Yesterday Camilla had her five year old "school" shots and Mary Emma got her first round of baby shots. I was really impressed with Camilla that she didn't jump off the table at the first prick, but patiently allowed the LPN to give her three more with hardly a complaint. However as we waited the mandatory 20 minutes in case of an adverse reaction, her temper flared. "I don't every want to get any more shots, ever again!!!! OK MOMMY!!!" Poor thing, she has one more to go in six months, but then she's done till she's 11. Well, I explained to her that without the shots she could die (with Jacob in combat zones, we talk about dying all the time), and she decided she didn't want to die. Afterwards, we went for the traditional ice cream, that I remember getting after my school shots. Jacob was hoping I was suggesting the half hour trip into Manhattan to go to Dairy Queen, but no such luck, I opted for the five minutes away Sonic and the dollar menu. I gave Camilla the day off from school expecting her to be lying on the couch in agony, but I was quite mistaken:
As you can see, the wind was blowing quite fiercely yesterday, and continued to get stronger as the afternoon progressed. With Camilla not doing school, I decided to actually spend some time downstairs with my sewing machine. Ironically all three kids were downstairs with me, when the phone rang, Hyrum wasn't quick enough to get it for me, and it rang again. "Honestly Jacob," I thought, "can it be that urgent." Well, the tornado alerts were going off at Ft. Riley and the Commanding General was releasing the entire post to go home, or to get in the bunkers. I wasn't too uptight, I hadn't heard the alarm here, but he did finally convince me to go outside and look at the sky.
Well to me it looked like a pretty standard stormy sky, but from his perspective at the top of the hill it was a picture perfect midwestern thunderstorm sky. Oh well we didn't get any tornadoes, just a few shingles in our backyard from our neighbor's roof, and some hail, but the threat was real. And so I guess if polio, measles, mumps, and rubella, etc. won't kill ya, tornados might. Welcome to Kansas!
3 comments:
Hahah what a story! Wow, tornados, this may sound crazy but I always thought it would be cool to see a tornado. Good for Camilla and being so brave!
that is so cool, that sky looks awesome. i totally want to visit you during tornado season:)
I can't believe you were actually inside to get the phone call - I can imagine you outside twirling around in the wind, all the while thinking that it was a glorious storm that was brewing. We're so blissfully naive when it comes to storms. Do be careful, would ya?!
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