Nathan and the flower

When I went to pick Nathan up from school yesterday, I got there early enough to watch the kids playing outside. It was pretty warm out, so I cracked my window so I could kind of hear them a little bit. If you know my son, this won't come as a surprise, but I can usually hear Nathan above the 14 other kids in the class. Anyway, it was so cute listening and watching him play with his classmates. It was even cuter still what he did when they were going inside. He was second to last in line, and one teacher pointed out to the other the flower that was growing right outside the door. Nathan asked to see it, so they were showing him, meanwhile holding them up from getting all the other kids ready to go home. Then I heard him ask if he could pick it for his mommy. The teacher told him he ought to just leave it there but he could show me when he left. When I got to the door, he came running out so excited to show me. Just the excitement he had over the first spring flower was so cute to see.

On a side note, Dustin's grandpa is in the hospital. I guess he has pneumonia, but he fell down his stairs a few nights ago, too. He's a really tough old guy though, he's had a lot of health problems but always seems to get through them. Dustin's really worried about him though, he hasn't really said so, but I can tell. They're very close and I think ever since my grandpa died almost a year ago it's really had him thinking about when it's going to happen with his grandparents. Hopefully not for awhile yet, and hopefully when it happens we'll be able to be at peace with it. It's hard, I think about my grandpa nearly every day, but then I just remember that he's watching over my family and it helps. I wish I could have seen him one last time, but I know he knows I loved him even though he wasn't the kind of grandpa I said that to. And I also know he's proud of me and my boys just like Dustin's grandpa is of him.