Ike

For those of you who haven't heard, we had a BIG hurricane here in Houston. Ike came through Friday, September 12th. So, at just over 5 months old, Maisie has experienced her first hurricane. I don't think she'll remember much, especially since she slept through the entire thing! Brian and I were up on and off all night listening to the 80+ mph winds blow. We, like 95% of Houstonians, lost electricity. But, Maisie didn't seem to mind the lack of air-conditioning quite as much as we did. After 2 days without power, we rode out the next few days at Brian's mom's house. Some of those pictures are below:

"Auntie Brooke there's a hurricane coming!" Waiting for Ike

Hanging at Grandma Lois', waiting for our power to come back on
MMmmmm, water bottles, one of my favorite toys:

Making funny faces with mom:

We were some of the lucky ones - we got our power back after 4 days. Its now almost 2 weeks later and we have many friends who still don't have power. We also sustained some cosmetic damage to our house from a downed limb from our neighbors tree. Again we were lucky, since we have friends with trees through their roofs.

In other news, Maisie continues reaching new milestones. She can now move around quite a bit and turn over. She doesn't do it for us very often, but when I go to get her from her crib she is often in a completely different place than where I put her down - sometimes sleeping on her stomach instead of her back. She is also SOOOO close to sitting up by herself. She can balance in the sitting position for about 10 seconds before falling over, and tonight she even pulled herself up from a reclined position into a sitting position. It won't be long.
Finally, Maisie has had her first taste of real food. So far she's had rice cereal, apples, and sweet potatos. When we get a chance we'll edit and post her first bites.