The Bad Lotion

Your girl tooooooo funny this afternoon after nap. Kiva played out in the yard while I weeded, Ken worked on his wood stuff, Chris working on his art, dogs romping around. Kiva making the rounds of all of us, visiting, chatting, helping, then moving on.
Later when it was getting late, we were playing on my bed with a bunch of stuffed animals, when she said "I'm going to put some bad lotion on". I was mystified, and said, "I don't think the lotion is bad honey, it looks ok". Kiva answered, "no grammie, it's the kind of lotion that when I put it on I'm bad". So she proceeded to put some lotion on, jump up on the bed and growl, pinch and bite all her animals. Absolutely hilarious. Then she looked at me and said, "I'll put some good lotion on later grammie, then I'll be Kiva again". And later she put some more lotion on and was the good girl again. Where do these little growing brains think of this stuff? When we left the weavers meeting this morning, she said "I didn't know people had white hair grammie, it is very beautiful".[Joan]

Noodle Soup with Mice

Kiva REALLY enjoyed the home made treats (pumpkin delight and chocolate chip cookies) at the meeting, sat quietly with me for about 15 minutes, then colored, then watched her strawberry shortcake dvd. It took her a while to get brave enough to look and move around, but she was just fine. When we went to the bath room, she whispered to me "this is such a nice house grammie". It's a typical 60ish years old widow's house. Lot's of pretty things, flowers, birdhouses, absolutely nothing out of place (not like here) etc. After a while she sat on the bed (right off the living room) and watched her video and played with the dog. Came home, ate our lunch out in the yard, into the hot tub and now she is sleeping.
They are so surprising; Kiva and I were playing with her stuffed toys this morning. She has some stuffed birds and said they were sick. I asked her what I could do for them and she said...make them some soup. I asked her what kind and she said chicken, then no wait grammie, make noodle soup and boil some mice in it for one of them, and boil pine cones for the other one. Hilarious. [Joan]

EAT!!

Yesterday I asked Jack if he was hungry.."do you want to eat?" He immediately went to the kitchen, found the spoon he had thrown on the floor, and stood in front of the microwave, waving the spoon and yelling "EAT!" [Joan]

Staring at the Ceiling

Jack presently out in the yard with Granpa while I take a quick email break. Jack is very affectionate, but he is so energetic that all you get are these brief hugs or snuggles and off he goes. One of the reasons I love giving him his bottle, it's one of the few times he stays in one place; although today he was absolutely determined to stick his finger up my nose! :-) He drank his whole bottle with me staring at the ceiling to keep my nose out of range. [Joan]

Silly Goose

what a character Kiva is! silly goose indeed :-) how she makes us laugh! also how she makes us get all teary eyes with love and appreciation. Kiva did a lot more independent play today, our girl is growing up. She painted deep in solitary thought for a while, and spent quite a bit of time playing her "kitchen' with her dollies and pretend food. Such a treat to listen to her sing or talk to her toys. We are so lucky to have been able to appreciate so many of her baby/toddler days. [Joan]

Email from Kiva

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dear mom: I love you momma. We are playing with my jewelry box. And we play with mom's jewelry box. I had a second breakfast. That’s all
Kiva

Hot?

what a treat Jack is today. He has been so energetic!!! but also comes over to grammie pretty often for looooong hugs that are too sweet. When Ken came down this morning, Jack immediately went to his chair and tried to climb up, I helped him into Ken's lap and Jack just laid his little head on Ken's tummy, wrapped his arms around him and just laid there for a long time smiling. Ken had this huge (Who's the special grandparent here?) smile on his face. Jack is also definitely talking. He does ask "hot?", says granpa (papa) and yaks his little head off telling me about his views on things. I had a cup of hot tea and he asked me "hot?", so of course I said yes, and he asked me again and I said yes again. He peeped into the cup and got that devil look again and just had to stick his fingers in it to check. Fortunately I'd put milk in it to cool it down so it wasn't that hot. But this boy is going to test the limits I can tell. We went to Costco with him too and when he got bored with sitting in the cart he walked all over charming everyone as he walked by saying "hi" with that sweetie smile. [Joan]

Such a Daredevil

Jack still is afraid of the swings, but must have gone down the slide 50 times. He climbs the steps himself and I help him sit and he pushes off. Very funny. He is such a daredevil. When "walking" down our big stairs, I can get him to hold on to my hand and the railings, but then he puts his feet on the edge of the step and slides them forward so he just drops down a step, instead of actually walking. [Joan]

Poopy Butt Boy

Your boy got me good today :-) When he woke up he took a major and I mean MAJOR poop, and while changing him I realized I didn't have enough wipes and I didn't have a fresh diaper. So I wiped as good as I could with what I had, grabbed him facing me to my chest, and ran to the office to get a clean diaper. Of course while I was rummaging he peed all over my shirt and jeans. So, there I was holding a naked poopy butt boy, both of us dripping with urine. Hilarious actually, so I headed up to the bathroom and Jack had his first shower with Grammie. Jack enjoyed the shower, as did I. When I got out, I wrapped Jack in a towel and carried him in to Ken who was laying down on his bed. I wish you could have seen the mystified look he gave his wet naked wife as I handed him a wet naked Jack so I could quick dry off and get dressed and then get Jack dressed. I don't know what I would do if my life was dull and dreary. These guys really make me laugh.
P.S. Our little genius stacked THREE spools today, we both clapped and said Yayyyyyy [Joan]

I don't eat solids at Grammie's

Jack is doing great. I do see the temper coming though....I think a big storm will hit us soon. Today I had the baby gate leaning against the wall behind one of my spinning wheels. It was tipped forward against the spinning wheel, and Jack decided he wanted it to stand up straight against the wall. He kept pushing it up and it would fall back against the spinning wheel. He got increasingly enraged, until he was in a full hissy fit, hitting the baby gate, red faced and screaming. Oh my goodness he was MAD.
On the plus side, otherwise he has been a really good mood, and has apparently gotten over the "I don't eat solids at Grammie's house" thing. Ate two bowls of chicken cacciatore with noodles, a full bottle and is now sacked out. We went to the park this morning which he just loves. Jack went all over the sand pit handing out his toys to the other kids, except his little truck which he kept a tight grip on. Then an older girl took it out of his hand and walked off. Jack didn't yell or anything, just kept following her all over the playground, watching his truck. He didn't make any attempt to take it back either, just kept a little beady eye fixed on it. Her daddy then made her give it back. Too funny. Jack and grandpa were on the floor playing with trucks this morning, very cute. [Joan]