Lucas Camilo

We’ve been quiet on the blog for a few weeks, but not for lack of activity.  It has been so helpful to have the showering of support from our family and friends related to our last post — here on the blog, in calls and conversations.  So before anything else, thank you.  I can’t find words to express how important your love and support is to us.

It was surprising how relieving it was to actually publish that last blog.  Saying it in writing — that this path for Ida will be unique and hard and beautiful in ways we hadn’t imagined — helped us acknowledge even to ourselves that this is real, and somehow that lightened the load a bit.

And the reality remains that right now Ida is doing great, and that she – like her brother – is a huge joy.  And over the last few weeks we’ve had some really fun times.  The first day of summer vacation Ida and I flew to Philadelphia to meet our friends’ Sha and Matt’s new baby, Tighe.  At home, Lucas and Burke got a lot of time together and celebrated Father’s Day in our backyard with the rest of the Stansbury crowd.  Lucas attended his first week of camp at the Children’s Playgarden, playing with geese and ducks and doing garden crafts and generally having a great time, despite the paucity of dinosaurs.

And then we took the whole family up to Nonna and Papa’s place on Whidbey Island to escape a little of the Seattle heat.  Lucas had a blast cruising up and down the newly constructed ramp and playing with his cousins, while Ida learned about reading (and eating) books.  Lucas got sick when we got back to Seattle on Monday, but he’s been an incredible trooper dealing with a cold and even a fever in the serious heat that we’re enduring.

On Lucas’s good days, we’ve spent a lot of time at the lake.  The water is so warm that Ida even agreed to go in last week.  And today we celebrated (Burke’s birthday) by getting out early for a walk and spin around the merry-go-round at Seward Park.  We are so very blessed by these two kids.