Musings at Altitude

In the hundreds of pictures that are taken and the millions of moments that occur, only a very few pictures capture the real excitement, the real joy, the real meaning of life.  This is one of them:

We’ve enjoyed having our daughter and granddaughter around the house this week (our oldest daughter and the little one’s mother took this picture).  With all the web technology available today that allows us to watch near real time as she grows, there’s nothing quite like holding her in our arms and seeing up close her personality developing!

Today, they go back home though, and at least for a while, we’ll be back to those precious moments on web cams or the hundreds of pictures shared constantly on the internet.  That will hold us over till the next time we get to spoil her, but it won’t be the same.  She may very well be walking by then.  She’ll probably be saying those first words with a limited but very funny vocabulary.  And she will most likely have more rhythm than me by then, which wouldn’t take much, although she’s getting close with the clapping that she’s doing today!

It’s fun to watch them grow up…all of them…including the new parents. 

I hope they too cherish every one of these special moments!