Sunday, July 13, 2008

The Zero Years

Our daughter-in-law, Marta, and her sister, Alexis, both celebrate "zero year" birthdays this year, so it was reason to have a party.

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The party was at Ned & Marta's house and was somewhat reminiscent of our early married days, when all parties that we had were full of babies. These were four of the youngest.

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Some of the Lawsuit crowd are on their second children already. The "older" kids took advantage of the band set-up to show off their musical prowess.

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And everybody of every age got a chance to paint a ceramic tile, which Ned is going to have fired and then use to decorate the new planter box that he built.

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There was plenty to eat--a table and a counter filled with salads or salad fixings...

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...along with a huge juice bar and, later, Ned and his friend K.C. barbequed chicken.

The grown-ups performed, the kids mimicked them. Marta did a rendition of Fever, which she used to sing at Lawsuit shows (see Video of the Day).

Former Lawsuit percussionist, Dan (on Twitter as "Oaktowner") took every opportunity to give me a hard time for my "tragedies" of this week (the blown fuse and the accidentally turned-off light switch). He's been following the saga on Twitter, apparently.

It was a lovely afternoon and I was home in time to feed the dogs. Happy birthday, Marta and Alexis!

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