Firsts

Firsts are exciting. First place in a competitive event is always thrilling. I remember my first kiss, my first car, my first job and a lot of other firsts are in my data banks. This week my grandson, Anderson had his first visited from Texas. I'm quite sure my son Kyle and his wife Robin brought all the hot weather with them!!!

Anderson is 9 months old and he experienced several firsts during his visit. You've already heard about Anderson's first visit to Audra State Park, first watermelon and river swimming in yesterdays blog. Since then Anderson had his first experience with new foods. Eggs did not go so well as the headlines could have very easily read: Grandfather Poison's Grandson. Anderson had an allergic reaction to eggs at breakfast. His head turned red and grew two sizes larger due to swelling. Fortunately the reaction was short lived and Benedryl helped. By the evening meal Anderson was ready for another new adventure with spaghetti. Stripped down to nothing but a diaper, he polished off an adult portion of pasta with marinara sauce and two meatballs with great success. Today Anderson was the star of his own photo session, another first with Grandpa. Firsts are indeed exciting.

Our city is just like Anderson when it comes to firsts. Some firsts will be smashing successes and others will end up like the eggs. The important thing is to enjoy the process of firsts by learning from those that are not successful and building on those that are.