And rattles and mobiles suddenly caught his attention.
Over the Easter holidays, we stopped to visit him and a few days later, he actually made his debut trip to Ohio. Where was Gov. Strickland?
There he was the subject of a couple of get-togethers, sort of meet and greets, so Henry could become familiar with his extended family and they could meet him. Henry for the most part was cordial, although I suspect the others were more interested in meeting Henry than vice versa.
He did have great interest in his cousin Lauren, who for 14 years was the youngest Lebzelter until his debut.
Henry is an emotional boy. He appears content one second, followed by crying. Ironically during his Ohio visit, I got out my “Emotional Rescue” CD by the Rolling Stones and we did some dancing and it quieted him. I think he was too confused to be upset.
Back in the early 80s, his father and I danced to the same CD, well, except it was on eight-track at the time.
He's learned and changed a lot in the past six weeks. When we don't see the little guy, we take solace in watching him in high-definition videos.
My digital camera allows me to take more photos of him then I ever could with Derek and I regularly pile my results onto Facebook for those interested. Henry visits are highly concentrated photographic moments. My Canon takes 3.2 pictures per second.
So that's my grandfatherly column. You young wipersnappers better have read this thoroughly. Why, when I was young, we respected columns about grandchildren. Not like kids today.
Eh, not really. Just thought I needed to act curmudgeonly at the end of this column.
Next week I will write about something cool and hip dynamic.
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