Here is the youngest of them,
some time ago, demonstrating one of her first smiles. She's a bit older now and she has more hair and lots more coordination and a good amount of chatty babble, but there's something special about this early smile. Surprise and joy! How wonderful to be so new, so fresh, so delighted by what you see for the first time.
We still haven't met, little M and I. She and her three year old brother live in Austria, amid mountains and clean alpine air and lots of snow. When the snow melts and the Alpine flowers start to emerge I'm hoping to visit and meet my fourth grandchild, second grand-daughter. Each son's family has a boy and a girl, and their ages now range from ten years to four months.
This is the loveliest part of my ageing life, to know that the four of them are there, healthy and loved in their different locations.
