weather scare

Tonight we had a very nice dinner at Uncle Denny's place, the first in his newly (mostly) finished home. I cooked a spaghetti meal in his brand new awesome kitchen and Granny and Gran joined us all. Dennis likes playing at Uncle Denny's house and he especially enjoyed tromping in the mud outside in his rain boots tonight.

We were almost home when he announced he needed to use the potty, so we stopped at a gas station only to find that theirs was out of order. Not wanting to ruin his perfect potty day, we let him water the grass out behind the station. And then we let him go inside and pick a prize for staying dry and clean all day. He chose donuts.

When we got home tonight, the weather siren sounded and David stepped to the door to see if he could hear what the spoken directions would be. He couldn't hear anything but very rough wind and immediately ordered all of us into the hallway. After I ducked into our room to turn on the tv to confirm a tornado in our area, I joined him and Dennis on their pile of mattresses and pillows in the hall. We tried to explain to Dennis what a tornado was, but he was so busy jumping on the mattress and "building a skyscraper" with the pillows that I don't know what he comprehended. Luckily it soon passed by without incident. Well, almost without incident... Dennis fell backward while jumping on the mattress and smacked the back of his head on the wall hard enough to dent the sheetrock. It scared me very badly but he was fine for the rest of the evening. I'm glad the scary times have passed.