Granny Crowd

Jack was definitely a huge hit with the granny crowd and was just a little angel the whole time. Darling, adorable, so cute, so good, lovely, what a cutie pie, beautiful blue eyes etc. The other members really heaped on the compliments. [Joan]

Athlete

Jack is such an athlete. All day long when he is awake, he is working out. Stretching, turning, rolling, pounding, twisting, rocking, reaching, trying to pull up, trying to crawl, he isn't still a minute. No wonder he needs to eat and sleep, he's worn out from exercise. [Joan]

I Want to Go All Blotchy

Kiva and Jack were here today and we made home squeezed orange juice. Kiva wanted to give some to Jack and I told her "ok, but just a teaspoon, then we have to watch to see if he goes all blotchy" (Jack may have allergies). Kiva looked at me reproachfully and said..."Grammie, I want to go all blotchy too". [Joan]

granpa said so

What a riot they were! Quite the little angels all day. We took Jack and Kiva to Costco with us..took two vehicles...and they were so good the whole time. I had them both in one cart, and pushing the two little beauties around the store was soooo much fun. Kiva munched down big time....chicken salad sandwich....three yogurt samples...a granola sample....then part of a cheese pizza slice and a a modest amount of nonfat yogurt with berries. Amazing what the skinny little twerp can hold! Kiva spent a lot more time then usual with grandpa today....maybe thats why Ken was insisting she come too. They had a lot of fun reading stories, working in the yard, and installing the new dvd player. Kiva had food all over herself when we got home from costco, and Ken said 'I think she needs a bath", so a bath she had. She would not agree to a wash cloth cleanup because "granpa said so". Kiva had some trouble sharing grammie today...she was mostly pretty good about it, but at her request we had some playtime where I carried her around and dressed her like she was a baby. Got her water in a sippy cup so she could lay in my lap and drink it like a bottle. Kiva is certainly loving with Jack (most of the time) and is doing really good at the sibling thing especially being only 3 years old. Looking forward to my Jack tomorrow. He's going with me to Spin Group...the meeting where the women bring their spinning wheels and spin together for a couple hours. We have show and tell too, and the other women tell me I can have Jack as my show and tell. If he gets fussy we will just leave, but I think it will be fine. [Joan]

Tea party with Joy

We had a wonderful day with Kiva yesterday....Ken took her with him to the pet store and talked donald duck talk to her on the way...then a tea party with Joy in the afternoon at Joy's house...all her good china and silver, candles, cookies, the works. Kiva was very shy at first, but warmed up quickly, especially when Joy started showing her treasures (sea shells, birds nests) and reading her Dr. Seuss books. I'm afraid the chocolate cookie really wound her up, and she was pretty wild by time Jim picked her up. I hope she was not too rambunctious that evening. [Joan]

NO WEEDING...you play with your friends!!!

Your princess was too funny again today. Lots and lots of elaborate imagination play...play acting, assigning identities, imaginary playmates, the whole works. We didn't go swimming today, just to the nursery for plants and then played barefoot in the dirt the rest of the day. Kiva is obsessed with Bambi right now. We had to watch the video (no scary parts), then played Bambi outside. She was the mommie dear and I was the baby Bambi. She had to inspect the meadow to make sure it was safe for me. Later on, I was weeding and she came over and said I was the child and had to go to school to play with my friends. She took me over to a corner of the yard and I had to sit down. She then went over to the weeding saying "I'm the mom, I'll do the work, you play with your friends". When I started weeding over where she had left me, I got yelled at from across the yard...."NO WEEDING...you play with your friends!!!" The dirt pile later became the house and we had the bedroom, the office, the kitchen etc. Making couches out of piles of dirt. We also planted stuff and Kiva has her garden where she planted carrots, peas and beans. Great day, lovely weather. [Joan]

outdoor nudie time

Jack loved his outdoor nudie time. He spent some time exploring his boy parts (can't get to them most of the time poor little guy), but mostly talked to me and Dancer and rattled his toys. He kept leaning over to pet the grass a little bit too. His balance is really good...he would start to tip over backward, and lunge forward to save himself. too funny. [Joan]

Cheerio Necklaces

Your girl was a joy again. When Kiva first got here we had mango pudding (juice, fruit and tapioca...no sugar). Then we made cheerio necklaces with red crochet thread and my big plastic knitting sewing needle. I'm happy to report that Kiva can now cut thread, thread the needle, string cheerios on the thread and count the cheerios to make sure we had the same on both necklaces. She's a genius as you know. We wore the necklaces to the snow and ate the cheerios while we were playing. Then she planted pansies out in my garden. [Joan]

Too old to work

Kiva was trying to figure out why you and Ken don't work... She was asking where we all lived and worked etc. When she asked where you and Grandpa worked, I said you had worked a long time and now you didn't have to work, it's called being retired. She replied, "oh...so they are too old to work!" I replied, in fact you weren't too old to work you were both very capable just planned well and now don't HAVE to work. She said, "oh, so they're lucky!" It was pretty cute. [Vanessa]

Sewing

Did Kiva tell you how she helped with the sewing? poked the needle in and pulled it through! She was so proud of herself. [Joan]