How they make you smile

[Nanto2girls]

Awww bless him.Kids do come out with some gems.

[Plantaholic]

I wonder why he wanted to be two still?

[ZIZI]

Ben face timed me a little while ago. He still has his little speech impediment and this gets exacerbated when he is excited. He was gabbling on about a rugby player and a whale and the sea and a sliding thing in the swimming pool (they are on holiday in Cyprus). To be honest there was a lot of "oh" and. "Oh yes" from me. It turned out that an England rugby player started to talk to him and asked about his heart op scars, Ben being Ben chatted on and on and told him the whole story as far as he knows it including the bit about him being in a hospice and his heart and oesophagus operations and that he loves whales - no we don't know where that came from - and the rugby player (whose name I cannot remember) welled up and trotted off and brought back an enormous inflatable whale for him and spent the rest of the afternoon playing in the sea with him.

People can be very nice......

[Nanto2girls]

How lovely for Ben. Yes ZIZI, there are some lovely people.

[Daisy]

Awww, Zizi - England may have been rubbish in the world Cup this year, but at least one of the team has a big heart, which is faaaarrrr more important.

[Nana]

What a lovely uplifting story Zizi. What a lovely man.😥

[Gemini]

Lovely, Zizi

[Plantaholic]

I wonder who it was, a very special man.

[Daisy]

The GCs and their mum ended up staying over last night. This morning GS2 poured out a bowl of cereal, got a bottle of milk from the fridge and emptied into his bowl, then went to throw the milk bottle away in the general rubbish bin. I stopped him, and he said 'oh, it goes into the recycling box, doesn't it?' I said no it didn't, we put it out on the front step and the milkman comes and takes it away and refills it with milk. He looked at me with an expression of total disbelief on his face and said 'Yeah, right, Grandma' !!

[Gemini]

LOL, yes I suppose it does sound unlikely to todays children Daisy

[Gemini]

Talking with my 6 year old GD recently, the topic of the new baby, due in Spring came up. As you all know she has wanted a sibling for a long time, and is so excited. We talked about how lovely it would be to have the baby, and how I was excited too. Then I told her (which I have many times before) how very happy I was to become a Grandma, how wonderful it was to finally meet her,and that no matter how many grandchildren I have she will always be my special first one. 'But do you love E the same as me Grandma?' (her cousin) 'Oh yes, of course I do darling, I love you both the same.' she seemed pleased with this answer, she adores her cousin.
Then she piped up with 'But I expect you were a bit less excited the 2nd, time as it had happened before'

[Daisy]

Oh, Gem - how do such young heads have such wise thoughts!

[Gemini]

I'm not sure this makes my daughter smile, tear her hair out more likely!

At just turned 3, this Christmas is the first one my grandson has really been able to anticipate. None of us have gone overboard talking about it to him yet, or reading Christmas books, but he is obsessed!! Possibly the effect of nursery.
When he stayed with us earlier this week asking Santa for presents and looking up our chimney was his favourite game.

He is very annoyed that it isn't Christmas now, and he feels it ought to be. He had to be prevented from opening all the doors on his Advent calendar yesterday, to 'make it Christmas'!
One day last week my 2 older daughters and my grandchildren went to see the switching on of Christmas lights in the small town where my eldest daughter lives. Afterwards they went into the Abbey, where there was a Christmas Fair and tea and coffee etc, and FATHER CHRISTMAS!
They didn't know this, so grandsons mum wasn't able to prepare him. He waited his turn then told FC what he would like for Christmas. He was given a small parcel. He looked surprised but opened it all the same (His mum said that he seemed to think that somehow his castle was inside this tiny parcel) When he got the wrapping off, inside was pencil and note book. He was very, very cross! 'Where are my presents?!' he bellowed. He's not a quiet child. He really felt that he had been duped. He asked for the presents on his list and few surprises, and this was all he got!! He made a lot of fuss. My other daughter tells me that my granddaughter (6) was mortified

And so the attempt to make grandson realise that Christmas Eve, and his toys, are a while away yet, continues...

[Qwerty]

Oh dear time goes slow as a child and at 3 they don't fully understand do they, does he know there is a nice and a naughty list perhaps worth a chat about lol

[Qwerty]

Funnily enough when in York last week our eldest g/d was running a little further way than her mum told her and she wouldn't adhere to her mum calling, when in Costa for hot chocolate she asked for marshmallows at which point DD said well you have been naughty she replied I am not naughty mum I'm just complicated!!