Their first experiences

My DGS1 was obsessed with lamp posts and windmills. Any walk along the road had to involve hugging each street light. If this could be timed as they were coming on he was overjoyed. All 6 GCs were so cute as toddlers, but those days are gone, the oldest now being 13.

One of my GSs was obsessed with JCBs. He had to be driven past the place where they were parked on the way back from nursery - to 'say goodnight to the diggers'. His father had been equally absorbed by cranes.

Our youngest GC is just 17. A gorgeous girl whom I adore. My lovely Missus says that I've been in love with her from the day I first saw her!
She has just got her first boyfriend, so I told her to enjoy but to be CAREFUL!!
They met at School/College beginning of Term,but only just started dating.
I always said to her that he has to pass the Gramps test (and I might be a little bit jealous!)

When my DH younger sisters first started dating he said he wanted a sight of the boys bank statement and a reference from their parish priest! Older brothers always protective of little sisters.

I just love my GS's delight in almost everything. It is wonderful to see how fascinated he is in whatever we take him to see. At 2 and 9 months everything is wonderful, especially his Grandad who is his BF and is expected to join in everything. He has been to many things people think are too old for him but has enjoyed them at his own level. Wonderful.

anno A friend's little daughter used to go with him sometimes to site meetings at his civil engineering projects. She loved it. At nursery school one day a small boy was enthusing over a photograph of "a twactor". She corrected him scornfully "That's not a tractor, it's a JCB"

DGS is obsessed by all forms of transport. SIL is always fiddling with his car. DGS has a book with pictures of car parts, spark plugs, distributor etc. He can name each part and tell you where it goes.

He's 4

When DGD1 was about 2/3 she went with mr.g. every night to feed the horses in the field around the corner from our house mr.g. used to pop into the pub for a swift half in the beer garden one night he was longer than usual and when he came back he said he had met a pal and they got talking so he decided to have 2 x halves,no gramps "you had three" spouts up DGD1 remember you went to the bar twice and your pal went once,"who ever taught this child to count" was the response ???? they are so close but he has always called her "super grass" from that day on.

I can still remember taking DS1 (now 43 and wouldn't thank me for this) to the small Spar up the road; they had just got the "new" trolleys into which you could harness a baby. He was about 8 months old; his little face just lit up at the bright lights and the colours, and he chuckled all the way round. The woman at the till was also an army wife, and gave him a chocolate mouse. So every time we approached the till after that he would beam and say "Ankyou" hopefully. (Sorry, just remembered the last bit)

Shades of Sandy Denny...who knows where the time goes?