Raising Paige

In the past week or so Paige has suddenly started communicating more. Using more words, putting words together and really showing that she is understanding us and trying to respond back. It’s pretty amazing. Being a grandparent raising a grandchild isn’t easy but raising Paige certainly has more pluses than minuses. As I’ve mentioned before, getting up in the night to change her (my wife does this) and give her a bottle (I do this) means we don’t get a complete night’s sleep. Luckily my wife is able to nap during the day on weekends, which is something I can’t do easily, and I have the occasional drink. J To be completely honest, I don’t recall having this experience with our daughters. Now I’ll admit my memory isn’t what it used to be but for the life of me I can’t recall going through this. Is it possible that my wife did everything and I did nothing? I suppose so - but I hope I’m wrong. Is it possible that it was so traumatizing that I have blocked it from memory? Maybe, ...

Paige - currently a 20.5 month old little girl with a ton of personality and energy. Me and my wife - 40-something year old grandparents raising Paige full-time and wondering where we can get some of her energy. I won't go into detail as to why we're raising Paige right now. That's a different post once I get permission from the wife. Suffice it to say at this point in our lives we weren't expecting to be raising a child all over again. In less than a week I turn 46 but in the past 20 months I have felt both 26 and 66 at various times. Raising Paige will do that. At times she is so full of wonder and excitement, snuggles and laughter that you feel young again and able to do anything. At other times she is so full of tears and tantrums, energy and anger that you feel too old to move. But hey, it's all fun right? Right? Of course it is... Since she will be raised in a world of social media, computers and the Internet I thought I would start this blog to chro...