Jackson's First Homecoming Dance

These four boys have been best friends all their lives.  They started out together in preschool and are now high school sophomores at Falls Church High School.

My first grandchild is now sixteen, driving, 6'2" and--apparently--dating!  When did all this happen?  Why am I humming Fiddler on The Roof's "Sunrise, Sunset" all day, with tears in my eyes? Wasn't his first birthday just a minute ago?

Yesterday was Jackson's first homecoming dance.  All these boys brought their dates to Jackson's house for dinner before the dance.

Day served dinner on Nana's china and with Nana's red glasses:

 Even Little Bro Marcus got in on the party--as little brothers usually do!

(sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset...)
Is this the little girl i carried?
Is this the little boy at play?
I don't remember growing older,
When did they?

When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he grow to be so tall?
Wasn't it yesterday when they were small?

Sunrise sunset, sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly flow the days,
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers,
Blossoming even as they gaze...