Vinton has been evacuated. Palo has been evacuated, parts of Cedar Rapids have been evacuated (where Jenny works), parts of Waterloo have been evacuated (where Dennis works), and tonight Dennis spent the whole evening bagging sand for the bottom portion of our own neighborhood.

Jenny participated in moving 160 people in her building where she works into a different building from 3pm to 10pm. Wow.

Needless to say, we're all very tired.

Watch the news on the flood here:

http://www.kcrg.com/

We've had two interesting episodes in the last few weeks dealing with one or both of the boys:

1) Brandon "accidentally" (he says) peed all over the bathroom. At first he denied it, then someone else did it, then it was an accident, finally he fessed up. It was a mess, and he had to help clean it up after timeout which he found to be "gross Mommy". When I first walked into the bathroom - bare foot - and realized what was going on, after some words with Bradon, he did the following: Put his head down, started to walk away, and said "Let me know when I can come out of timeout".

2) I walked into Brandon peeing into the toilet, with Nathan's hand in the stream. Needless to say, I think they both now understand why that is not a good idea, and won't be doing it again.

GROSS!