Full Circle

My daughter Stacie is married to her childhood sweetheart.  When I say childhood, I REALLY mean CHILDHOOD!  They started "going together" in the 6th grade, never dated anyone else, and got married while still in college at the age of 21.  Her husband Tyler was an All American offensive lineman so he is not what you would call a little bitty guy.  They have been blessed with two adorable little boys - Kollyn age four and Caleb who is almost two.  They are not exactly what you would call little bitty boys either!  They were both born the usual newborn size but they soon grew into AMAZING proportions for babies and toddlers.  At this time Kollyn weighs in at an impressive forty six pounds and Caleb tops the scale at thirty pounds.  Poor Stacie sometimes has problems with her back and hips and it's not hard to understand why!

But my story isn't about these two little football players in the making.  It's about the cliche "What goes around comes around."  Pa and I were at Stacie's house and Kollyn was playing a video game.  He set it down to play with something else and Caleb picked the controller up so he could "play".  Well, of course this made Kollyn realize that he still wanted to play that video game more than anything else he has ever wanted in his entire life!!  He grabbed, Caleb screamed, Mommy informed Kollyn that he had set it down, now it was Caleb's turn.  Kollyn stood there for a minute and as we went back to visiting we noticed Kollyn shutting the door on the entertainment center much to Caleb's distress.  When Stacie, somewhat exasperated, asked why he was doing that, Pa and I looked at each other and laughed.  We were both going back  approximately 27 years ago when then three year old Stacie was drinking out of a Pepsi bottle.  We heard her and her two year old sister Jamie squealing at one another.  We didn't think anything of it because quite frankly as any parent knows, that is something that becomes a constant background noise once you welcome # two into the fold.  We did finally glance over and saw Stacie standing with her arm straight out from her body pouring the Pepsi on the ground.  We hollered "Stacie, what are you doing?!"  and she calmly, like it was the most logical thing in the world said, "But Jamie was going to drink it!"  Made sense to her!  I guess in a lot of ways life does come around full circle.