July 20, 2003

The things we do for love.

-- Drive back and forth to Boston twice in six days.
-- Decorate with an “Elmo” theme and even wear an Elmo party hat.
-- Bake an eggless, milkless, butterless chocolate cake from scratch.
-- Replace everything in an extra bedroom with wall to wall mattresses.
-- Remove everything breakable below any surface less than four feet from the floor.
-- Shop shop shop for toys toys toys and books books books and size 24-month clothes clothes clothes.
-- Load up on Cheerios and Gerber Fruit Wagon Wheels and watermelon.

My grandson Alexander’s first birthday was yesterday.
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His grandfather said it well:


To Alexander at One (19 July 2003)

From an open, partly-outlined book, you’ve come now to a full year of filling the first pages: learning you, learning those who made you and love you, learning how beyond you is a world to take in, learning how you can make them work, learning how your own parts work -- this arm, this leg, these fingers, eyes, ears – learning how sounds range and begin to have sense, learning how you get and how you give, learning you have your own meaning and that it’s important, learning how warm is love.
What a lot of distance you’ve gone, how many blank pages you’ve filled and begun to lay the basic plot for all the pages to follow in the story of you. palex2.jpg
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  1. Betsy Devine on 21 Jul 2003

    What a great party that sounds like--hugs to Alexander and to you!

  2. Kate S. on 22 Jul 2003

    What a fountain of love you provide, Grandma. Happy, happy birthday, Alexander!
    What a lucky boy to be surrounded by so many loving family and folk and Elmo, too.