reflections of a grandfather (w/pic)

I would like to share the following with you..

Last weekend my wife and I were babysitting Ethan at my daughter's home in Bethlehem PA. By the way, they are hoping to move to San Diego this June and were on the West Coast job hunting. We would move to San Diego, too, to help with Ethan, as they both have to work.

Anyhow I always sit next to Ethan while he is eating and I read to him. He loves the book Corduroy Bear which is about a little bear who has a lost button on his coverall. Anyhow, for some reason I pronounced the word button as boo-tone which is the way a friend of mine who is French pronounces it. And every time when I say boo-tone he cracks up..

So, we are in the living room and he points to the chair where I normally sit to read to him and I sit down and he happily runs over to the other side of the room and brings Corduroy Bear with him..

"Do you want Grandpa to read Corduroy Bear to you?"

He points to his chest which means that he wants to do it..

"Ethan will read to Grandpa?" and he points to his chest again in affirmation.

Ethan, then, reaches into my shirt pocket and pulls out my half-glasses that I put on the tip of my nose when I read to him and puts them on his nose...and of course the glasses are enormous on him and I am helping him hold the book and the glasses as he talks a ton of gibberish to me as he looks at the book and then at me and then he turns the page and more gibberish and then very clearly he says boo-tone and points to Corduroy Bear's missing button and then he cracks up, hysterically laughing and says boo-tone, again and again, with his wonderful, infectious laugh.

He was very clearly reading the story to me and I believe sharing his love for me and the enjoyment he has when we read to him and acknowledging my love for him by doing that. It was just so, so beautiful and I wanted to share the story with my lovely TNBC family. It was the beauty in my day and in thinking about it today it remains the beauty today, as well, so maybe if you are having a particularly rough day you can think back to another day that had some beauty in it?

with my love to all,

Steve

I will see him Sunday..so excited..

warmly,

Steve

Such a precious gift so very adorable he remind.'s me of my nephew with grat similarity,so very cute my nephew was born on August 31st and I had my surgery on October 3rd of 07 and soon after the sugga began,but one thing I have to mention is after my diagnosis he truely kept me moving forward. I am his godmother and take that very serouslly even though he has me wrape around the finger,enjoy each and every moment of each day with your precious grandchild as I do mine with my nephew,I feel as if he came into my live at just the exact moment when I needed the inspiration to go on, they say things happen at certain times for a reason and I truely believe that.You are a God send to all of us you are truely unremarkable, like you send your message Find the Beauty in Each And Every Day,I am so trying to and I thinhkI am,but I have to say I know you do with your Grandson.

Thank You for every thing,

Special Hugs

Denise

 

The link worked just like you said, click it and see the picture.

 

What a cutie-pie!!!!  Your family is so lucky to have you - and so are we!

 

Have a great day.

 

Linda

 

Ethan is growing so fast!  I hope you all will be so happy together in San Diego.  What a beautiful city to spend time and be with Ethan.

Donna