April 15

Thursday, April 15, 2010

That morning, Collette and Puck took a walk to the library together. The winds were warm. After arrival, Puck enjoyed several copies of The Magic School Bus and Peter Spier’s works, before breaking for a snack of clementines and raisins outside. Under falling blossoms and shade trees in cool tickling breezes.

Puck took his nap on Collette’s bed that day, as a beginning to transition to a ‘big boy bed’. This first attempt was a success.

By afternoon, a cloud had come in. The windows were open to the wind and drone of the bumbles. And just as Collette and Puck sat on the front porch to read a book about hurricanes, the rain broke. Just a little bit of it. But enough for a brief downpour.

Then Puck’s bath while he and Collette watched a documentary on Collette’s laptop about David Tennant researching his family roots in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In the evening, Rose and Joe arrived for a movie night in the yellow-gold-greens and shadows of the early evening.

And still no baby Rye. Not yet.