Sweet Grandpa Claude!
January 2, 1923 - July 8, 2011
What a handsome pot licker!
He called everyone a pot licker... as a joke of course!
Truly a handsome man!
I miss him terribly!
4 Generations!
Claude, Bruce, Brian and Isaac!
So happy I got this photo!
Isaac was only about a month or two in this photo
and it's the only one I have of the 4 of them!
Grandpa loved the "GIRLS"...
wanted to always chase them!
Called them all "Lover".
[I had to explain to him what that really means now days!]
This picture is so funny...
He is the only man sitting at the table with all these girls!
So fitting!!
Now he's with his sweet heart!
Think this is such a cute picture of him and Susan.
One of his many "Lovers"!
Grandpa was hesitant on having us move in with him.
He was so set in his ways and his routine...
he was worried that we would throw it off and
Isaac would be an issue...
He hasn't been around a baby that much in such a long time!
But then he had major surgery and needed someone with him 24/7.
After consideration again... we moved in!
It was the best decision we all made!
Grandpa would say that he couldn't believe that he was against it at first.
He couldn't believe he had been alone for that long.
It was so nice to know that he was happy about it in the end!
Isaac was sometimes a pill...
Grandpa didn't love the screaming - weird! :)
But it all worked out...
It was a blessing for all of us!
This is the only picture I have of just Grandpa and Isaac.
I love it for that... but...
it makes me so sad that this is the only one I have.
It's not the greatest quality...
Isaac is squirming...
it's dark...
:(
I regret not getting more of the two of them.
At the end... the last few months...
Isaac would always say goodnight to Grandpa.
Grandpa would yell down the stairs to say Goodnight...
and Isaac would run over and yell it back up to him! SO CUTE!
When we would leave the house he would run and give
Grandpa kisses bye and yell "BYE BAMPA" and wave to him.
Isaac was full of energy and is quite loud... especially when he screams.
Grandpa didn't always love that... but he was cute with him.
Isaac loved to get into Grandpa's TV room as much as possible.
Probably because it was forbidden.
He loved to grab the phone right off the bat and the TV remote.
Of course that stressed Grandpa out.
He was always afraid that Isaac would somehow destroy
the phone or call someone.
It was funny to watch... and sometimes I just had to tell
him to relax and that he wasn't going to hurt it.
FUNNY STORY:
When Isaac learned how to open the doors around the house
we knew we had to get those door rings so he couldn't open the doors.
Well he soon figured out how to get those off and open the doors.
[To Grandpa's stress of course!]
Brian and I were in the front room or kitchen doing stuff
and Isaac figured out how to get off the door ring into his TV room
and all of a sudden we hear Grandpa yelling
"BRUCE... BRUCE HELP! He's getting into my stuff!
He has my phone... BRUCE... HELP!!!"
Of course we were laughing so hard... cause it was Brian
he was meaning to call to... but in a panic he yelled
Bruce's name instead.
So we got Isaac out and Grandpa calmed down...
Brian started putting duct tape on the door ring and all of a sudden
we hear "BRUCE... BRUCE he's in here again!"
Isaac had run around to the other door and gotten in that way.
It was so funny!
Needless to say every door around the house
has a door ring with duct tape on it!
Love you Grandpa... I miss you!
So happy you are out of pain...
can stand up tall...
and most of all...
See your SWEET HEART and dance with her!!!
Love you so much...
Love all of the sweet memories I have of you!
You will always be missed!
You are a handsome man!
This is what I believe you look like now...
Love you Grandpa!!!
Miss you...
