Grandpa's Girlie

In fairness, a post like this needed to be made in response to the "Grandma's Girlie" post earlier this summer. During the last week, when my parent were both here to visit Faith and help us out as I had surgery, Faith really got to know and love her Grandpa Sullivan.

My dad has always had a knack with all of his grandgirls. They love just sitting in his lap, playing with his watch, and in Faith's case, eating his shoestrings :) This fascination with Grandpa is just really developing, as Faith is now old enough to be away from mommy and daddy long enough to enjoy the company of others.

Truthfully, Grandma and Grandpa really haven't got to be around her much since she's grown up. They didn't know she was sitting independently, and they quickly learned that she has both a great personality and a quick little temper. One time, they were both playing in the floor with her and she got up on all fours and started rocking. We really thought she was about the crawl for the first time! That would've been great!

She did some pretty cute tricks for them though. She started copying Grandpa when he would make a noise and hit his chest with his hand. She would do the same, and they would go back and forth for a while. Grandma got her started with a cute little tilt of the head. She would give her a bite to eat, then turn her head sideways and say "is it good?" Faith would turn her head, smile, and say "ahhhhh."