Up All Rounds

Yesterday was Annmarie's 9 month well baby check up. She did pretty well. This was our third trip to the pediatrician in two weeks. She has been teething, yes -but, she also caught a 'bug' at her new child care center. The way I understand it, teething weakened her immune system. That coupled with the new facility, made for a rough couple of days. Wednesday and yesterday were the first two days with no fever. She still has green snot and a cough, but we can make it through that. When we went in for her well baby she didn't have a fever, but did have a red/puffy inner ear. So, this may be her first ear infection. On the good side, she is still at 20 pounds, but is now 29.5 inches tall. The pediatrician says she looks like she has all four front teeth lining up to drop. I don't know if I believe her. It's been two weeks worth of "teething" with no freaking teeth.
I decided to leave work a little early yesterday. No reason, just was ready to go. Which ended up being a good thing. As I got off of the 805 I noticed that all of the red lights were out. The ride from Point Loma to the house normally takes about 30 minutes. This time it took 1.5 hours. The ride was really slow, but (surprisingly) everyone was making 4 way stops at each intersection. So, it was pretty safe -even though we were bumper to bumper. I arrived home with baby to find we had no electricity at home. Later, I found out there was a mishap in Yuma, Arizona that took out Orange County, San Diego County, Yuma and Tijuana. (Side note: I didn't realize we were supplying Mexico with electricity.)
Here's where something NOTW happens. Just by the grace of God:
1) we two brand new cases of water
2) I had just filled up the gas in my car
3) baby water was on sale so I had 3 gallons of it
4) when Annmarie was a newborn, I bought a plug in flash light -which I had just charged up
5) Dad bought me a manual phone charger/flashlight that I always keep in my car. (Which can be used to power up anything that has a USB adapter.)
6) We have a gas stove
7) I have a car lighter/wall plug converter
8) My jacked up phone may not have been able to call out, but I was able to keep in touch with everyone via Internet and Facebook.
9) Lori sucks at mowing the grass.
So, even though it was too hot to sleep upstairs, we were able to camp out downstairs. So, we set it up and had a slumber party. I didn't even have to break into my disaster kit. Baby girl had her first candle light dinner. Which, I really thought I did good with until this morning when I saw all the mess. She slept pretty well in the travel crib...even though it's barely longer than her. Our power came back on in the middle of the night. Baby girl woke up after the power came on, so I moved her upstairs and turned on the air conditioner. Parts of San Diego were still not on at 2pm today. This morning we started the process of undoing everything...resetting the house alarm, restarting modems, scrubbing the floor around the not-so-high chair, and trying to get TV service back. TV was the last thing to come back.
The only thing I wish I would have had with me that we didn't have is a gun. I understand that looting happens when people have no power...alarms...phones...I know the danger is higher living so close to Tijuana. I also know that this threat is lessened by the fact that the guy to our left just had AstroTurf installed and the guy to our right has a several thousand dollar grill set up -unguarded. Logic prevails, who do you rob/loot? The guy with 2 foot high weed like grass....or the guy that has money to waste on things like Astro Turf and nice grills? So, I felt safer!
Up All Rounds is a Navy term meaning all guns are firing with "no apparent damage, no apparent causalities". We are Up All Rounds -again!