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so, we’re about to go down to watch the fireworks, and we parents are a bit nervous about how levi may react – maybe he’ll be very scared, and that might force us to leave right away, and that would be fine, but… etc. – so we decide to brief him on what he might hear and see, and tell him that it will probably be loud, but it is “okay”.

as we are preparing, he is asking tons of questions, rather extending prompts, about firecrackers and fireworks, and these other exciting new words we used, and he really wants to know where the firecrackers are, and wants to see them. I tell him that he probably won’t see firecrackers, but will just hear them, and that later we’d see fireworks in the sky. As I’m telling him this, a loud set of firecrackers goes off from some neighbor’s yard, and I say “there it is, that’s the firecracker sound” and I ask him if he could hear it. he was a little startled, and intoned to me in a solemn voice “it will be okay.”

indeed, it would. later we saw the fireworks, and he was scared, but within about 30 seconds seemed to come around and was starting to comment on the colors – it turned out to be a very nice little outing.