生日派队那一天

靖恒第一次参加生日派队，我和建明都很兴奋（注：是我和建明）。生日派队很简单，没有娱乐节目，很随性，好像平时带他去教堂玩那样，是我们预料到的。不同的是，多了好多食物。我想，靖恒吃了大概9块点心吧。刚开始，他似乎很生疏，不太愿意玩（奇怪，又不是第一次来这里）。后来才像平时那样到处跑。真拿他没办法，要回家了，才不舍得回家。

It is Ethan's first birthday party - no, not his birthday, of course. Someone's celebrating his third birthday, and being a regular of the playgroup, Ethan was invited (parents included). So we went. And it was nice. It's just like another day of the playgroup, but getting the balloons up and the foods out were enough to keep the parents and the helpers of the birthday boy busy. Ethan must have eaten nine or so pieces of biscuits, rolls and pies. Without guessing, it must have been a happy day for him. What I am worried about now is the next time we go to the playgroup, how I am going to explain why there isn't so much food any more.

傍晚，我去准备晚餐。不知道是不是因为建明就在旁边（虽然没有跟他玩，但也是惯性地看着电脑，打着字），还是说睡得饱（午觉睡了大约3个小时），吃得爽（看前一段落），靖恒竟然没有跟我到厨房去，自己静静地玩玩具。这是他接起来的火车‘铁’路，还挺像样吧。

I went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Surprisingly, Ethan was not following me like usual. Maybe because Jianming was nearby typing away. Or maybe because he's had enough sleep in the afternoon and was not so grouchy, and he also had some fantastic food earlier (at the birthday party) and the memory (and taste) lingered. When I came back to the room, I saw a train track (of some sort) and him playing with it. Not a train track for this world, but might work for some other worlds perhaps. Still, something to be commended.