Weren't you just 3 last week?

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

Best Brother

Lucy is by far one of the luckiest little girls around to have a brother like you.  I had three brothers growing up.  My oldest brother, your great Uncle Donovan was a music major and taught me how to play the piano.  He was very particular about things and also made sure I did things the proper way.

There was my brother Barry, who was my favorite.  When he would come home from college for a weekend, he would always give me the best hugs, and he was always happy.

Then Darryl.  He lived to tease and trick both Gyl (your great aunt) and myself.  He threw us both off the end of the dock to teach us how to swim (we survived of course, but it wasn't pretty).  He told me I could get rid of my big nose by wearing a cloths pin on it "every" night.  I did and I still have a big nose.   He would chase me holding bugs or spiders (grandma isn't especially fond of bugs and spiders). 

I know you will teach Lucy a lot.  You will have a lot of laughs together, and enjoy teasing one another. 

You're the best Penn!  I love you.

Best weekend!

I never had so much fun losing!

I lost the game of darts,

...and many games of air hockey.

You sunk my ships in Battleship.

I enjoyed the traditional Christmas tree setup,

 

 

Waking up to you, Lucy, your mother, Mr. Daniel and your Uncle Tyler's coffee.

Bedtime stories and thankfulness,

and discovering that at 8 years old your feet are the same size as grandma Jeanne's.

 

 

Your mother's home cooking,

 

Taking you to school.

  Thank you Penn for one of grandma's BEST weekends ever!

A Winner

The Cheetahs wond their game today (11/19/11) to take 2nd place in the league.  They were only one away from 1st! (This was posted by your mother on FB).

Happy Birthday Penn

If I were a writer, I would have this to write to you:

Whatever happened to one, two and three,
when I held you in my arms
and bounced you on my knee?

And when did four, five and six
slip by
when I pushed you on the swing,
and you said, "push me high!"?

Now I do remember
remember seven,
but before I know it
you will be eleven!

I love you Penn Lennon Smith!

Love,
Grandma Jeanne

I Miss You

This morning when I was walking Marley, I thought about you and wished you were here.

At sometime in your life of education you will read in your history book about Steven Jobs.  Most likely you will think about him as intense as I think about Thomas Edison every time I flip a switch to turn a light on.  For now and for what it is worth, Mr. jobs impact in grandma Jeanne's life time has made it possible for me take pictures from my phone and post to you and to receive daily updates about you from your mother.  His innovation has helped us stay in touch, even though you live in Dallas TX, and grandma lives in MI.



Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.
In the late 1970s, Jobs—along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others—designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh.^[6][7] After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios.^[8] He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006,^[9] making Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder at seven percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.^[10][11] Apple's 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its interim CEO from 1997, then becoming permanent CEO from 2000, onwards.^[12] After resigning as CEO in August 2011, Jobs was elected chairman of Apple's board of directors and held that title until his death.
On October 5, 2011, Jobs died in California at age 56, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.^[2][13][14] On his death he was widely described as a visionary, pioneer and genius—perhaps one of the foremost—in the field of business, innovation, and product design, and a man who had profoundly changed the face of the modern world, revolutionized at least six different industries, and who was an "exemplar for all chief executives". His death was widely mourned and considered a loss to the world by commentators across the globe. - Wikipedia