Mike’s birthday is coming up on the ninth. I bought him Resident Evil 4 for Wii. I gave it to him early because we had game night last night and I thought he would like to play it with some of our buddies. Unfortunately, I had to retire early last night (was feeling a little loopy) so I didn’t get to gaze at the wonderful graphics that he’s been raving about all day. They’re definitely something. It almost makes me want to play but one look at the way Mike has to navigate both control and nunchuck makes me retreat back to my Google Reader and just say no.

I’ve uploaded a few new photos to our Flickr from our trip to the Aquarium last week. Liam enjoyed petting the sting rays. Mommy was a little edgy around the sting rays, given that she was stung by one while vacationing in South Carolina one summer. I accidently stepped on it (you know, it might help if their skin were a different color than say, SAND). We had also planned to go to Big Splash while I was on my vacation last week but unfortunately the weather was so bad that they had to close down. In fact, we’ve had quite a few storms the last few days. Mike took Liam over to my parents today so I could work some more on cleaning out the craft room (Mike was about to lay orange cones around the doorway….it was getting really bad). I big thunderstorm hit while they were there. Apparently, they both sat out in the sun room and watched while Liam pointed to the sky and said “Boom!”. Meanwhile, I was at Wal-mart picking up more storage bins. The down pour started just as I was leaving. I was a soggy-bottom girl by the time I got home. Still, there’s something about being drenched in thunder storm rain that’s very refreshing.