Annalena is three days older than Sylvan, and, like Sylvan, she enjoys using her words. Annalena and Sylvan sat side-by-side on the heater in the library lobby, paging through the Danielle Steele novels they’d grabbed off the “Free Book Exchange” rack. Words are words. Here, Annalena enjoys the parachute at our last Birth to Three meeting; that’s her Mom, Shelly, smiling behind her.
When five and a half inches of rain inundated New York early last week, my Mom walked out her front door and took this photo of the neighbor’s house. This house was flooded back in the late eighties, too, when our friends, the Freilers, lived there. The
Tenmmile River is on the left in the photo, blithely overflowing its banks. This time, my parents didn’t have much time to become anxious; the river rose quickly, flooding houses in Dover before folks had time to respond. My parents’ house has been spared again, but it might be time to move to higher ground.
Sylvan’s cousin, Nicholas, who will be one in June, got a Burley bike trailer for his ten-month birthday! Not until we saw the photo of this super-cutie enjoying his new wheels did we realize that Sylvan is on the cover of the tag that comes with Burley trailers.