Word of the Day: rankle So, remember how I said yesterday that I was sooo happy it stopped raining? I didn't know about Tropical Storm Erin, which hit in the wee hours of this morning. Our ten day forecast calls for rain every day. Now, have I done something to call the fury of the heavens down on me? I mean, really, this is ridiculous. In other news, Patrick's favorite song to sing is the Happy Birthday song. But instead of singing 'Happy birthday to you' [I guess because he doesn't get to concept of birthday at all], he sings 'Happy birthday cake for ______' [I guess because he totally gets the concept of cake]. So his song is a repetition of cakes for someone, generally 'Mommy', 'Daddy', 'Patricks', and 'Grama', although sometimes be elaborates into Cartoon Network cartoon characters as well, and, less often, his aunt and cousins. It's so hilaaaaaaarious, and there's even a little arm-swinging dance to go along with it. I can't remember when he first started doing it...wait, no, wait, yeah, it was around my birthday, so around the end of April. I had bought myself a cake and I told him at the store that we had to wait till my birthday to eat it. Now all cakes are birthday cakes, I think, becausae every time we pass the bakery at Wal-Mart, he squeals 'Birthday cake!' and pantomimes [with sound effects] eating the whole lot. Just that.