Keal Family Letter, June 2007

Hello Friends and Family!

Tirah is now in week 31 of 40. The baby is roughly a foot long, and
weighs about 3 and 1/2 pounds. The baby is capable of opening it's
eyes. It has hair on it's head, and toenails on it's toes. It's
brain is capable of memory, learning, and processing sights and sounds.

Thea and Cirdan have really enjoyed the monthly visits by our
midwife, Robin, and they can't wait to hear the "Baby's Heart Beep!"
as they call it.

Cirdan will be turning 3 on the 13th of this month! He tends to be
covered in "owies" lately, because he's a rough-and-tumble little boy.

Thea has lately become fascinated with "what's in our bodies."
Periodically she will ask me, "Papa, what is in our bodies?" and I
will then tell her as much as I can remember from Anatomy classes in
school. She already knows about the heart, the lungs, the brain,
the stomach, bones, muscles, nerves, drums (eardrums), and even
things like tendons. It's really fun to watch her little brain soak
up this information and try to process it.

We had our American Flag out for Memorial Day, and the kid's
mispronunciation of the name of the flag was very profound: They
were trying to say "It's an American Flag!" but it came out: "It's A
Miracle Flag!"

There's a robin's nest up in the rafters of our back porch, and last
month we watched four baby robins hatch, and grow, and be fed, and
finally fledge (fly from their nest.) Me and the kids actually got
to observe 3 of the 4 baby robins leave the nest and take their very
first flight. The whole process is so common and yet still so
miraculous to watch. Tirah and I found ourselves sitting on the back
porch just watching the robin's nest, like it was the most
fascinating TV show! I actually have some video footage of Thea and
Cirdan following a little baby robin around the yard, who had just
flown from the nest. Because they had grown up on our porch, they
weren't really afraid of us. One of these days, I'll get around to
posting that video for y'all to see.

We've been house hunting this past month, and we found a wonderful
little rental house in Virginville (about 4 miles away from
Lenhartsville), that would be just perfect for us. It's a three bed-
room house, with a fully enclosed-insulated-finished back porch,
which would be perfect for my studio. It's got a large yard, and
it's in a nice quite little town. And it's a price that we can just
afford.
We sent in our application, so now we just have to wait, and hope
that they like us! We're very much hoping that we'll get it,
because we really like it! And if we do get it, we could be moving
this month!

We celebrate our 6th anniversary at the end of this month! We're in
the middle of our second round of Marriage Support Group, which is
very much fun, and very enlightening and useful.

And that's about all for now!

We hope you are all doing well.

Have a great day!

- Solomon, Tirah, Thea, Cirdan, and Baby Keal.