Uncle Jace

Jace (a younger variety of the new graduate) and the adoring nephew.

P was beyond-words-excited when he received Uncle Jace's highschool graduation announcement. Aside from his adoration of mailboxes and new papers in general, his ecstatic bouncing was mostly due to his undying devotion to this, his youngest Uncle. And, honestly, the guy deserves wee leg hopping. He is fantastic fun with P....

True to P form, this birthed a project. (Seems like everything births a project for P. I have grand plans for homeschool activities, fun forays into P's fave subjects... they're never needed. The kid creates his own, ideally suited to his learning level, but that's another post, for another night, hopefully before my rock project pics rot...) After organizing (and re-organizing) the included pictures and reading (and re-reading) the announcement, the Little Man went through a whole process of using stickers, the few family pics he's scrounged and some unknown algorithm to properly display his newly received photographs. Except for one. This shot he carried in his hot little hand, everywhere, for the remainder of the day. Including the live theater performance on 42nd St (the Butterfly Garden at the New Vic, which was gorgeous. The metamorphosis of the butterfly was performed by two dancers on an interactive digital screen, wordless, with music. P was invited on stage, to be chased by digital caterpillars. If photography had been allowed in the theater I could now post a picture entitled "sublime happiness, featuring P." ) All through this, the Little Man clung to Uncle Jace's face. He also whispered to the picture, informing me that Uncle Jace was answering! Hehe.

Sure, sure, some may say a shrine to a distant Uncle could be construed as creepy :) But I consistently find the kid's familial devotions (despite so much distance) sweet as sugar. And, honestly, if you had an Uncle as amazing as Jace, you'd probably build a photo shrine too ;)

So here's a shout out to the great Uncle Jace, a highschool graduate as of... tomorrow!