So fast

While standing in the ACE Hardware checkout line we met a sweet old man, tuffs of white hair peeked out from under his cap, and his glasses slid down toward the end of his nose.
You both stood at the trinket-trap that's only feet away from the checkers rummaging through treasures.
You were a little wild, but you stayed close and you made us laugh.
We watched as you rummaged and the old man commented "it goes by so fast"
He reminisced to us about his 5-children and noticing our sled commented on how his children in Dallas had just called and told him about sledding with his grandchildren. He seemed a little sad, but you made him smile.
I watched you holding that orange plastic sled, and the rope we would make a handle from and I remembered the time when I held you.
And it does go by fast, but I'm not sad.
You're too great a gift to waste time wishing you were small again, besides you make me smile too much to be sad.