Weather Diary
The sun was not out this morning as Stephen, 7, got ready for school. That fact worried him greatly. Thunder clapped and the television satellite went out. "Can we drive to school? I don't want to get hit by lightning," asked a concerned Stephen. "Mom, did you know lightning is hotter than the sun?"
(Wet Boy, a before picture)
As we hurried to get to school, rain crashed on our roof. Stephen and I (the mother) walk every morning to Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center, which is located about a block away from our house. We like the walk. We get to talk about insects, baseball and the weather. But Mother Nature cramped our style this morning. We decided to drive to school. That didn't keep us dry. We seemed to be driving under a cloud. We ran out of the car wearing our rain coats.
Still, we got drenched in a few yards.
"Are you guys walkers?" asked one teacher at the sight of us.
"We drove today," I answered.
When we got to the lockers near Ms. Gracie's first grade, Stephen got shy. His shirt was wet. His shorts were wet.
"Stephen is Wet Boy!" joked some classmates.
Stephen didn't want to be Wet Boy.
Thankfully, classmates Vishal and Ryn walked up just then -- seconds before the bell rang.
(Vishal pictured right on a drier day. Picture from Alice Carlson website.)
They were wet too. With a little urging from Vishal's dad, Stephen didn't mind being part of the Wet Group. We are crossing our fingers it doesn't rain tomorrow morning.
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