A crowd gathered outside a Princess Street home last night to pay 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, with a banquet of their favourite foods.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.”She added: “Miracle loved a party. We have all these family and friends here to have a dinner. He would have been overwhelmed to see everyone here like this and having a good time.”Listing off the different meals prepared that day in the family home, she said: “And of course we have cake. My son loved cake, even if it wasn’t his birthday.”The gathering inside and outside of the house on Princess Street, where the Swans 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 some, the image of the boy’s face, flanked by angels’ wings, came with the motto “Miracles Come From God”.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 the house on Princess Street while his mother, Linda, Miracle’s bereaved godmother, took comfort indoors with the Swan family.“They were always together,” Mrs Swan recalled. “Normally if Markus was here, he’d go right upstairs with Miracle.”Mr Swan pointed out pictures of his son, which fill the house, speaking softly of the things Miracle had enjoyed.With the house hot from cooking on an already hot day, he apologised and said he found it too difficult to talk.“It feels so airless,” Mr Swan said. “Right now, I just can’t say much.”Surrounded by trays of home-cooked food, the Swans and their extended family gathered outside with people of the neighbourhood as evening fell. AJ the Little Gombey entertained children in a yard nearby.Members of the Bento, Butterfield, Cameron, Harford, Ible, Johnson, Knight, Lewis, Lindo, Looby, Ming, Robertson and Raynor families were among those who thronged the sidewalk.The Swans’ youngest is survived by Malisa, 24; Stanwon, 12, and Stanlisha, five. Mr Swan’s children, twins Keasha and Theresa Richardson, also attended. Mr Swan also has a son, Javon Richardson.Asked what he recalled best of his younger brother, Stanwon said immediately: “Haircuts and football.”“He used to want to go with his brother to the barbershop every weekend,” Mrs Swan said.Looking at a picture of a small boy in a Manchester United uniform, Stanwon added: “We used to play football together. He watched football, at times, with me.”As families lined up for barbecued food and Spanish rice, Mrs Swan held up her one-year-old grandson, Zan’I, dressed in a pair of Miracle’s shorts and his T-shirt.“Miracle is still here with us,” she said. “He’ll always be here with us.”