happy birthday stewart tod!

Twenty seven years ago this morning, the best and most rewarding adventure of my life began. Stewart arrived "sunny side up" and that's the way he's navigated the world since then. Stew has been a really great big brother to three very unique and strong "little" sisters. As a kid, he loved Legos, collecting bugs, riding his bike and gardening. 

But reading was his sanctuary. Even as a crawler he loved books. He would snuggle in our laps and listen, asking for the story to be read "again" when we got to the end. When he learned to read on his own he was off on a rampage. The biggest discipline problem we had with him growing up was getting him to turn his light out at night. Seriously. We would check on the kids before we went to bed, and Stewart would have turned his light back on to read "one more chapter".  

All that reading filled him up with a broad understanding of the world and the people in it. His passion for politics, justice and education always makes for interesting conversation. We suspect that there are kids in his high school classroom that he might be infecting with that same curiosity about the world. We know that he and Dawn have full lives out in Oregon, but we sure do miss them. Happy birthday Sweet Baboo! We love you.