See How Much My Grandkids Have Grown
Picture of Trevor Kent with me during the last church sales held on 1st May 2007 at Good Shepherd Anglican Church, Lutong. Trevor turned 4 months 11 days on that day.
Picture of Nigel and Nicole enjoying wearing the hat I wore during Malaysia National Day 2006. Nigel will be 4 years old this 20th May whereas Nicole 3 years old on 27th August.My grandkids have grown up so fast and yet I didn't feel myself getting older! I believe I find so much happiness in having enjoyable times with them, for that reason time just passed by without me realizing it.
On fine weather, we would go outdoors and enjoy the beautiful surroundings with the flowers in swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, purple blue and the green plants planted in rustic clay pots covered with moss and mud.
Nicole loves the sight of flower buds and she'll pluck them and open the buds to see what's inside. She imagined that there are ants inside the flower buds and she'll catch them and showed me her imaginary ants in her empty palms! Actually she is scared of insects especially beetles. I tend to free those beetles that are still alive caught in a spider’s web and at the sight of what I am doing; Nigel and Nicole would run back to the house! They were afraid I would show them what I got! Nigel would get mad with me and said Mr. Spider has no food to eat! It seems that Nigel has some feelings of compassion towards other living things. :)
Whatsoever, Nigel and Nicole especially enjoy watering the plants because this gives them the opportunity to get wet and play in the pool of water! There are times we saw centipedes crawling away from the over-filled flowerpots and they would try to catch them. Now that, I said to them, is very dangerous because centipedes’ stings can be poisonous. They would look blanked face at me and wondered what I meant by that. Well, I know they will one day learn what is and not safe to the touch!
As for Trevor my youngest grandson, he is still too fragile to do anything like running or watering the plant, and thus could only just sit in his push pram sucking his fingers and watched what we adults are doing. I believe he has his own baby-world to enjoy. Beauty is seen through the eyes of little children. Don’t you agree?
For me, this moment was a life-changing experience. I thought I would enjoy lots of freedom when my children married, however it is not as I thought. I know at my age it is laborious to take care of young children and lots of stress in understanding and coming to terms with their young parents’ spats and argument but I thank God that I still have the strength, the wisdom and the capabilities to handle so many responsibilities. We all mold one another’s dreams. We all hold each other’s fragile hope in our hands. We all touch other’ hearts. There is not better time than right now to be happy.
~ Take spring when it comes, and rejoice. Take happiness when it comes, and rejoice. Take love when it comes, and rejoice. ~ Carl Ewald
Labels: Family, Fun, outdoors activities
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