Younger Folks

[Bibbyman]

Brooke, in the middle of the first grade, helped Grandma make a grocery list.

Grandma helped her with the first two but she did all the rest on her own!

STRAWBERRIES
WHIP CREAM
BISCUTS
SPUGETI
SOSAGO
TOMATOSOSE
HAM
BENSE
CORNBERAD
FRID POTATO
GORLIC BRAD
PORK
EVOO
ZICENY
BOTTOR
FLEWOR
EGGS

[Modat22]

I haven't had the drive to make kids yet and I'm not sure its gonna happen. Miss moose wanted 1 for awhile but I'm so selfish, like my toys and sleep I just didn't want to make em. Besides I'm afraid my kids would put me through what I put my folks through.

[pigman]

Bibbyman, you did not have to print out the words. Brooke writes better than I can. 8)

[sawguy21]

I haven't had the drive to make kids yet and I'm not sure its gonna happen. Miss moose wanted 1 for awhile but I'm so selfish, like my toys and sleep I just didn't want to make em. Besides I'm afraid my kids would put me through what I put my folks through.

:D :D :D :D :D My sister was going at it with her stepson. After mom and I left, I asked "Did any of that sound familiar?" "Yes it sure as h**l did. I feel for her, I know what she is going through but she is FINALLY getting a taste of her own medicine" First time I ever heard mom use profanity.

[Bibbyman]

An old farmer we've known for years has us do some sawing for him from time to time.  One summer we sawed out a large barn for him.  It seemed like he was at our place at least once a week and every time there had to be a lengthy visit. 

The girls were off school for the summer and they were always around someplace.  He didn't miss a chance to visit with them and often brought them something – usually something like a watermelon.

We knew his son really well too.  He was the same age as our two sons – now in their mid-thirties.  Although his son had had a full-time "cohabitant" for a number of years, they were not married and had no kids.

Well, one day the old farmer got off on the subject of not having any grandchildren.  You could tell it was something he wanted.  As he went on,  the more he told how about the conversations he had with his son about his shortfall. He got down to being rather blunt about it.  By DanG,  he wanted grandchildren before he was too old to enjoy them.  Besides, his son and "cohabitant" were not getting any younger.  The clock was ticking there too.

That was a couple of years back and he's still not got any grandchildren.  His son has a new "cohabitant" now.  We'll have to see.

[Max sawdust]

My Wife and I were married 10 years before having children.  I am up now at 3AM because of children :D
To each his own.  But, it is my opinion children make life more complete.
We have two boys one almost 3 the other 5 months.  I think I need to hang on it is going to be an interesting ride :D
Here is a couple of pics of the older one.  (Got two toy chainsaws for Christmas.)

[Roxie]

Oh my gosh!  He's adorable!! 

My Grandson, who just turned two came for a visit last Saturday.  I was talking to him on the phone just prior to them leaving to come up, and I said, "Are you coming to see me?"  He said, "I'll come see you."  Do you believe it?!!  The correct conversion of the pronoun, and he just turned two!  So, they finally arrive, and he walks into the house, and he looks at a picture I had in the dining room, and said, "Violin."  I told Cowboy Bob to call Guiness....the boy can recognize a VIOLIN!   :D :D

The only thing that is better than having children, is having Grandchildren!!

[asy]

The only thing that is better than having children, is having Grandchildren!!

That's coz ya can give em BACK!

They go HOME at the end of the day!

asy :D

[Max sawdust]

Oh my gosh!  He's adorable!! 

My Grandson, who just turned two came for a visit last Saturday.  I was talking to him on the phone just prior to them leaving to come up, and I said, "Are you coming to see me?"  He said, "I'll come see you."  Do you believe it?!!  The correct conversion of the pronoun, and he just turned two!  So, they finally arrive, and he walks into the house, and he looks at a picture I had in the dining room, and said, "Violin."  I told Cowboy Bob to call Guiness....the boy can recognize a VIOLIN!   :D :D

The only thing that is better than having children, is having Grandchildren!!

Thanks ;D
His new word is triceratops (Wrong spelling I am sure but you know the Dino..)
My brother and sister are 15+ years older than me so I was able to enjoy their kids and give them back ;D  I do look forward to grand kids some day for that very reason :D :D
Max

[ohsoloco]

Last year my dad went to my nephews Pinewood Derby with the cub scouts (my brother is one of the leaders of the troop), and saw that their track was in sorry shape.  So he volunteered to build a new one.  He bought the sheet of plywood and told me where it was  :  I put a lot of work in to that track, and they finally came to pick it up on Saturday.  As I was explaining to my brother how it all goes together, my nephew was wandering around the garage with his usual string of "what's this?"  He decided to stack some pine boards on a dolly, and then he found the old cast iron damper from my stove pipe.  "What's this?"

"That's a damper" I told him.

"Where does the water come from?"

[Bibbyman]

Everyone has "their" tools.  We've got probably a half dozen hammers around the place but when I ask for "my hammer", everyone knows the one I'm talking about.

A while back I came to realize that Brooke too had "her tools".   

Since a toddler she's been fascinated by the big nail clippers.    I've seen her use them for all kinds of crafts and cutting – from cutting string to making a start on a stubborn candy bar wrapper.  They are normally kept on the edge of the bookshelf in reach of my chair and she's pretty good about using them and bringing them back.  But if they're not there,  all you have to do is ask Brooke and she'll go hunt them up.  She knows where they went too.

