Here's the whole family not long before returning home from Japan in summer 2007

Tommy's blessing day at the chapel in Iwakuni. September 2006

 

Thomas Alan Pershing, born 29 Aug 2006 at 1:04 PM, weight 8 Pounds, 15 ounces, height 21 1/4 inches (normally you don't get 1/4 of an inch but I had to convert all the measurements from metric).

Sure am glad to meet ya,
Let me show you stuff that only big boys know....

Notebook paper makes a dandy stealth fighter,
And for fast getaways we'll take my Radio Flyer.
And there's indians in the woods, just off the porch out back,
And if the attack, I'll help you fight 'em with sticks for guns,
me and you, until we've won....
'Cause that's what brothers do.
Conferderate Railroad, 1998        

January 2006