My Brother

Jotham's been talking about you lots lately. When we had his teachers over for his home visit they were asking about our families and I was talking about your and Jotham's cousins. Jotham stopped us and asked, "Mom, can I tell them about my brother?" It made my heart so happy that he wants to tell others about you, that you lived. I of course said yes and Jotham told his teachers, "I have a baby brother, but he died." His teachers (one of them at least) already knew about you and she asked Jotham if it made him sad that you died. He said "Yes, and shy".  A couple weeks after this Jotham had some friends over and he told his friend Jack, "Zephaniah is my brother". We wish so much that you were here with us. We had some family pictures taken last month and I made sure to have some that showed off the "Z" so that you were apart of our pictures too. You will always be part of our family. Love and miss you always.