It's the same for the pencil pointer.  After all,  the #2 lead pencil is the main tool of a practicing first grader.  But she is always quick to refurbish the points on any dull pencil she finds.  The pointer moves around the house a bit and sometimes gets under things.  But, again, if you ask Brooke, she'll know where it was used last.



I got to thinking about it...  The nail clippers is the one cutting tool she is allowed to use and the pointer is the one power tool she is authorized to use.  Little wonder she keep track of them.  ;)

[sawguy21]

 :D :D :D Thanks for bringing this thread up again. It is a lot of fun.

[Bibbyman]

Mary was helping the girls get ready for school the other day – (think Marine Corps Boot Camp) when Brooke got to questioning Mary about what time they had to leave to meet the bus and what time the bus got there, etc.  She's not studied time in school yet but she can do alright on the digital clocks but the ones with hour hands don't work too well for her.  She can get the hours is the fat hand is near a number but the minute hand defeats her.

After the question and answer session,  she asked,  "But Grandma,  when does the "tills" become "afters"?"

[wiam]

[sawguy21]

All his buddies keepin' him company 8) 8)

[jon12345]

My addition to the younger folks generation can be seen to the left  

He is about 18 months, and into everything.  I didn't know how I'd do bein a father, but I definitely enjoy watchin him grow and learn. and learnin quit a bit myself  :

Since he was about a year old, he has had a pet peeve that he can't put his cup down on a table without havin a coaster under it. : He has about a 15 word vocabulary but what really amazes me is he out talks me  :D He loves typin and clickin the mouse too,   I'll try to keep him off FF   :D :D

[wiam]

That picture was taken last night.  That is my youngest Robert. He will be seven in a month. The bear is George.  I was not sure if the flash would wake him but we thought it would make a cool pic.

Will

[crtreedude]

Hector and his family are currently living with Harold (Harold lived with Geraldo for a couple of months) while Hector is rebuilding his house which is next door. It has taken a lot of pressure off Hector since he needed to get into the house before school started, but as all projects - it got bigger as time passed.

Hector's youngest is about 3 1/2 and because Chrissy is from California and Hector is Costa Rican, she is mixing her languages - big time. Sounds a lot like Harold except the accent is perfect in both languages. It is pretty funny.

She calls their house the "broken casa" and everyone else is using that phrase too.  :D

[Bibbyman]

Everything's new again.

We've been running out of things for the kids to watch on the tube in the evenings.  We don't let them watch a bunch of that mindless cartoon dribble.  We've got DISH but in the early evening, there's not much on they can watch that we'd let them watch.

So the two evenings back I pulled out a DVD of the first 8 episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies TV show.  At first Alex kind of snarled up her nose at the old black and white TV show.  But it wasn't long before she started to get interested.  Brooke liked the crazy antics of Jethro and Elly May. They really got into it!  When their dad came home, he noted what was on TV and made a face.  : But then something funny happened and he laughed and started watching.

We watched until it was the girl's bedtime and they didn't want to stop.  After they went to bed I told Mary that tomorrow evening we're going to have to watch the movie that stared Jim Varney as it copied close the first couple of TV shows.

The next evening Alex was soon begging to start up the Beverly Hillbillies again.  I hunted for the DVD of the movie but couldn't find it.  I guess it's loaned out.  So we continued to watch more of the old TV shows.  There were parts where we had to explain things to Alex as she didn't get what the joke was.  Brooke didn't care if she got it or not as long as something funny happened.

This evening as soon as Rachel Ray was over we're starting on the second CD with 8 more show.

That's all we have so we're going to have to get the next set or find the movie or something.

Too bad there is not any good clean shows on TV any more.

[jon12345]

When I was little just about all I was allowed to watch was PBS.  I used to BEG my mom to let me stay up late to watch 'Wild America'   

[Jeff]

AH! Somebody else likes Rachel Ray too eh?  ;D 

[Roxie]

Skid rides are very popular round our parts too!  Here is Cowboy Bob with our Grandson, Nathan.  I love this picture cause they both look like they're right where they wanna be.   

[thecfarm]

Our grand kids like the Beverly Hillbillies too.It was a cheap DVD too.We got 24 episodes for under $6.We buy these at Best Buy.We have the 3 Stoogers,John Wayne,and Bonaza.All that I can think of for now.These are probaly around $6 each.

[Norm]

My nephew who was about 7 at the time came for a visit while I was digging out a ditch with the excavator. He sat on the seat with me and followed on the controls while I ran it. Soon enough he was running it himself without me doing much more than reminding him where to grab the next bite. When we came up to the house he had a big smile while he told his mom how he had ran it all by himself. Not sure who was smiling more though, him or me.

The very first episodes of the Andy Griffith show are great watching. They were running them on satellite but I'll bet you can get copies of them on ebay or somewhere.

[Bibbyman]

The very first episodes of the Andy Griffith show are great watching. They were running them on satellite but I'll bet you can get copies of them on ebay or somewhere.

Yea,  the early episodes where Andy told stories. 

I love the one where Andy was talking to Opie about giving to the collection at school and explaining to him about the one and one-half kids per square mile that needed help. Opie couldn't get over that half a kid.  Andy tells him to forget about the half a boy and Opie says "You just can't forget about something like that."  :D