This is one of the grandboy’s fav songs. Nice to know it’s still got power after 35 years 🙂

Grandboy: Hey Gwumpa whatcha doin’?

Me: Resting my head in the table.

Grandboy: Why?

Me: I’m just a little tired, that’s all

Grandboy (sounding like his mamasan): GWUMPA you need to REST. Your body needs REST. Go back to bed.

Me: …

Grandboy: Hey Gwumpa, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s NIGHTTIME. The sun is down so let’s go to sleep. C’mon!

Me (looking up at the window): Boy, it’s bright outside and 7:30 in the morning.

Grandboy: Use YOUR IMAGINATION

Me (thinking): What’s going on in his head?

Grandboy: (humming the tune of “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, by Edvard Grieg as he plays with a stuffed bunny. The bunny appears to be leaping into a crevasse, but I may have misinterpreted its battle cry)

https://youtu.be/PC7-29kM0SA

Grandboy (ankle deep in mud, water hose spraying a rainbow into the air): BWAHAHAHAHA

Me: …

Grandboy (kicking a toy car out of the deep mudhole he created from the hose spray): AND THAT MY FRIEND IS THAT

Me:…

Grandboy (aiming the hose along the cement patio, splattering mud everywhere)

Me: What are you doing?

Grandboy: I’M THE KING OF THE OCEAN. I’M FLOODING THE TRI-STATE AREA

Me: Ok king, but don’t forget to get your cars out of that hole. Once the mud dries, you aren’t going to find them again.

Grandboy: YES THE KING HAS A GOOD ADVISOR. BWAHAHAHA (more rainbows fill the sky)

Grandboy: Gwumpa that’s cool. I wanna try.

Me: Ok, wait a minute.

Grandboy: Hey that’s like a giant robot. I wanna try, Gwumpa

Me: Watch what happens when I JUMP

Grandboy: AAAUGH that’s COOL GWUMPA I WANNA TRY PLEASE

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Thanks Thinkgeek.com. Now he will get exercise for hours, and I know where he’s at at all times. I should have bought more Mega Stomp Panics!