Scary storms and Playground fun!

We've had an exciting week of playing at the playground and big scary storms! Every time it storms, Josh and Miri still talk about when the branch fell down. They just keep expecting it to happen again! Fortunately, we were missed the big tornadoes that came through our area last Friday. It was a scary storm though. We watched it come in, a big wall of black with all these tendrils hanging off, twisting around. But we have what we like to call a "Moses Effect" in our area, where most storms pass to the south or north of us. So as we were watching this one, a wind came from the south and blew the majority of it north of us. So we got a bunch of rain, but that was it. Another storm came in last night at bedtime, so they got to stay up late to watch it. My children have no fear of thunder or lightning. They are storm lovers!
We went to the baseball field Tuesday with Josh's T-ball set. He had a ball hitting and running the bases. He's got the concept down pretty well, I would say. Miri also like running the bases, and she would even go and hit the ball. But she would carefully line it up, then gently tap the ball off of the tee. Josh liked to go sit on the bench while she did this, and cheer for her, and she did the same for him after a while. So cute! Today we had a playdate in the park, which was extremely muddy. Miriam certainly likes to get messy!