Birthday party & earthquake reprecussions (Aug. 24)

First of all, we survived yesterday’s earthquake.  Apparently many people throughout the city had to evacuate, including the White House, Congress, the Pentagon, and DC public schools.  But Burke was on his bike and felt nothing, Lucas was napping and felt nothing, and Krista ran frantically back and forth between Lucas, his vent, and the door frame for the 30 seconds the quake lasted.  The upshot for us was that the roads were clogged, so we canceled a drive to Virginia and instead went for an afternoon walk in a new section Rock Creek Park.  We found kids riding horses, and Lucas was very excited to meet his first extra-large mammals up close. (Apparently the flamingos, red-ruffed lemurs, gorillas and orangutans at the zoo all knew the earthquake was coming before it hit, but the horses seemed totally unfazed an hour after the quake.)

Anyway, the bigger news in Lucas’ life is that over the weekend we threw a real birthday party for him.  Our upstairs neighbors let us use their space, and we got out the streamers, balloons, and birthday candles to do Lucas’s second birthday right.  He was a great sport and showed his “two” fingers when anyone asked how old he was.  We brought a big pile of his favorite books, and then he got more books as presents, so he spent much of the party happily geeking out on animal stories.  But we also forced him through the candle-stuck-in-tasty-food ritual (for Lucas, a banana), and sang him the birthday song.  He did really well through it all, and it wasn’t until we helped him blow out the candle and everyone clapped that he lost it.  Lucas apparently still hates clapping, and he let it be known with huge, puddley tears.  But once that was over and he got to shove the banana in his mouth (while reading books) he was back to his party animal self.

Thanks everyone for the blog/email/party-going birthday wishes.  Indeed all three of us had a great second birthday!

24th August, 2011 This post was written by admin

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Margo

August 25th, 2011 at 12:38 am    

Happy belated birthday Lucas! I think of you a lot.

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