do since we don't get any real games here.

I just had to put this picture of our cute Vika in. She loves to pose for the camera. She was playing with her Cinderella cell phone pretending she was talking to her. When she saw me with the camera she came right over and started her posing. She is such a girlie girl.