Earthquake survivors

Addie has a page in her baby book where I record all her "firsts" - first smile, first bath, first road trip, etc. There wasn't exactly a line for this, so today I added one in that said "12 weeks - first earthquake."

I was feeding her last night around 11 (about an hour later than usual - trying to make this whole "fall back" thing, which clearly isn't in a baby's realm of understanding, a little easier for her) when I heard what I thought was an airplane flying very close to our house. Then everything started shaking. I immediately realized that it was an earthquake - there had been one in Pryor, Okla., early on Saturday morning so I'd been hearing about it all day. And I had "survived" another earthquake about a year ago. I think that one was close to Norman, Okla., and I was at work when it hit. I was sitting in my office with two of my co-workers when the building started shaking - now, this is a historic building (circa 1927) and my office is located in the cement-encased basement. So it was some serious shaking. It was relatively quick. The one last night was not.

We have a twin bed in Addie's room, where I was sitting to feed her, and it our house was shaking so hard it was banging against the walls. The antique dresser in her room was banging the walls, too, and everything on it was moving. The shaking kept increasing, probably for the span of about of a minute, but it felt like forever. About the time I was about to yell for Jordan, and realized I should probably get up and find someplace safer for myself and my baby than the middle of her room, it stopped. I could feel tremors for another couple of minutes. Jordan appeared in the doorway wide-eyed. He had been in the living room and said he could see the walls swaying and that the light fixtures we all shaking.

After debriefing for a few minutes, we were over it. Our dog, Izzy, was not. While I was finishing feeding Addie, who was completely unfazed by her first earthquake, Izzy came in to check on me and the baby - seriously, I had to show her the baby before she would back off - and then tried to climb on the bed with us. She stayed right next to me until I got in bed, and then immediately jumped in and layed right next to me. Even this morning she was still a bit shaken and clingy. Poor thing.

On the news this morning we heard the quake was a 5.6. The biggest in Oklahoma's history. I can't wait to be the super obnoxious mom who tells Addie, "when I was just a month pregnant, we had the biggest blizzard in our history ... then I was 9 months pregnant during the hottest summer ever ... then we had the biggest earthquake ever when you were three months old." She'll love it. :)