Our Little Valentine

[Michele]

...almost. She started out on Valentine's Day but actually came the next evening. Our first Great.

Lila Anne
02-15-23
7lbs 8oz
19 3/4 in

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings. Psalm 17:8

[80zephyr]

Congratulations!! Wow. A great grandchild. I have 7 grand kids,all less than 7 years old. I doubt I'll see great grandchildren.

Mark

[phillygirl]

She is so yummy!!

[Newman]

Outstanding!

By the way, my mother's birthday is on Valentine's Day. We just celebrated her 100th.

And there's some suspicion, without doing any careful research, that her real birthday is February 13th, but it was her mom's decision to move it over a day.

Just sayion' ....

Congratulations!

[Lady Marva]

Congrats!

[daveman]

What a doll! How precious.

[Adam]

She is so yummy!!

I love children! They taste just like chicken!

[scott]

I love children! They taste just like chicken!

They shit all over the place like chickens too.

[Michele]

Our second great-grand, this time a boy. His was a bit of a traumatic birth ending in a very quick cesarean. Mom and baby are healthy and mom is healing nicely with the help of all her family.

Carson Matthew
04-27-23
7lbs 8oz
20 1/2 in

[Celeste Chalfonte]

Our second great-grand, this time a boy. His was a bit of a traumatic birth ending in a very quick cesarean. Mom and baby are healthy and mom is healing nicely with the help of all her family.

Carson Matthew
04-27-23
7lbs 8oz
20 1/2 in

How can we be old enough to have great-grandchildren?

[phillygirl]

How can we be old enough to have great-grandchildren?

How can I be old enough to be friends with people that have great grandchildren? I’m still having a hard time with my friends and family being grandparents!!

[Frostbit]

OK, since this thread is derailed with talk of "great" relatives and the reminder of our own ancient status I found something interesting at my great nieces wedding last summer. My nieces and nephews in their 40's and 50's call Joyce and me Aunt J and Unc or versions there of. The greats, once I got their names down would call us Jim and Joyce. Kinda weird in a way.

[phillygirl]

OK, since this thread is derailed with talk of "great" relatives and the reminder of our own ancient status I found something interesting at my great nieces wedding last summer. My nieces and nephews in their 40's and 50's call Joyce and me Aunt J and Unc or versions there of. The greats, once I got their names down would call us Jim and Joyce. Kinda weird in a way.

I blame their parents. In my family we always used aunt and uncle. My sister’s husbands family does not. Once my bil called our great uncle Phil. Uncle Phil didn’t let it slide. He immediately retorted “it’s Uncle Phil to you”. My bil will refer to me as simply my first name to the kids. I don’t like that. Luckily the kids all call me Aunt. Even their friends call me Aunt. I realized that even when I introduce myself to the kifpds parents, such as at my nieces graduation, I use Aunt. My neighbors’ kids, who are in their twenties and married call me Aunt. Some of my coworkers kids call me Miss and first name. I like a little formality from kids. Even if they’re now adults. It’s how I was raised.

[Michele]

How can we be old enough to have great-grandchildren?

I know. Although I feel I'm old enough to have little great-grands. It's really my son and daughter who are now grandparents that make me feel old.

We are having a lot of fun with these two little ones. Lila and her mom and dad are coming over for Memorial Day weekend. My daughter is staying home so that means we'll have Lila to ourselves. We're already starting to plan where their first family vacation will be with all of us. I'm thinking of a beach somewhere.

[Frostbit]

I blame their parents. In my family we always used aunt and uncle. My sister’s husbands family does not. Once my bil called our great uncle Phil. Uncle Phil didn’t let it slide. He immediately retorted “it’s Uncle Phil to you”. My bil will refer to me as simply my first name to the kids. I don’t like that. Luckily the kids all call me Aunt. Even their friends call me Aunt. I realized that even when I introduce myself to the kifpds parents, such as at my nieces graduation, I use Aunt. My neighbors’ kids, who are in their twenties and married call me Aunt. Some of my coworkers kids call me Miss and first name. I like a little formality from kids. Even if they’re now adults. It’s how I was raised.

When I flew back for an Iggles game with my nephew he had a grouping of tickets and took two clients of his ad agency and a partner. They all called me Uncle Jimmy. When I asked one of them later on the side why he was calling me uncle he said out of respect and Josh told us to never piss you off.

I laughed my ass off.