En Fuego San Diego - Insanity Edition

Day #2 of En Fuego San Diego. Updates? Well.. no clue.

Thankfully the winds by us have really died down, but according to the news, they are still blowing in other areas. As Matt Lauer said on the Today Show this morning, "it looks like Armageddon". The sky is still all smokey and the air quality is horrific. I'm dying from some fresh clean air here.

We are all going a bit stir crazy at this point also. Thankfully, Islands restaurant was open today so we were able to escape the house for lunch. And like a trusty friend, Barnes and Noble was there to greet us with open arms. air conditioning and a train table to entertain Lucas for 20 minutes. Oh, and an entertainment purchase of the Transformers movie ... "for Lucas".

For those of you judging us and thinking this movie is a little too old for a 3.5 year old, I have a few things to say to you. #1 You try and entertain a 3.5 year old inside a stuffy house for 2+ days and #2, my kid doesn't really watch movies.. he plays along with them...

Yes, that is a plastic bucket on his head, and a water bottle that is doubling as a "blaster".. yea, he's a strange one.

En Fuego San Diego

File this under the category of "life can not get anymore complicated"... If you don't live in Southern California you may not realize the severity of what is going on here in San Diego. We currently have 8 various fires around the county. The county is blanketed in smoke and white ash is falling like Christmas snow. And yes, I'm freaking out. And sitting here with my legs crossed.

This pic was taken around 7 am this morning - the smoke in the distance..

For the first time in about a week, I'm really hoping to not go into labor. To get to my hospital from here, we have to pretty much drive through an evacuation zone.. my Dr's office is in an evacuation zone... and they recently announced that our "back up emergency" hospital has been closed to all non-life threatening emergencies. Which, believe you me, if I'm about to have a baby, it will be a life threatening emergency if they try to turn me away. Life threatening for them.. hahaha.

Deep breath.. oh wait, no deep breath.. cough cough..

This picture was taken at about 10 am

We were sitting here debating jumping on the freeway and getting the hell out of Dodge, but the issue with San Diego is that we have 2 freeways that head north out of the county.. and one is currently shut down. So.

This pic was taken at about 1:30 PM - looking west from our house.

Yea. Hmm.. go into labor at home or in a car stuck in the middle of a non-moving traffic? Hey - at least here at home we have yummy cupcakes.

Make-it-at-home Sprinkles cupcakes from Williams-Sonoma..

YUMYUMYUMYUMYUM

Southern Cali is burning, but Princess B is holding steady

4 years ago to the day, San Diego went ablaze with wildfires.. I remember it distinctly, as I was 21 weeks pregnant and we had just found out that we were having a baby boy. The city was declared to be in a state of emergency, and actually shut down completely. Today, the combination of the Santa Ana winds and mixed with the dried out brush of east county to once again cause acres and acres to go up in flames around San Diego county. While the actual fire is no where near us, the wind brings the smoke straight west - right to the coast.

And no, it has not caused me to go into labor.

Neither has spicy food, walking, stressful situations such as the fact that we realized TODAY that our over priced infant car seat that we kept so nicely boxed up since Lucas grew out of it 3-years ago is a broken piece of shit and oh, yea, if you drive an Audi there is approximately ONE style car seat that works best in your car, and oh yea its $200 and no we don't have any in stock at the moment, but maybe in 2-3 weeks? WHAT?! I don't have 2-3 weeks! I'm hoping I don't have one week! And if I AM still in this predicament next week at this time, we may have to resort to having sex!

So yea, still pregnant.

lalala