For the Fenty family, calm amid the storm

Adrian Fenty’s reputation as a demanding, decisive leader extends about as far as the now-guarded entrance to his Crestwood home. Beyond the front door, the District’s mayor-elect is husband and dad: His children rebuff his calls for calm, his wife deftly returns his jests.

“Guys, come here right now,” Fenty said Saturday afternoon as his spry twin 6-year-old boys, Matthew and Andrew, played tackle football on the lower level of their home, on a nondescript but peaceful street two blocks east of Rock Creek Park. “Do you know how to say ‘excuse me?’ ”