Lucas Camilo

The sun is out in Washington DC today and it is warm.  Warm enough, in fact, that we wrapped Lucas in one just one extra layer and took him and his travel vent outside to do some good ol’ fashioned (or in Lucas’s case, first ever) porch sitting.  And it wasn’t just a typical January bright-and-crisp sunny day; rather, the DC sun beat down on our faces and heated us so much that Burke had to lie down on the porch to nap in the sun, while Krista and Lucas sat in the porch rocking chair and closed their eyes to soak in the warmth.

Not a lot has changed since we wrote our last post, but the continued love we receive, plus the January sun, have lifted our spirits some.  Lucas celebrated his 5 month birthday yesterday with a visit from his Tio Sha and Sha’s mom Mary.  Mary gave Lucas a gorgeous quilt she made for him which has bright colored animals, lush shades of green, butterflies and waves and leaves sown into the quilting, and a sun bursting up from behind gray clouds in the middle of it all.  If fabric could speak this quilt would be shouting with joy.  It’s pretty amazing.

This morning we marked our two-month anniversary home.  Our friends Paola and Simon came over and made us brunch, and Lucas got to snuggle up with Paola and her growing belly.  Lucas has been trying to make noises lately, and we think we heard him whispering some advice about the outside world to the little guy inside her.

We woke up this morning to the sweet sound of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice on the radio laying out some of his more radical ideas in the famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech at the Riverside Church.  One quote resonated beyond its political meaning and onto our personal lives, the one about recommitting to the long and difficult, but “beautiful struggle” for a new world.  In this day of commemoration for Dr. King we think about building on his inspiration, combining politics and personal in one complicated but beautiful struggle.