Tornado (warning)!

It was going so well...two naps in the crib today (one for two hours!) and a nice bedtime routine ending with Josie fast asleep by 7:30pm.

And then the Emergency Broadcast System kicked in:

A tornado warning.
For Cook County, IL.
For Humboldt Park, no less.

The storm was moving directly towards us at 50 miles an hour and the warning was in effect until 8:15pm. We were warned to move away from windows and to get down to ground level. We briefly weighed our options...sleeping baby, approaching tornado. Sigh. We woke Josie up and hunkered down in our stairwell with a neighbor until the worst of the storm had passed. Turns out we didn't get hit with a full tornado, but it's now over three hours later and it's still thundering away with loads of lightening.

And no, Josie didn't go back to sleep very easily, although once she was asleep she stayed asleep even through the super loud rounds of thunder and audible lightening strikes. This shot shows her in front of the weather report looking alarmed (we took this after returning from the stairwell).

Now she can add tornado to her growing list of "nature's fury" she has experienced, which already includes one earthquake.