Who's Afraid of Thunder?

Benedict is!!

  We had a (late summer-early autumn) thunderstorm this morning and poor Benedict was very clingy to me.  I must have stepped on him a dozen times, but he does not care as long as he can be that close to me. 

 Salvatore has another (change in the weather related) cough, runny nose and now a fever, but he was still fascinated with this rain and thunder.  Another example of how normal (and sometimes annoying) something is to us, but how cool it is to see it in a different light-through the eyes of your child.  This was Valentina's first official thunderstorm.  Contrary to the picture, she was giddy with delight over the rain and wind.