5.8

Yesterday, there was a 5.8 earthquake in Virginia that we felt all the way in New York.  Everything on my desk shook and many buildings in NY were evacuated as a precaution.  Back at the apartment, Elizabeth was home with the kids and all was ok there minus one ceramic cow that now has a broken leg - the apartment was shaking so much it fell off a shelf.   Eliazbeth said the kids were not scared at all and were laughing - she was putting Dylan to bed in one room when Ryan yelled "Lizabeth, you feel that shakin?"  - at first, Ryan thought that he did it because he "banged the frigidator door shut so hard but then it kept shakin everything" lol.  When I got home, he told me about his interesting day

He also told me "There was something very terrible.  In Virginja, there was a building and now it is just a pile of bricks and dirt - you are going to have to watch the weather I think"

Unrelated to the earthquake, we have had some pretty nice weather for the past few days (although that is supposed to end this weekend when we may get hit with a hurricane) so I have been meeting Elizabeth outside everyday and taking the kids to the park.  Sometimes they play so nicely together and it is so much fun to watch them try to impress each other. 

"We came in to the world as brother and brother; and now let's go hand in hand, not one before another" William Shakespeare

(I like this quote and it suits the picture although in the case of my boys, if they are doing something holding hands, it is probably because the each do not want the other to be first, haha)