I have just been blessed to share in the birth of a new grandchild, Simon George Gawlik, 7 pounds, 10 ounces, in Portland, Oregon, on September 1, 2007. My primary responsibility this week has been to take care of Owen Ray Gawlik, the two year old big brother. I have had lots of fun, but I also am EXHAUSTED! I realize more and more why God chose for us to have our children young. 😉

Owen and I spent many hours together reading stories, going to the park (he likes to swing for sometimes a half hour at a time, always calling “higher, Barb, higher” – my wrists were sore from pushing!), watching his favorite movie, “Toy Story,” at least 10 times, playing cars and skateboard, making masks out of paper bags and scaring each other, learning new songs (he is really good at “The Bear Went Over the Mountain”) and pretending. Very often he would say, “Silly Granna Barbara!” One day he picked up a little stuffed duck I brought him, and said, “Hi, duck. What’s your name?”

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