Be quiet, God!

We had a pretty nasty thunderstorm come through right before naptime today... usually no big deal, but Brett has recently become really afraid of the thunder. It could make for a long summer seeing as how we get a thunderstorm at least a few days a week all summer long! Anyway, to help ease this fear a few weeks ago, we tried telling him that God was bowling. The problem with this is that Brett's never been bowling before, so this made no sense to him at all. One day, I was scolding Brett for zooming his cars too loudly up and down the foyer while Kate was napping, and it occurred to me that I could use that as my example... everytime it thunders, it's just God zooming his cars on the wood floor. Brett bought into it! So, this afternoon before nap, I was trying to convince him to go potty, etc. but he was so hung up on this thunderstorm. I reminded him about God zooming cars and he looked at me very seriously and said, "Be quiet, God! You have to play cars quiet!" That was the end of it... nap time went off without a hitch!