Beautiful Jeremiah ...

We've spent a fun few days with Jeremiah. He loves our little train table and gets to have it all to himself!
Having the train table all to oneself is a RARE thing at the Jones Junction. We told Jeremiah this several times! He loved playing with all of the "bells" and "whistles" around the tracks. As he plays, you can see his little mind trying to figure out all of the mechanics and electronics of each part of the train. He especially liked opening and shutting all of the gates and doors ...
We played all over the house. When we got "bored" we just moved to a different room!
It's a little bit cold in our basement playroom, so we put Jeremiah in his sleepers so that his feet wouldn't get cold ... he refuses to keep socks or shoes on!

And since it has been so wonderfully warm and pleasant the last few days, I took Jeremiah for a nice long walk to show him all of the neighborhood "haunts." We talked about the beautiful trees and the falling leaves and the wonder that God could make it all! Mostly, Jeremiah just listened.
Today, we are under a high wind advisory and we woke up this morning to NO POWER at about 6:15 a.m. Jeremiah woke up about an hour later and we fed him breakfast by flashlight! He didn't seem to mind one single bit. He especially likes our chocolate chip breakfast cookies!

It ended up being quite an unusual morning around here. We were scheduled to take care of children over at church this morning, received one call telling us it had been cancelled, but then 20 minutes later we got another call asking us to come. About two hours into our morning, the tornado sirens were sounding, so we had to round up all of the children and take them to the designated safe spot in the basement of the church. And then after the "all-clear" came, the mothers took their little ones home.

We brought Jeremiah home, fed him his lunch and put him down for a nap with the wind loudly howling and the house shaking! It was SO loud. Emily's mom has picked him up now and he is safely at their house for the next few days. Hopefully, we'll see Adam, Emily and Jeremiah this weekend sometime.

And speaking of the wind ... you should SEE Lake Michigan and the waves crashing over the pier out at Grand Haven! If you look on my sidebar under "These Tracks Lead to" and click on My Favorite Place, you can see what I'm talking about!