Grandboy: Ok Gwumpa make sure no one takes my food while I’m gone. Not the DOG, not MOMMA, not anyone. Not even YOU.

Me: Ok.

Grandboy: This is an IMPORTANT JOB Gwumpa you have to do it. O and not bees either. Make sure no BEES take my food. You know what they look like, they’re BLACK and YELLOW and they like my flowers. And my FOOD Gwumpa.

Me: Ok.

Grandboy: The bees, the bees don’t HURT you if you leave them alone. They live outside remember when you and I saw the bees outside and you said not to bother them and they didn’t hurt us? And we saw squirrels too but they were too fast for me but the bees didn’t hurt them either.

Me: Yep. I remember. Where was it you were going again?

Grandboy (slightly dancing still) O that’s right. I have to go potty. Can you watch my food while I’m gone?

Grandboy (throwing an empty plastic bowl up in the air): Look gwumpa, i catch it, loo.. (bowl hits the ground)

Me: Keep tryin’

Grandboy (repeating the exercise, and always *almost* catching it)

Me: That’s ok, try different ways. You’ll get it.

Grandboy: (finally) Look I got it!

Me: Ah but catching it on your face doesn’t count. But, actually you’re right. I told you to try different ways. Good job 😀

Grandboy: Gwumpa, how you get this truck?

Me: I got a job and got paid for doing work, then I paid for the truck.

Grandboy: Everyone needs things.

Me: Yep.

Grandboy: Everyone needs jobs.

Me: Yep if you can work, you should. It makes you stronger and you help people get stuff done. And you get paid to do it.

Grandboy: I need a job now?

Me: No, yes, well kind of. Your job right now is to go to school and do what your momma tells you. Your momma and I will take care of the rest.

Grandboy: Yah! And my other job is to sing songs to make the red light turn green, like this: “Go away, go away, red light go away” SEE IT TURNED GREEN I’M DOING A JOB SEE?!!?!

Good golly miss Molly, the grandboy has discovered exercise.

Gwumpa gwumpa how many sit-ups you can do? Come down here do them with me look I can do jumping jacks how many you can do? Twenty? Show me, come on good job gwumpa! Let’s do push-ups now!