Carpool #8: More Then Meets the Eye

I was on my way to work today. The area of interest is a couple miles stretch with nothing but fields on either side.
It was in this area that I saw a flash of light that my brain first registered as the yellow flashing light on a garbage truck, since I had seen one earlier in the morning because today was our trash day. I looked around confused for the source of the light. Nothing.


A second later, I saw another flash of light except this time it looked more like lightning or more of a white light. I thought how odd that first flash was but then thought, well it is supposed to rain today so I thought nothing then of the flashing lights.


A few seconds more time had passed and now I am away from the area the flash’s first occurred. I looked in my mirror and see sparks shooting up and showering down to the ground as a transformer is getting cooked in vast changing array of bright colors. Now it all makes sense. Still, it’s definitely a weird way to start Monday.

OHhhhh

Allie just got over having a high fever. It’s obvious when she’s sick because she gets whiny and clingy for several days. I put her down for a nap at 1:30 and she slept to 5:30. When she woke, Allie was all smiles again with lots of energy. The down side is that she was not quick to fall asleep at her 8:30 bed time. Instead she fought sleeping until 10:30.

I tried rocking her to sleep which she fought so I laid her down. Once Allie continued to cry/fake sob Kelli went in but gave up to let her work out sleeping on her own around 10:00. I then went in when I heard hear playing with the mobile. Indeed she was standing and playing so I laid her down and rubbed her back for little bit. She started to close her eyes so I started to leave. Allie, thinking I was gone, stood up to play with the mobile some more, so I walked back over. Surprised to see me and knowing she was busted, Allie gave a disappointed “oh”, like the “oh” you give if someone said they were winning a race and tripped at the very end and lost the race….yeah that “oh”.

I just laid her back down and walked out quickly because I was holding in laughing from her perfectly expressed “oh”. Surprisingly she did stay down and was out rather shortly.