The Streetpoet

This is the first day I’ve not had company in a month. My Gigi is on a plane right now flying back to GA. My twin and her husband are on a cruise that was gifted to them. My Peter is in class at CSUN, and I’m in a new house with our boys and starting a new school year.

We had a very full and wonderful summer! I will begin blogging where I left off and work my way forward because I want to share our summer with you and record it in sequence for me. That which pervades my memories and wraps me up in my “aloneness” is the LOVE of God. And I praise Him.

It seems that as Seth gets older the things he says are just as original and astonishing as ever, his perspective is still unique, but they are making more sense. 🙂

I overheard Seth say to Audrey when they were playing wedding and he was the Power Ranger groom: “I’m the flash that runs through the wedding!” (As his photographer mommy knows…it feels exactly like that sometimes!)

One day the poor boy had a headache and he told me: “Mommy, my head feels squeezed.”

Seth was suddenly very upset at the lunch table one day and he told me through his tears: “Mommy, there’s dog sweat on my cup!” …his cold drink had created condensation on the outside of his cup and he was instantly happy when I wiped it off.

Dear Aunt Brooke comes every week to teach the boys a science lesson and as she was leaving one day Seth sat down on the log to wait until she drove away. He wasn’t waving so I asked him what he was doing and he said, “I want to hear what her car says.”

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We’re not breaking from school because we’re having too much fun reading our Sonlight books and the boys are having a blast with Aunt Brooke teaching them hands on Science…but I will only occasionally blog this summer. When Peter is in school and I have late nights alone it’s nice to be able to blog. Now that he’s out for the summer we’re spending our evenings together as a family and soaking up every minute of it! I don’t want to be on the computer when he’s home, so my blogging pace will be slowed until CSUN resumes for the 09-10 school year.

My thanks to all of you who so graciously leave encouraging comments…and my love to my family so far away.

It’s hard to believe he’s four…he seems older than he really is. 🙂 Zachary is a very inquisitive little guy who wants to know about everything and can ask because he’s very articulate. My Seth loves to play with him which is a good thing because they’re cousins, only about seven months apart and great buddies.

He had a birthday the beginning of this month and his parents planned a wonderful day at the tidepools for all his little friends. The Lord blessed us with a beautiful day at the beach when it was cold and cloudy at home. We all enjoyed it so much and only left when the tide started rising and we became hungry for dinner.

Zachary, we love you! Happy Birthday little guy!

He is a blessing beyond words. Literally. I cannot find words to describe our Ian. He has a unique personality with a slowly growing vocabulary, and quickly growing independence, a strong will and a great big heart. He loves balls, balloons, bubbles, anything that goes, dogs, babies, his brothers, and he adores his daddy! If he’s upset at Mommy he cries for “Ma Daddy!”. 🙂 His word for yes is “Da” and he puts a hard “H” sound at the end of words like “rock” and “truck” and “lock” (his word for shut). I look forward to his vocabulary growing, and I love to hear him try out (and make up) new words!

I think he looks a lot like Jerome at two.

My prayer for him is that as he grows he will see his great need for Jesus, that he would be a blessing to all those in his life, and that his life will count for God’s kingdom. Thank you, Jesus, for entrusting him into our care and blessing us with his life!

Here are party photos with a big thanks to all who could come and celebrate Ian’s birthday with us!