Try different ways

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 😀




Everyone needs jobs

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?!!?!




The grandboy has discovered exercise.

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!