Freckled

Freckles are a badge of summertime around here. Daniel has gotten freckles for the first time this year. There aren't very many but I think they are darling.

Next comes Nate. Goofy Nate with his typical-seven-year-old goofy smile. He has a few more freckles than Danny but they are still just a sweet sprinkling across his nose and cheeks.

Joel has a few more than Nate. He loves playing outside, maybe the most of all my boys, so I guess it's only natural that he should get more sun than they do.

Seth, however, is the clear winner in the freckle category. I think the fact that he spent an entire week outside at Boy Scout camp last week might have contributed to the abundance of  "clusters of concentrated melanin" this year. He is covered!

Aren't freckles the cutest? I love my freckled boys. As John Greenleaf Whittier would say, "Outward sunshine, inward joy."
(from "The Barefoot Boy". Read it. If you have little boys like me, you will love it!)