Country Grandma Came For A Visit

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Country Grandma came for a visit at the end of January to meet Hattie and get in some quality time with her grandchildren. She breezed in on a Friday and left again on Monday making it a very short weekend. However, what we lacked in physical time was made up for in quality of how our time was spent. We had so much fun together! The kids kept Grandma really busy; reading a book to Molly (and consequently all the kids who flocked over), playing Legos with Charlie (and consequently all the kids who flocked over), doing a puzzle with Alanna (and conseque... get it?!?), holding and snuggling Hattie, and then circling back up to the top of the rotation to fulfill the next child's request. "Grandma, and then can you..." was a pretty popular phrase for a few days!! The kids kept Grandma busy during the day, and Matt and I succeeded at keeping Jean up late just chatting - our favorite activity. :) 

Alanna asked Grandma to paint her fingernails rainbow colored which turned out very cute. Grandma even painted two of Charlie's nails, one blue and one green - Seahawks colors. Charlie told me after school on Monday that a few of his classmates were laughing at his fingernail polish and calling it stupid. He said he told them to stop, but they didn't. He told them to stop again and they did with a little help from his teacher and some lost recess time. Dang kids. Charlie was thrilled with his polish. It's not like he has his fingernails painted all the time and wears dresses for pete's sake. He was just so excited about the colors. Of course someone robbed him of some of the joy of that. He didn't ask me to take it off, though, so it must not have rattled him too much. I'm so thankful for that! In fact, as I type this two weeks later, I actually tried to scratch a little bit of it off today. He caught me red-handed and pulled his hand away so I couldn't get any more of it off. It's at the typical Julie stage where just a little bit is left right in the middle of the fingernail. But he still likes it!

Grandma brought a new book for each kiddo which were read numerous times together. Honestly, once we got home from Eugene on Friday, Jean didn't leave the house again until we left for the airport on Monday afternoon with the exception of one trip to the cul-de-sac to ride bikes and walk for a bit late on Saturday afternoon. Matt and I even snuck out for a short walk on Sunday afternoon by ourselves while Grandma watched the kids. We just had so much fun together. Have I mentioned that? We always do whenever we have visitors, but Grandmas and Grandpas are extra special visitors. 

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