This article appears in Capital City Parent April 2015.
About the cover – May 2015
Audio By Carbonatix
Cover photo by Ginny Lee is of Jakobi Ikerionwu, son of Jon and Colleen Ikerionwu of Springfield. The photo was taken in Washington Park when “Kobi” was two. He is four years old now, about to become a big brother of twin boys.
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