The Streetpoet

You guys have been so patient to see these! I would have been finished editing your pictures by now, and almost was last week, when I discovered that my PhotoShop settings had been changed and I’ve had to start again from the beginning. I’m learning as I go, obviously, and I thank you for the opportunity to work for such wonderful people as yourselves!

I’m more than half way done again, so your category will be up soon on my website, but since you’ve waited this long I want you to see some of my favorites from your day:

Saturday afternoon while Ian was napping we went down to the Jones’ to meet their newest addition who had arrived the night before and was having a sunbath in daddy’s arms on the lawn. I went in to talk to the new mama and after a few minutes I heard Jerome crying really hard and ran out to see him standing in the middle of the yard, crying on Daddy and looking otherwise fine. Apparently Peter and Jerome had been sitting together on the grass enjoying the day and the neighbors when Peter asked Jerome to go check on Ian. Jerome had jumped up to run and tripped over Peter’s foot. It was an accident and he didn’t fall very hard or far, and he stopped crying pretty quickly but needed a nap later and was a little weepy even after the Motrin kicked in. For the past two days he hasn’t used his right arm or hand much at all, and can’t extend it. He would hold it carefully still beside him and even cradle it with his left hand. It’s also a little swollen. Yikes. I hurt just looking at the poor guy. So this evening Tim and Peter took him in for x-rays and he comes home with a cast on his arm! He’s got the first break in this family, poor little guy. Later this week we’re going to have a Pediatric Orthopedic surgeon look at him since it’s a “radial head compression fracture” near his growth plate. So much for handwriting this week, or the next. 😉

I am very grateful it wasn’t any worse, however, and Jerome’s a little trooper!

At the breakfast table this morning Seth and I were sitting across from each other with the morning sun glaring on the table between us when he said to me “There are movies in my eyes! Are there worlds in us? When we swallow the world our tummies will be fat!” And he said all of that without so much as a breath in between so I didn’t have time to think of an answer but just laughed with him, and he seemed satisfied with that.

He’s playing out in the livingroom right now with a box of cars, a glove, and my hairband and he comes in every couple minutes to show me something. Once he came in and said “I’m a rolling king!” 🙂

These pics were taken the middle of July, and Rebekah Noel is due now in about three weeks!