Storm Chasin'

So, as you all may know (or not know...), Aidan wants to be a storm chaser when he grows up.  Now the thing is, he has a hard time with loud noises so the whole thunder thing gives us a bit of a setback.  Basically I've just had to remind him that if he wants to be storm chaser then he's going to have to LIKE thunder and get excited by it instead of scared.  So far I think it actually worked.

Anyways, the other day it was kind of storming off and on and when we thought it had passed we ran out to run some errands.  Well, the storm clouds returned and it started raining and when we got out to the car we noticed what looked a lot like a wall cloud.  Aidan assured us that this was, in fact, most definitely a wall cloud (he's the storm chaser, he would know).  So we kind of humored him and since it wasn't raining THAT hard (at least, not yet), we drove a bit out of our way and as far as he was concerned we were storm chasing.  Not even halfway home the bottom dropped out.  We literally couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of us, the wind was gusting really hard, it was lightning like crazy.  Aidan was thrilled to be out in a real live severe storm and kept talking about the wall cloud and telling us all kinds of weather stuff.  Scary drive but in the long run quite fun.

So now, whenever there's any hint of clouds in the sky Aidan thinks it's going to storm and he wants to go storm chasing.  He's so into it that he tried to convince us to buy him a video camera when we were at Best Buy on Tuesday.

I'm pretty sure that didn't have anything to do with the meltdown he had as we were checking out - a melt down that lasted like... 45 minutes total.  That was a painful meltdown with lots of injuries all around.  And whatever it was that set him off, seems likely to be the same thing that sparked my migraine less than 24 hours later.  Probably weather related as well.

Either way, the point of this whole thing is just that Aidan is still going strong on his plans to be a storm chaser.  He wants me to call a storm chaser and find out if he can ride with them on one of their storm chases... I told him they probably wouldn't let him... for insurance reasons of course.