Doctor Grandma

I am going to post a few times about what our grandson is doing while visiting us this summer. Don’t have time to write much now.

For now, I will mention that here he has fishing on the pond; free swimming anytime; and some friends in the neighborhood. He knows how to thread a fishing pole. We had 2 that were a mess. He straightened them out in about a minute. Then we bought some worms & he’s been at it. Caught a carp & a bluegill.

Neighbors next door are moving, which is a bummer for all the kids in the area, as they have 4 boys, 1 girl, 2 dogs, etc. 

Caspian switches from watching Disney films to wanting to be a gangster hustler. I hope he gets less fascinated with the rapster gang hustler mentality as he gets a bit more mature. This is what we all hope for.

His best friend is a skate boarder, but most of all they love swimming. An adult has to be there but we somewhat take turns. Most of the time, I’m there with him. Sometimes adults just sit to the side in the shade, talk & let the kids swim.

Plan for today is to take him downtown Columbia to an art store & buy some sort of art paint or craft project he can work on when he needs to “chill”, then stop in the store down the street that has old fashioned candy. We’ll be home in the afternoon, then go to my husband’s poetry/music event tonight from 8-10, “Mind Gravy.” 

It is evident that medications are wearing off by evening, as he gets very hyper at night. This happens every day. 

He swam so much yesterday & even a late swim last night w/ neighborhood boys that he slept in until after 10 this morning. We wore him out. That’s unusual!

Our account of Wed. begins with a phone call at 4:30am, which was my husband telling me he left BOTH his phones at home– work and personal cell. Caspian heard me getting up so he got up & we both drove Grandpa his phones at 5am! Awesome start to the day (not), the only good thing being my husband never does these things and always brags that if you always put things in the same place, these things do not happen. We are more alike sometimes than different. We both need routines to not lose track of things and stay in sinc, it’s just that he loves routines and I do not.

Caspian being awake at 5am did not go back to sleep, while I zonked back out at home for 3 more hours. He is missing a med. but has been doing well, as long as he is not too much restricted from Small Worlds game on the Internet. . . (If he lived here, things would have to change.)

We actually have not been going many places or doing sight-seeing much at all. They’ve been hanging in the neighborhood, swimming, and they each have a couple good friends in the neighborhood. We went swimming for an hour & 1/2 or so, & it was sunny again. I had forgotten the never-ending cloudy days of Indiana until the boys acted like they had to RUSH back to swim because the sun was out! I siad, “It’s always out here, just an occasional rain shower. . .”

Last evening we then went downtown w/AL to his Mind Gravy poetry/music night. It was actually an awesome night. The coffee house filled to the brim with people even standing outside (no more seats). People sang and said their pieces. I didn’t read anything, AL only read one, there were so many wanting to speak their thoughts. Raven played chess during most of it on his I-POD, playing one older man who happened to be AT the event 2 games & beating him as well. Caspian was impressed to get an autographed copy of a CD from “SHEEM-ONE” a friend of ours who is determined to make his living doing music, DJ-ing and doing positive hip hop. People sang and spoke about LOVE, our friends Sufia & Seitu performed also, with Seitu getting the crowd to sing w/ him. It was a good night, which didn’t end until close to 10:30 after cleaning up and clearing out, so we got home after the pool was closed to anyone under 21. We were all tired.