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"A portrait of my younger child, once a week, every week, in 2016."

Roan:  enjoying the lovely weather before it takes a turn for the sweltering.  There is this fork of veins right underneath the skin on the bridge of his nose that looks like a perpetual bruise.  It's been that way since his birth.

Roan is getting more and more confident at walking!  He gives kisses on command (sometimes).  This morning during his nappie change, he grabbed his fresh diaper and put it between his legs.  One of his favorite things to do is to dive to an open lap top and wiggle his fingers at full speed over the keys to "type."

I can tell he is going to be a ham.  Groups of people give him energy!  At Mass, he stood in the pew and looked backwards, smiling at the little girls and offering them his plastic book toy.

I can imagine the kind of phone calls I will get from his school in five years.  "Roan stood on the desk and tap danced to cheer up his little classmate who was sad."  It's hard to say, though.  For all that he is cautious and not much for testing boundaries.