Hurricane Irene / Calvin's Birthday

The day after Calvin's 1st birthday hurricane Irene hit the NJ/NY area. First the shockwaves of the first earthquake to hit the east coast in over a century and then a hurricane - Calvin definitely knows how to celebrate his birthday...Luckily our area of NJ didn't really have any serious flooding, just some uprooted trees and power outages. There was a tree across the street from us that got uprooted from someone's lawn. I'm surprised (but grateful) that with all of the trees across the street from our house from the park none of them fell on our house.


Since we lost power we headed over to my sister's house in Bridgewater since they still had power. We were there for about 3 days. Calvin spent most of that time playing with his cousin Maddy.

Or, I guess in their case, playing around each other.

One afteroon we even took the 2 of them out to the little playground in my sister's complex. They had little baby swings we were able to put them in. Although Maddy seemed to enjoy it much more than Calvin.

On Tuesday, Calvin's birthday, we started out the day at my sister's. Maddy was sent off to her other grandma and grandpa's house. So it was just me and Calvin together in the empty house.

By the evening time, power was restored to the area around our house, so we headed back. There was another brief power outage after we arrived home, but thankfully that only lasted for about an hour before power was restored for good. Even with all of the power outages, we still managed to celebrate Calvin's birthday with a little ice cream cake.

Let's hope that not all of Calvin's birthdays bring natural disasters...