My favorite thing. Grandsons visit for 2 weeks. Just want to write down a few things we’ve done so their mom can read this later.
Sat.: drove from IN to SC.
Let’s go backwards. Today (WED.), I had to go to my collg for a meeting this morning, left C. w AL working upstairs & went in. Raven has made a couple friends in the last 24 hrs. so he was w/ them partially, and he can go to the pool by himself since he is 14. Caspian keeps getting out large jigsaw puzzles & actually getting some of it done. Only problem is, he does them on the carpet in the middle of the living room floor.
He is in heaven spending time on my computer & hasn’t gone to any sites he shouldn’t. He says he “learned his lesson on that one”. The only thing he DID do, was change the password on my phone’s security settings and shut off all calls. I hadn’t gotten any calls in 3 days, then someone told me it was going directly to voice mail. I was on the phone to VERIZON about it when Caspian says, “Grandma, I know what’s wrong, I changed it.” — trying to get to security settings — “No Grandma, that’s not the password, I changed it.” DANG!! He lost privileges to use my phone & play games.
So when I ret’d, Caspian & I went to pool. He tired of it in an hour & 1/2 or so. Said he was ready to go. Bunch of boys were in the pool for awhile with a large raft. Caspian had fun climbing into it, then falling out backwards and saying, “Navy Seal dive!”
Kids play a REALLY REALLY annoying game in the water called “Marco Polo”. One kid is “it”, they supposedly shut their eyes and don’t peek. They say “Marco” and all the other kids say “Polo”. The kid who is it has to listen to the voices & try to grab someone by following their voice, then that kid is “it”. I’ve seen adults leave the pool they got so annoyed with it. Just up and left.
Tonight, went to a youth poetry night of Al’s, but night before last day of school, no youth showed. Some adults came though, & we actually had a nice sharing time, new guitar players played; Lisa read a love poem from her teenage yrs.; I said 1 short poem I have memorized; it was a good night. Caspian got to paint on the wall outside which has a huge mural painted on it. Lisa included him, very nice.
Day before today: Tuesday. We spent a couple hours at the pool. I don’t remember what else we did except Al watched 2-3 episodes of CSI LA or some such thing and Raven watched it w/ him, then he turned on a comedy show he thinks is hilarious & I watched 1/2 of it w/ him. Raven thought he lost his phone today. Said he had searched his room. His phone was laying on TOP OF his pillow.
Caspian has been taking all his medications w/ no complaints. I put them in applesauce. I take 3 vitamins and tell him I take 3 medications just like him. Sometimes we take them together. I show him my 3 size pills, just like he has 3 different-sized pills.
Sunday night went to a Music Fest outside at a friend’s house down the road. Lots of musicians, yard games, making tye-dye shirts. It was a good time. Cook out food. I think they had a good time. Caspian immediately made friends w/a group of 5 other kids. At one point Caspian threw a pine cone & it hit a truck driving by, & the guy got pissed & stopped. Someone calmed him down & Caspian was spoken to. Nothing else happened.
This weekend we go to Leah & Jean’s for Naylah’s 1st birthday party. Nice the cousins will be together. Leah asked Zakiah to make a list of things for the weekend to do, & he wrote, “Jump out and surprise Grandma!” That’s the only thing he wrote. 🙂
Raven is nearly 6 ft. tall.
Doctor Grandma 
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