Earthquake

Did you feel it this morning at 4:37am? We did!! It is the first earthquake that Joe and I have experienced and it was weird! We woke up at the same time and I asked Joe "why is our bed shaking?" We lay there for a second or two, and though neither one of said anything we were both thinking it was the cats that were causing it. But really, two cats could not produce that kind of shaking! Joe jumped out of bed (and told me later the floor was shaking too) to look for the cause and that is when I heard Alex saying "what is shaking my bed?" Alex later told us he thought Jenna was throwing a tantrum (she's on the bottom bunk and he's on top). Then he thought it was Joe giving him a back rub. When those two didn't pan out, that's when he asked why his bed was shaking. Joe told him it was nothing and to go back to sleep. But we knew it something! Logic told us it was an earthquake, but hey, we live in Illinois not California, so it didn't make sense - especially coming out of deep sleep. We thought a big truck driving in front of the house - no truck noise. We thought wind - absolute stillness outside. We thought foundation slipping - nah. Joe went on-line and came back a few minutes later to confirm that it was, indeed, an earthquake. It was hard to go back to sleep but we finally did. When we woke up for the day we told Alex he had felt an earthquake. In his little life he has experienced a tornado (two years ago) and now an earthquake. While both of these events have happened in Jenna's lifetime also, she doesn't remember the tornado and slept right through the earthquake. Joe felt the after-shock this morning around 10:15am or so. Jenna and I were in the car and didn't feel it. Alex was at preschool and also did not feel it. I have to say, it was a weird crazy feeling; frightening only in the respect that it jarred us awake and we had no clue what was going on. Mother Nature - she keeps us on our toes!