Thunderstorms

Last night we got some pretty incredible thunderstorms. I absolutely love thunderstorms. They started around 8:30 and we turned the lights out and just lay in bed watching and listening.

After about an hour Chase woke up... not because the storm scared him, but because he hasn't been sleeping well lately (he's teething again) and the last few nights he's woken up several times. We let him cry for about 1/2 hour because he wasn't screaming like he was scared, just moaning and fussing. After 1/2 hour we said, "well there's no way he's going to be able to go back to sleep with the storms going on" so we went in and got him and brought him into bed with us. He wasn't afraid of the storms at all.... He was completely intrigued. Every time there was a huge flash of lightning or crack of thunder he would just stare in wonder. It was so amazing.

After the storms started calming down we put him back to bed and he went right to sleep. It is just amazing to me.... You would think the huge flashes of light and loud banging would scare a baby that doesn't have any idea what's going on... but he actually enjoyed it, too. It was so amazing to share that with him.

The storms lasted several hours. It was so cool. The Chicago area lost a lot of power last night and our internet went down but it was so worth it!