Grandboy, after stealing all my white pillows and arranging them on the white bed cover:

“Gwumpa, I make a EGGloo to live in. See my EGGloo? Know why it’s a EGGloo?

Because my penguins live in it and they lay EGGS.

EGGS, Gwumpa.EGGS.”

GWUMPA. You hugging me too hard, you squishing me and I gonna pop.

You want me to POP, GWUMPA?

Just heard the saddest comment.

Some fella said something like, “if I leave early (from work) all I’ll be doing is pushing the kids on swings, grumble grumble grumble.”

I can’t even start to explain to him how precious a gift this is, especially considering the alternatives I’ve lived through, and many alternatives I’ve been blessed to be prevented from experiencing.

He’ll learn soon enough tho

The grandboy is excited. Mamasan is taking him to the beach where he can find SKI SHELLS and maybe some SNEE SNAILS

Taught the grandboy some techniques on washing dishes by hand.

Used far too much soap and water but it’s an investment for future visits at gwumpa’s place…

“Gwumpa, you know why we have planets? So we can have a PLACE to put our STUFF.

Awwwe. I’d miss mommy if we didn’t have a PLANET.

And bathtubs.

O and the grass… and MOTORCYCLES!

We need a planet, gwumpa.”

Grandboy, to mamasan: “Momma, after school tomorrow, when you pick me up, you can get me a baby brudder?”

If you’re ever wondering how quantum physics and children (particularly grandchildren) are alike, consider this:

1. You can measure where the child is, or how quickly he or she is running around the house, but never both at the same time.
2. Given the amount of time the child enters a room and the time an object is broken or a cookie jar in a different location is opened, you can only conclude the child was at both places at the same time.
3. You don’t know if the child is awake or asleep at naptime until you open the door to find out.
4. Observing the child alters his or her behaviour (see previous point).
5. When the child falls down and skins his or her knee, your heart hurts instantly, regardless of distance.  That’s very spooky.
6. A child’s state is passionately happy, sad, angry, hungry, you name it.  But this is always compartmentalised, and never anything in between.
7. Watching the child play with others (especially in a large group) leads to the conclusion that the individual child has particle properties as he or she asserts his or her self.  But the child also has wave properties as he or she disappears in the crowd and reappears at will.
8. The smaller the child is, the more uncertainty you encounter.  However at the macro level, uncertainty is never removed.

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