Grandpas

 

This babe is super lucky to have to amazing men as grandfathers. Sadly, only one will have an earthly presence it its life. Eric's dad, Steve (Cardinals hat, above), passed away some years ago and although I never had the pleasure, I know in my heart he must have been quite something because he is partly responsible for the intelligent, funny, caring man I married (who in turn, will be partly responsible for how this little bean turns out!). Wherever Grandpa Steve is, he is surely strutting around like a the proudest rooster in the coop. You see at this very moment he has FOUR grandbabies in the hopper! Eric's little sister is four months pregnant with her second, his brother Brad's wife Laura is due any day now with twins and this little one makes four (five in all). Luckily, all of Steve's children have loads of stories to share about him. He will definitely hold a fabled place in all of his grandchildren's lives. 

The other grandfather is one of the coolest, sweetest, awesomest rockers I know. And I don't mean in the Ozzy Osbourne sense. We've been in our home for nine years and we finally made a purchase that we should have made long ago... we finally bought a rocking chair - for Grandpa Jim. As I sit in the chair I imagine my dad in it, with a Scotch after Christmas dinner, with coffee on the morning of our Memorial Day festivities, and with a baby, his first grandchild, any day of the year.

What a lucky babe this will be!