Earthquakes and Hurricanes

So...this last week within a few days of each other we had both an earthquake and a hurricane.
Cute story from the earthquake.
As the house started shaking I was inside with Mr Music and Mr Perfect and the other boys were out on the trampoline. Immediately Mr Music called out, "STOP THAT BOYS!" We both thought for a second that maybe they had come in and were jumping up and down hard enough to shake the house. A split second after it started I realized what was going on and tried to explain it to Mr Music. The three of us sat and listened to things rattle for a few moments after the shaking had stopped and then we went outside to see how the other boys were. I was especially concerned because Mr Prince is paranoid about weather and natural disasters. They hadn't noticed anything. They were too busy having fun jumping on the trampoline. HA!
But then a few days later we prepared for Hurricane Irene.
We gathered things inside and waited. I knew from the reports we would get the hardest part of the storm while the boys slept. For that I was grateful. But the entire day before it rained! Mr Music went outside in the rain for quite a while. I kept asking him to come inside and he refused. When it was finally raining too hard for him to stay outside he came in sopping wet and told me. "Mom, I kept singing 'rain rain go away come again another day' but I don't think it was listening." Oh how sweet! He knows how scared Mr Prince is of bad weather and wanted to protect his little brother from the rain. Precious!