Doctor Grandma

This blog began as a daily account of my first and last meeting with my brother after 20+ years. This week –tonight– I came to my daughter’s who is 9 mos. pregnant. It is now a wait for baby-time, and I am away from my husband, which is difficult, and our son who moved home w/ us for awhile, so I will post an entry each night, at least until after baby is here.

We do not know if it is boy or girl. So it will either be Kahlil, or Naylah. We shall see. We have 3 grandsons, so yes, it would be nice to have a little granddaughter! But who knows? In any case, it will be a specially LOVED new addition to our ever-growing family. Leah has had signs of things being very ready to go, including loss of mucous plug, being 3-4 cm. LAST WEEK (!), she has been cleaning her house, packed her bags, and still no active, real labor yet. It will happen soon.

Zakiah is VERY active, non-stop activity and non-stop talking. Since I got here at 5, we kicked a ball back & forth, played a game I brought which pops a plastic  ball into the air, rolled a car down the hall, colored, went out to see my car, and played a toddler Yatzee game. Being a son of an American and a Kenyan, he also speaks a lot of Spanish, as he learns this at his preschool. Well Grandma knows some Spanish, so we talk back & forth this way as well.

Zakiah is going into a new stage of understanding in many ways. He now wants to read but he can’t read, so he is constantly asking, “What does that say?” He wants to write letters. Tonight he got very frustrated with me doing a “dot to dot” because it was counting. He kept saying, “NO, sing it!” He wanted the ABC’s. In coloring, he LOVES staying in the lines now. He likes intricately-lined pictures. He is very excited that Grandma is here for a few days. In fact, Leah told him I would be here until the baby comes, and he said, “FOUR DAYS??”  So we shall see if his prediction comes true. Zakiah turns 4 in July.

Leah’s last day of teaching is tomorrow. Jean is taking a CNA class, 5 nights a week, 5 hours a night, for 5 weeks, I believe!

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