Grandma and Grandpa...

Art and I love being grandparents. 

We recognize that we have unique opportunities to teach and nurture a young life.

So when Toby said, "Grandma I'm hungry," this morning, I 

asked, "Do you want the cereal that you picked out yesterday at the store?" 

"No, I want my jelly beans for breakfast." 

Silly boy...

I made him eat his TRIX before the jelly beans, and then I made him give me the black ones:) 

A boy and his dog...

We now get e-mails from the Vanuatu kids. Art loves writing back to them, and he is much more diligent to do it than me, but that is another story. This morning Sierra asked him a simple question, an opportunity for him to teach her about the nature of cats. 


"Grandpa, how do the cats catch the birds?" 


Grandpa responded, 
"The cats go outside and put on bird costumes so that the real birds don't think that they are cats. 
When one of the real birds comes over to say hi ho to the new bird in the neighborhood the disguised cat snags the bird. They have big pockets in their bird costumes so they can catch several before they take them to dinner. The birds are catching on to the scam though and yesterday there were several birds in cat costumes. I'm not sure what the birds intend to do with the cats, but it's fun to watch." 


That's how we roll as grandparents. Our grandchildren love us. 
We love them too..
Did I mention we are soon to be great grandparents? 
I can hardly wait....