Hay, Graceful...

I had an envelope come in the mail today from New Zealand. I knew what it was and was so excited I could hardly stand it. It's the picture that JustHay let me choose from her incredible Flickr photostream in honor of her 30th birthday. It's called "Ritual", and shows her baby's curls and towel bib around her neck.

It already means so much to me. She will hang next to Georgia O'Keefe's apples in my kitchen as soon as I find the perfect frame. Her curls remind me of Wednesday's, and it was Winston who wore so many bibs when he was a small little one. That's him in his newest sweater vest, one day into his 3rd ever haircut.

After I opened the envelope from Hay, Winston looked up at me and said, "Mommy, what does graceful mean?" So, Hay, this is for you. Happy Birthday!

4 dictionary results for: graceful
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
grace·ful
–adjective
characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME; see grace, -ful] —Related forms
grace·ful·ly, adverb
grace·ful·ness, noun
—Synonyms limber, lithe, lissome.

(Edit: This isn't the answer I gave him. After thinking about it I told him graceful meant a person who moves or dances very beautifully without being clumsy or rough. He also knows what sustenance, ferocious, mysterious, and paleontologist mean! He keeps me on my toes....)