organized chaos

**(edited to add this note: since I posted this the other day, I’ve snapped some nice pics of our flooded river and park and they are available to view on my Flickr link down on the side bar)***

Here in North Eastern Kansas, we’re a little wet. In fact, I’ve read that there’s a nice little strip of rain all the way down the central United States. So we’re not alone.

The Cuteness has outgrown his tub bath. Not really, but he kicks so hard in that thing, he’s going to propel himself under the water one of these times. So I upgraded him to the round bath seat. He did pretty well.

If you look closely at the water by his leg on the left side, you’ll notice some white goo. Yeah, he spit up a little. Socrates, when he was a wee babe, threw up so bad all the time. Once in the bath, he threw up so much we had to let the water out and start all the way over. Here, I just swished the water around a little and called it good.

I think he spotted his vomit.

So this looks like a peaceful, yet wet Kansas day, right?

This is what you would find if you ventured down that front sidewalk a few more feet and took a closer look.

And looking up the street, you might start to think a ring floaty would be a good idea.

And looking the other way, you might actually go inside, hop on Ebay, and buy a really good raft. Because what you don’t see in this photo is the river down the street that seems really safe behind the nice levee system our city has in place. But this much rain? I might actually have to canoe to work tonight, cause you know Walmart won’t tolerate me calling in.

For now, I think I’ll teach The Cuteness how to kick his legs and swim.