Ooh...

We shot fireworks last night. It was mostly tame stuff, sparklers and smoke balls, but we had a few noisy and sparky things too. Tory was brave enough to hold a sparkler. Ian was brave enough to watch Tory hold the sparkler from a safe distance. Abbie would only watch the sparklers from behind the corner, but when we lit a noisy firecracker she hid inside the house. Abbie was at least brave enough to watch the show from the upstairs window.

Later that night, Abbie was still terrified of the loud fireworks being shot by our neighbors. She could clearly hear the bangs from her bedroom. She believed that, because she could hear them, they could hurt her inside her bedroom. I told her that she was completely safe inside her bedroom, but she didn't believe me. Then I told her that I would put the fireworks in timeout if they hurt her, and that calmed her down.