Cloud Boy

Up in the clouds live the cloud children.  They play all day with the wind and the rain.  They go swimming when it rains and paint pictures with the rainbow colors afterwards.  Father Sun and Mother Moon take care of them.  One day, all the cloud children were playing ball, when the ball rolled right through a hole in the clouds and fell down below.  There was one little boy named Noah who ran off to c+hase it.  When he saw it fall through the clouds, he knealt down besides the hole it fell through and looked.  He saw something he had never seen before.

What Noah saw was a beautiful land with mountains, trees, rivers, and oceans.  He saw animals of all kinds and he saw people.  He thought it was the most beautiful place he had ever seen.
Everyday he returned to that hole in the clouds to watch what was happening on this beautiful land for he wanted to go there.

One day as he was watching he saw four people.  He saw a mother with brown hair that everyone called Tracy or sometimes they called her Teacher Tracy for she had lots of little children around her.
He saw a father named Josh, and two little boys, one older one named Elijah and one littler one named Jonah.  He saw them hiking, playing in the river, and mostly he saw them playing with balls too just like Noah loved to do.  Noah wanted to go and play with them so badly.

So that very evening, Noah went to Father Sun and Mother Moon and told him that he wanted to go down to the beautiful land and be with this family.  The Sun and Moon were not surprised for there had been many cloud children who had wished that before and had indeed left the clouds to live on this land that the Sun and Moon called Earth.

Mother Moon explained to Noah that to travel to the land called Earth, he would get there through a dark wet place inside his new mother Tracy where he would grow a new body.  After that he would travel through a rainbow bridge to the bright land of Earth where his family would welcome him with lots of love.

Noah was very excited and he immediately said yes and began his journey.   When he got inside of Tracy he grew slowly and as his new body was growing he noticed that some parts were not growing as his old body had been.  His lips felt funny and he could not move them very well.  He began to grow slower and slower and his hands were bent instead of straight and also hard to use.  His ears were not in the right place and he could not hear very well.

Noah really wanted to travel to Earth and be part of this family.  He really wanted to play with Elijah and Jonah and all those little children in the river, so he keep working really hard to grow his body and keep his heart beating strongly.

When his body was done growing and it was almost time for him to travel over the rainbow bridge, his body became too weak and he just was not strong enough to come out and play, so he said goodbye to this new body and went back to the clouds to live with Mother Moon and Father Sun again.  He was very sad and his family was very sad too.  Tracy, Josh, Elijah, and Jonah missed Noah so much and wished that he was able to play with them.

Noah told Mother Moon and Father Sun that one day he might want to come back in a different body that wasn't so hard to grow in, but for now he would stay playing ball in the clouds and watch his Earth family from above.  And indeed, every day, he looks through that hole and watches them and whenever his family misses him, they can wave to him from below.