Hard to believe, but four years have passed in the wink of an eye!! Today my grandson is four years old. How can that be? How can I even be so old as to have a grandson? How do the minutes turn into hours turn into days turn into weeks, months, and even years so quickly?? That is why it is so important to savor each minute...to not worry about tomorrow...but to celebrate today...today!! So, today I celebrate Tripp! He is the best grandson in the whole world because he is mine. We developed a bond early on as there were plenty of days when he was just a baby that I would get to pick him up from the sitter and keep him by myself until Joey or Stacey could get by to get him after work. Now, he's Debbie's heart and he knows it, but when he wants something "fixed" he knows to come to Poppa. I'm also his resident "wrestling dummy" so we climb up in the bed and he commences to jumping on me until he gets tired of the "pounding" he gives me. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I never knew my maternal grandfather as he died when my mom was a young girl and my paternal grandfather died when I was only 3. The only memory of him that I have for some reason is that he took me outside one night and he showed me the moon and told me a story about the "man in the moon." Funny what you remember, but I do remember him holding me that night out on his back porch and telling me that story.
Tripp, regardless of his age, will have so many more memories because of technology..more than anything else. He'll have the hundreds of pictures, videos, and yes...even blog entries. I look forward to many more memories and many more Happy Birthdays. Poppa loves you Tripp. Happy Birthday!
