Lights Out!

We started the day off at 5:30 today with the power going out. I actually started at 5:00 with Jonah waking up. I laid with him in his bed and he fell back to sleep. Once I got back in bed, I could hear the wind outside. Right when I was about to fall asleep again, the power went out. I know this because the humming sound of all three sound machines stopped instantaneously. My first thought was the power is out...my next thought was how quickly are the boys going to wake up without the humming of their sound machines. It took Liam two minutes. He started crying and screaming...of course with the power out, the night light was out as well. He was scared! I went into his room and he said, "Eyes...can't see mama!" Poor thing. I brought him to bed thinking that he may fall back to sleep. About five minutes later, I hear Jonah crying. So in ten minutes after the lights were out, I had all three boys with me in bed. I tried to convince them it was still early and to go back to sleep, but of course, that didn't work.

Needless to say we were up at 6:15 ready for day. I built a fire, made breakfast on the stove (since we have gas, I could cook eggs), and we got dressed by flashlight. I told the boys it was like camping out! Liam didn't quite get the concept of the power being out and asked me every few minutes to turn the lights on. Of course, they came back on once I pulled the cord on the electric garage door so I could manually open it to take Ethan to school. Ethan said, "You should have pulled the cord earlier so the lights would come back on."

Another big event for the day was Jonah gave his pacifier to the dentist. He was all set to do it and be a "big boy." I put them in a bag and he basically just tossed them to the dentist. To celebrate this passage to big boyhood, we got a donut at the buskin bakery. He has asked for them a few times so far. Hopefully tonight will not be too much of a disaster!