Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Elder Brother Update

So, the Elder Brother has been out six months as of yesterday. Thankfully we can email back and forth, and I get a message from him every Monday (which is convenient and calming for the worry-wort in me). This week he sent me a couple of pictures, which (by some miracle) ended up on my iPhone. So, I figured I'd share: Those look like s'mores, only there's no chocolate? It really makes me happy to see that Brother is still his same goofy self!
Monsoon, I'm assuming, since he's on the Yucatan peninsula and all. This pic must have been before the swine flu "epidemic" (don't even get me started...) because they stopped wearing ties after that.

I miss him so much! :( I can't wait 'til Christmas to talk to him again. He did a recording at six months to give us an update and it was fantastic to hear his voice. It trips me out to realize that my little brother--the one who used to lay in his crib making silly noises just to entertain himself, and the one that I thought I had broken when the umbilical cord remnant fell off while I was changing his diaper--is a man now. He's still a 19 year old boy, of course, but he is becoming the man he is meant to be, and when he gets home in 18 more months he will be a man. He is such a good kid with a kind heart. He is everyone's friend, and his absence is tangible whenever our family is together.

Te amo, Hermanito! (Sorry, but you'll always be my hermanito, even though you were taller than me a long time ago).

2 comments:

Ashlee Garn said...

LOVE IT! Now explain to me why they stopped wearing ties?? Best way to make smores is with those cookies that have the chocolate coating on the bottom and are a graham like cookie! SOOO yummy! Love the rain...sometimes wish we had it like that here :)

Anonymous said...

So, they stopped wearing ties in the Mexico missions because, apparently, some of the missionaries were using their ties as hankerchiefs (gross), and people thought that was contributing to the spreading of swine flu.