it’s all coming back to me now.
summertime in the neighborhood. the best backyard that stretched forever and sloped towards the creek… where i’d send GI Joe downstream in search of mermaids.
my brothers ran around with waterguns and sound effects. my friends, all boys, did too. and then there was me, the only girl in the neighborhood. included in makebelieve; invited by relation only. certainly not based on qualifications.
they had sound effects of great magnitude. i had nothing but laughter and sunshine and spinning myself dizzy under the clothesline. every now and then i’d dodge the boys stray water bullets as i swung higher and higher on the swingset, feet in the clouds.
7am this morning found us both with bed head. him with a mission of legos in mind as with every morning (“i built it with my mind” he says about his vehicular creations) he came up for air and a bite of oatmeal saying “hey momma, i built you a heart.” the perfect combination of all things boy, near and dear to momma’s heart.
he came home today all boy. full of sound effects. it feels like sunshine in my eyes, this growing up. it’s blinding and so painfully beautiful that i love how it feels on my face, how it makes my eyes water, how it makes my heart swoon.
he’s full of sound effects today. sound effects that i don’t even know how to spell. they are full of spit and emotion and 100% enjoyed imagination. and he wants me to play and i’ve got nothing but laughter.
and so that’s what i give to him.
June 3, 2009 at 8:08 pm
beautiful. perfectly described.
yay
June 3, 2009 at 9:09 pm
wow.
I followed a link from some forgotten place, to here several days ago – and I’m so glad that I did.
This is so beautiful. Thank you.
June 3, 2009 at 9:10 pm
June 3, 2009 at 9:46 pm
What lovely, lovely sentiments you have described the essence of little boys so sweetly and the love mama’s have for these precious little ones : )
*Love* the little lego heart, we have lots of sound effects going on over here too!
June 3, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I love boys — they’re so simple in the best ways, really. Your photos are gorgeous, as always.
June 4, 2009 at 11:06 am
I love this. I love his lego heart.
June 5, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Hmmm, this is absolutely lovely!
June 5, 2009 at 11:52 pm
i know.
ain’t it grand?
June 6, 2009 at 6:51 am
Took GKgirls invitation to visit one of her blogroll blogs… chose yours at random (and because it has such a lovely name), and am captured by your words and the world of little-boy-life. My son is 23, and these reminders are sweet beyond words. You treasure your moments with him. Wise, wise woman!
So glad to have found your blog!
June 6, 2009 at 11:31 am
makes me teary, the truth of it…full of spit