Saturday July 21, 2007

 

 

Grandchildren Continued

 

I’m not sure why Hezekiah was chasing Josh ~ but there was a lot of laughter and noise.

 

Brothers on opposite sides of the door.

 

 

The girls wanted to do some more “office work”.  I have several thousand envelopes that need to have labels put over an old address, so that seemed like a good idea ~ and they got a lot finished while watching a movie.

 

 

 

That pleased Ian and Gloria ~ because they didn’t have to share the GameCube all afternoon.

 

Dear Jared had trouble remembering that he could not jump on the mattresses lined up on the floor ~ so he ended up on “the bench” for one minute ~ several times during the last three days.   

After a few times the big boys would say, “Jared, you’re going to “the slammer” again!”   

Since it became amusing for the big boys, and they were often the ones who notified me that Jared was jumping on the mattresses, I was “anxious and waiting” for a time I could assign “the slammer” to the big boys. 

Then it happened!

Yesterday at lunch, when they kept getting Jared in trouble, and didn’t settle down ~ I said, “OK, each of you get a minute in “the slammer.” 

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Of course they didn’t want their faces to show when I took their mug shots.

 

 

 

To their mothers:  If you wonder why Nathan is missing from this lineup ~ he was working ~ or I promise you he would have been there!

 

Even though it is tough for a three-year-old to not jump on mattresses when there are five lined up on the floor – he stayed away from them and played nicely 99.9% of the time.

 

Jana and Diana asked to help me make supper.  Since I was making a double batch of cornbread, I gave each one the ingredients to make one batch.

 

We put some in cupcake papers…

 

…and the rest into a baking dish.

 

 

 

Warm cornbread and a casserole of macaroni and hamburger in a tomato base was a hit with the children.

 

After supper, Gloria and Ian watched the archery shoot.

 

Hey, Dad, look what Hezekiah is shooting – Cerwin’s compound.

 

Diana

 

Jana

 

Jared and Gloria spent many hours moving small stones in a flower bed that I gave them permission to play in – since I never took time to plant many flowers in that area this year.

 

 

If he was alone, Jared preferred my patio flowerbed, because there are a lot of stones.  I gave him permission on occasion – because he played so nicely.  I figure I can “fix” it when they all go home this morning.  There is a plant just under his left elbow that may not revive.