There are some guys here today removing a big stump from our yard along the side of the house. They are running chainsaws and a wood shredder, etc. They've been working on it a couple of hours now (It's a huge/multi-trunk stump). Tasha is just beside herself. Even inside all the noise is pretty loud. She keeps crowding around my legs and laying her head on me and trembling, looking terrified.

Sometimes the guys will be shouting out over the sound of the machinery or there will be a particularly loud sound and her whole little body shudders. Tommy is just sleeping on through it all, but poor Tasha is just traumatized . She keeps looking up at me when I stop working for a minute with a pleading look that looks exactly like "Mommy, make it stop."

Poor baby.