Hurricane Sandy and Evan’s First Halloween

Yeah, a lot happened in the last week and I didn’t have a chance to blog about it so it all has to be crammed into one post.  Otherwise I’d be writing about Halloween in two weeks.  And as it is, I’m already way behind the crowd, so I thought I’d get it written as quickly as possible.  So a blog that covers a ton of topics is in order.

First line of business?  We survived Hurricane Sandy without too many problems.  I was pretty surprised because our entire area was spared – nothing like NJ or NY.  There were trees down and lots of people without power, but that was about it.  Metro was shut down in DC and the federal government closed for two days, but we were quite lucky.  Just in case, we made sure we were prepared.  We bought lots of food to last us (ok, so chips, caramels, stuff to make chocolate chip cookies, and almond M&M’s aren’t really survival foods) and we filled our bathtub with water along with every pitcher or water bottle we owned (that’s what the bottom left picture is below – our bathtub is cracked so the owners of our condo nicely filled it in with some gray gunk…yeah, our apartment has some “quality” features).

The middle picture above is suppose to show the crazy winds but it’s not really conveyed.  It’s hard to show wind since you have no idea what those trees normally look like.  But you can see that it was a cloudy day, right? 

And the top photo?  Yeah, that is our leaking roof.  Yup, I guess the roof is leaking and so we got this big bubble of water that formed in our ceiling during the hurricane rains.  Then some bubbles formed on the wall.  Then a hole formed in the ceiling bubble and a bunch of water ended up on our floor.  And the bubbles on the wall collapsed and water slid down the drywall.  So now our ceiling is about as cool as our bathtub.  The condo is responsible for the roof so since this is essentially a result of a leaky roof, it is there responsibility to fix our ceiling and wall – but who knows how long that will take.  Our place just keeps getting better and better!

The day after the hurricane I went for a walk with Dolce to assess the damage in the neighborhood.  There were lots of trees down, but that was about it.  We live in an older neighborhood so there are a ton of trees and lots of them are old, so they fall down easily.  Although I know of people who had trees down in their yard, our neighborhood didn’t have too much damage.

And now for Halloween!

Evan was extra cute in his Halloween costume.  His aunt bought him a tiger outfit to wear, so of course we put him in it!  And my mom bought him the bib, and since he only has one “first” Halloween we made sure he wore it that day.  I think he’s a pretty adorable tiger!

We didn’t do any serious trick-or-treating though.  My sister’s in-laws all met at her house with their kiddos and then headed out in the neighborhood together so we joined them.  There were six kids so it was fun to watch them go door-to-door but Evan just hung back.  We only took him to two houses because we didn’t really need a bag full of candy (because of course Evan is too young to eat candy).  It was fun though!

So, that’s that.  Hurricane Sandy and Halloween.

And I can’t believe it’s November already and Evan is 8 weeks old.  Crazy stuff!  Where does all the time go????