Joa: Fourth Year

Joa's Fourth Year:
August 2002-August 2003


Joa celebrated his fourth birthday at Davis' Farmland. His cake was a shark.

Denise & Kali also threw a birthday party at Sudbury Valley


Joa got a great new set of wheels for his birthday.

Here are some photos from the fall:

In December we went to California to spend the holidays with Grandma & Grandpa Terry

And in January we traveled to Oregon for Mormor's wedding

Joa celebrated his 4 1/2 birthday (2/21/03) with friends in a one-horse open sleigh ride through the woods


Springtime found us climbing ladders,	riding an elephant	at the zoo,	and bundling up for Davis' Farmland

That summer we took a big trip to Denmark & Iceland
Copenhagen statue	Copenhagen harbor		With family in Tivoli	Tivoli
	Dungeon entrance	Castle attire	Legoland entrance	In Legoland
Feeding sheep with Aunt Tove	Riding horses at Aunt Tove's house	Icelandic volcano	Hiking in Iceland
			Black sand lava beach in Iceland

And a smaller trip to Martha's Vineyard

The Summer Day
by Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?


back to the third year			on to the fifth year