Littles 

Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children. Proverbs 17:6

Yesterday, I watched four out of my six grandchildren, ages 3, 4, 7, and 9. Boy, they kept me hopping!

We had pancakes for breakfast. Then they each painted a craft, either a wooden butterfly and a dinosaur. We played in the cabin. Took two golf cart rides. Aunt Mattea came by and we had a big lunch. The boys, Jack, 7, and Finn, 3, played dinosaurs with Juneau, 4, while Belle, 9, watched TV. We took a cookie break on the back porch. The two older kids learned how to ride bikes. Woohoooo! The kids chalked up the driveway and played fetch with Nyx. We made snow cones, or nose cones, as Finn called them.

Before Ezekiel picked up his three, I cut the boys’ nails. Jack was squirming and complaining. He finally let out a loud….“Now I know what Jesus went through!!”

I had to laugh quite hard on that one. So did Aunt Mattea. 

I watched Juneau until 10:30 last night. Her parents are videographers and had a wedding to shoot.

She and I took another golf cart ride after supper. We thought Grandpa D was still fishing but he wasn’t. So we went to the dock and fed the fish. D joined us there. Juneau left the dock to pick clover. She brought the little flowers back to the dock and threw them into the pond. She said she wanted to feed the fish flowers so they would remember her.

Little Juneau, just like her older cousin, Jack, can name all the dinosaurs and share information about each one. Like how they defend themselves and if they are herbivore or carnivore. And yes, she even knows what those terms mean. When her parents dropped her off in the morning, her arms were drawn back and her thumbs held down her pinkies so only three fingers were displayed. Her dad said she was a velociraptor and that she might be one all day. And she pretty much was. She would frequently make a high pitch sound, mimicking that of a velociraptor and stomp with her feet. And of course, her name was Blue. If you are familiar with the JP movies, Blue was a loved velociraptor in Jurassic World. 

After cleaning up and getting into our jammies, Juneau cozied up in a blanket and read her book for a bit.

Then she asked to watch a Jurassic Park or World movie. I texted Mom to see if that was okay. Mom said it was. So we watched The Lost World and had her turn her head away from certain parts. Like good grandparents. 😬

The fun part of the evening was Juneau trying to teach Grandpa D how to pronounce the names of the dinosaurs. He just couldn’t get it. It was pretty funny.

At 10:30, the last of my precious Littles went home. It was an exhausting day but the best kind of exhausting. When a four year old says “it was a really really good day” and your seven year old says “it was the best day ever!”, you know you did a decent job as grandma. My heart is full.

Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Psalm 127:3

♥️

Andi