5/20

If I could talk to my dad tonight, I'd tell him that his granddaughters know this about him:

• That he used to do "up, down, all around" to dry me off after a bath when I was a little girl (now they like me to do it to them).
  


• That once, when he was little, he went searching through the cabinets to find apple juice. Since he couldn't read yet he gulped down cider vinegar instead.



• That Uncle Mikie and cousins Michael and Charlie Michael are named after him.



• That on weekends he sometimes made me pancakes with chocolate chip smiley faces.


• That Uncle Daniel looks a lot like him.



• That he loved football, especially the Raiders.



• That he liked to watch the Kentucky Derby.



• That he used to sing "Sweet Baby James" and "Sloop John B" to us when we were little.
  


• That he lives in heaven, and that before they were in my belly, they 'played with Grandpa Michael' up in heaven.



• That he got to heaven by being really kind and good.



• That I miss him very much.

I might also tell him that the older I get the younger he died.

C's winning horse, with a "blanket of roses" on him.