There is no one in my family that is more amazing than my grandpa, Peter Noel. From the time he first held me to the last time that I sat next to him at dinner, I knew that my grandpa and I always shared a special bond. That is why I am devastated that I cannot see him anymore and my sibling will not have the same amount of time that I had with him.
One thing that I have always loved about my grandpa is that he always stopped what he was doing when he noticed that we wanted to sit or play with him. For example, when I used to live with him, sometimes I would walk into his office when he was working on his computer and he would turn around and see me. He would immediately tell me to come sit with him and he would turn on a movie for us to watch together. When my sister Emma was old enough to walk, she would come with me to his office and he would turn on her favorite show, ‘Five Little Monkeys’. When we moved away, he made puppets and started to take videos of himself singing songs and doing shows with the puppets. He also read books to us. I loved how much my grandpa did for us and showed us he loved us.
Another thing I noticed and loved about him is how much he showed his love for my siblings and how much they love him. Whenever he would visit us and walk through the door, my siblings would run up to him too excited to even speak. When we put on plays for him, he watched the whole time, never looking around the room, never looking at his phone, not even leaving to go to the bathroom! My grandpa would also always play dinosaurs with my one-and-a-half-year-old brother, Teigen. My sister, Emma, adored him because of how much he showed love to her, how he played with her, and most of all, how much he snuggled with her. Saviah, who is 2 months old, was very calm when she was with him. I adore the ways he showed love to our family. I hope I am like him when I grow up. He is a perfect example for who I would like to be.
Even though he is not right here with me I still talk to him. When I was uncomfortable the other day, I talked to him. I even buckled the seat belt next to me to make it feel like he was in the car next to me. If I could choose one person that I would want my siblings to be like, it would be him. The special bond my grandpa and I have will never be broken, even if he is not standing next to me right now, even if I am on earth and he is in Heaven, even if he is not holding my hand right now, I still love him to the moon and back and that will never change.