Today started with Jennifer and the girls going to the YMCA. We’ve been trying to go every Tuesday and Thursday morning and I was supposed to get up early and go before work, but it was hard getting out of bed after softball last night.

Today we received a present for Abby and Emily in the mail from Aunt Marci. She sent two flashlights, one shaped like a tiger and one like a hippopotamus. The girls loved the presents and played with them all afternoon.

We are currently watching the Presidential Debate. We are still undecided on who we are going to vote for. We don’t feel invading Iraq was the right thing to do, but on the other hand we really don’t like Kerry and his plans. We are still waiting to hear something from either candidate which will point us towards one of them. So far, no luck.

Today’s picture is of Emily sitting at the computer in the kitchen. She’s starting to say “cheese” when you point a camera in her direction. She also demanded to eat cheese for breakfast this morning and threw herself on the ground when I told her no.

It’s been a pretty non-eventful week, thus the absence of any entries at Frenchville. Today we finally got our clothes dryer fixed. The timer hasn’t been working for almost a year and a burning plastic smell was starting to emanate from the dryer. The Maytag Repair Man arrived today with a new timer and cleaned out the biggest hunk of lint that had ever been seen. Jennifer said the lint had beagle hair in it. Our beagles haven’t lived with us since we moved to Orlando a year and a half ago.

It’s possible that another hurricane is heading our way. Jeanne is currently heading towards South Carolina, but we are still in the projected path’s margin of error. We barely dodged Ivan, which turned out to be a pretty bad storm.

Today’s picture is of Emily being cute while the floor is half ripped up. It’s been a week now since the floor was installed. We’ve started putting our rugs back down and the house is starting to get back to the way it was before.

Not much went on today. Just a normal day with me going to work and Abby going to pre-school. There’s a story from Sunday night that I forgot to tell. We went to Quiznos to eat dinner and they had a neon sign which said “TOASTY”, but the first two letters were burn out. We were sitting there and Abby asked, “Mom…Dad, why are the ‘T’ and the ‘O’ not working?” We were floored that Abby actually new those letters in the alphabet. Lately she’s been talking about the letters “A” and “B”. She’s always saying “A” is my letter. “A” is for Abby. We figured they were slowly working their way through the alphabet at school and eventually they would get through the entire alphabet. We were amazed that she already knew those two letters. We told her that they had burned out and her next question was, “Did Charlie do it?” She’s been obsessed with the lights going out ever since Hurricane Charlie blew through. It’s a good thing we didn’t loose power when Frances came through.

Today’s picture is of Emily after eating some Oreo cookies. She’s point up in the pantry because she wants some more. Since then, we’ve learned that cookies right before bed time isn’t a very good thing to do.

The day started with the contractor arriving to rip out our old floor. They removed almost the entire floor and will start floating and installing the new floor tomorrow. They should be done by the end of the week.

We also offered to watch Connor and Lucas for a few days while their mom, Jane, goes to Tampa for some training for a new job she recently accepted. She had no where else to turn, so we offered to keep the kids for a few days. So we currently have four kids under the roof. That’s a roof with no floor. We went ahead and bought Emily a toddler bed and put it in Abby’s room and we moved the hide-a-bed that was in the living room to Emily’s old room. That put the girls in one room and the boys in another. We had a little trouble getting Abby and Emily to go to sleep, but Lucas and Conner went right to bed.