We were at Niagara Falls, NY, and I was watching Baby Rose (our first grandchild) while Mark and Terri were off seeing the sites... Lou took the picture. It appears, Baby Rose was amusing herself with something... I not really paying attention because I am smiling at the camera... We had a lovely time at Niagara Falls... what an awesome place to see... when you are overlooking the Falls... you can feel the power of all that water flowing over the rocks and falling down into the Niagara River. But, then again, we always had a lovely time while at Niagara Falls... it is an awe-inspiring, breathtaking place to be... I confess, I was really nervous when I was watching Rose... I was not use to being around children... having never had any... not that I didn't want children... it was just a fact of my life ... At any rate, as I remember this mis-adventure, Lou had wondered off to find Mark and Terri... it was time for us to move onto another venue at the Falls. Rose was fiddling with a piece of paper while I was pushing her around in the stroller... All of a sudden, Rose had the paper in her mouth, and really going at it... at that time, she didn't have any teeth, so she was gumming it... slobber all over the place, and then, she ate a small piece of the paper... I was horrified... and ashamed that something happened on my watch! I was so afraid Rose would become sick... As soon as Terri came back... I blurted out that I let Rose eat paper and I was so sorry about it... Terri just looked at me and... smiled... reassuring me that Rose would live to see another day... babies like to put things in their mouths... it is a way of finding out stuff... and Boy, did I feel so much better... So, now, being a lot more experienced, when I'm watching the grandkids... I am in Heaven on Earth! We have seven "grands"... 5 from Mark and Terri and 2 from Marshall and Sharon. Each time we see them, it is such a delight... I enjoy every minute with them... as if our lives would end at midnight... MMM
