I Remember Stacy

Here are a few things I remember about Stacy:

• She HATED to go to sleep. Remember how she fell asleep eating ice cream at Michelle's reception?


• She wasn't even completely delivered when I saw her looking around the room.


• She called her plastic swimming pool a pond.


• She smiled at me when only about two days old. She had kept her parents up all night. We gave her a bath and a drop of formula. Her mother went to bed. And while I was holding her before she drifted off, she started moving her mouth. Surely, I thought, she can't be trying to smile! Then, she gave me the biggest grin you ever saw.


• When she was five: if it wasn't pink, forget about her wearing it.


• It never ocurred to her that someone didn't like her and that she wasn't "A" O.K.


• When she was about three months old, she rolled everywhere. She LOVED paper and tryied to stuff it in her mouth whenever she could.

• She used to call for me, "Grrrrrrrrandma!"