Friends and family gathered at a Princess Street home this evening to pay their respects, one year after toddler Stanwondae (Miracle) Swan tragically lost his life.Parents Leasser and Stanley Swan opened their doors to the neighbourhood in a celebration of Miracle.Mrs Swan said: “This is no funeral service. Everybody in my family loves to cook, so we have come together with all sorts of good things to eat, and later on, when we have the vigil with the candles at 9pm, that can be our time to get emotional about it.”The gathering inside and outside of 23 Princess Street, where the family have lived for 19 years, brought together more than a dozen families — many of whom wore T-shirts emblazoned with Miracle's face — to mark the year since the three-year-old drowned at Ferry Reach.On June 27, 2010, the Swans joined hundreds of others to watch the Powerboat Races along Kindley Field Road, when Miracle and his friend Markus Eve happened to wander into the water. Markus's life was saved.Markus Eve was outside this house on Princess Street while his mother, Linda, Miracle's godmother, took comfort inside with the Swan family.“They were always together,” Mrs Swan recalled. “Normally if Markus was here, he's go right upstairs with Miracle.”Surrounded by trays of home-cooked food, the Swans and their extended family gathered with people of the neighbourhood. AJ the Little Gombey entertained children in a yard nearby.The Swans' youngest is survived by Malisa, 24; Stanwon, 12, and Stanlisha, five. Mr Swan's children, twins Keasha and Theresa Richardson, also attended. He also has a son, Javon.Mrs Swan held up her grandson, Zan'I, who wore Miracle's shorts and T-shirt.“Miracle is still here with us,” she said. “He'll always be here with us.”