Three

Friends and family gathered today to celebrate Thumper's third birthday. It's wonderful to have so many people who will come to our home and participate in these moments with us, and to see conversations bloom and mutate and migrate from room to room. To watch kids and cousins playing together. To see how things have changed and how things have stayed the same.

While he's not quite up to J-H's level, here's Thumper thoroughly enjoying his new guitar and improvising a couple of songs for your listening pleasure:

Thumper's Work

The boy got a camera for his birthday. I deleted a whole bunch of completely black or completely white ones, though he might object that I didn't understand his thematic nuances. Here are some of what were left: