Younger Folks

[Bibbyman]

Mary took Brooke to the doctor today to see about her earache.  Turned out as we expected, ear infection.

Son Gabe had helped me saw this morning but the weather kept getting worse so we knocked off at noon. Mary and Brooke got home about 1:30.  I was watching the old John Wayne movie The Horse Soldiers when they come in.  They had bought lunch in town and Brooke sat at her TV stand and eat it while helping me watch the movie.  In the train scenes she noted the similarity of this movie and an old silent film with Buster Keaton "The General" and re-told some of the funny parts of the movie. 

When "The Horse Soldiers" movie ended,  I looked through our DVD library and come up with a DVD I recorded the evening Turner Classic Movies had about four Buster Keaton movies in a row.  Brooke had watched most of The General when I recorded it.

We watched The General again and I helped explain to her some of the words she didn't know and other things she couldn't relate to – like what a telegraph was.  She watched close and picked up a lot more from the movie this time.  She laughed and laughed.

When the movie ended, another Buster Keaton movie started.  Brooke soon got restless and asked,  "Can we watch a movie?"  I said, "This is a movie.  You enjoyed the other one.  Don't you think you'd have fun watching this one too?"  She says,  "I like having fun.  Just not all at one time."  :

[Roxie]

Our fourth grandchild was born yesterday.  His name is James and he weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces and was 21 inches long.  He has a head full of dark curly hair and cubby cheeks.  I'm in love.........

[Patty]

 8) 8) 8)  Congratulations !

Grandchild #4 is just as special as numbers 1, 2 & 3 !  Enjoy the little fella, he will grow up quickly. 

[Faron]

Congratulations! 8) 8)  But without pictures it didn't happen. ;)

[beenthere]

Grand children are great...they grow up and that is when the phone rings, and a grand daughter asks for some help with a science project..  build/make a piano !!

Needs enough notes to play a simple tune..5 or 6.

I've been scrounging around my shop looking for bits and pieces that we might throw together tomorrow to come up with a tunable clone of a piano likeness, and something I can guide a 12 yr old to make herself.

Any ideas would be appreciated..

(I will post a pic or two)

[Roxie]

I have pictures!  He's one week old today.....

James

[pigman]

He is a mighty handsome one Roxie. 8)

[Norm]

Awww what a cutie.

[asy]

Rox, he's GORGEOUS!!!    8) 8) 8)

Congrats!!!

Cowboy Bob'll have a whole parcel of little helpers come summer! HOORAY!!

Need a photo of them all together now, that'd be cool!

asy :D

[Bibbyman]

I think I said before that our granddaughters don't ask for much.  They've never got a new toy every time we went to town and such like some kids come to expect. 

But a couple of weeks ago Brooke went with Mary to Wal-Mart and she noticed a beach ball she really wanted.  She didn't ask Mary to get it for her but she did start to save money to buy it.  When she came home, she asked me for a job that I would pay her to do.  So I got her to clean out the leaves that had built up around the front entrance and paid her a dollar.

Last Thursday Mary and I were in Wal-Mart getting stuff and I remembered that Alex wanted some AAA batteries for some music thing-a-mabob so I pulled a four pack off the display rack.  I told Mary if we got this for Alex we should get the ball for Brooke and we did.

When Brooke got home from school Mary gave her the ball and she was a very happy girl.  She went right out and played with it. 

I was out doing some stuff and when I came in,  Brooke was on Mary's lap (although she's much too big) with the sad story on her face and in her lap.  The ball as already busted.  :'(

Mary later told me that Brooke sobbed for a good twenty minutes.  She knew it couldn't be fixed because she'd done tried fixing balls with tape and staples and it didn't work.  Mary asked her if she thought a cookie would help.  Brooke said she'd try.  She got the cookie and returned to Mary's lap to eat it.  Afterwards she said it helped a little.  After a bit more lap setting she told Mary, "Thanks for comforting me." And got down and went on her way.

She's some kid.  I think we'll find her another better ball next time we go to town.

[beenthere]

Bibby
Sounds like she is learning her tricks methods from her grand daddy.... :D :D :D

[Patty]

Roxie!

The little guy sure is special. I don't know how I missed the picture until now. Give him a big hug for me. 

[Bibbyman]

 

Update on the busted ball and upset kid. 

This evening I figured out how to make a fix.  I started the process by inserting a balloon in through the hole.  Sister Alex took over, as older sisters often do, and inflated the balloon and tied it off.  Fixed and one happy kid.  Note the stem of the balloon sticking out.

Once fixed,  I asked Brooke, "Now. Who's the smartest man you've ever known?"  She said, "You are, Grandpa!"  Just give her another five years.

[isawlogs]

Once fixed,  I asked Brooke, “Now. Who’s the smartest man you’ve ever known?”  She said, “You are, Grandpa!”  Just give her another five years.

  Figure it will take that long  eh eh    :D

[Haytrader]

As long as we are bragging on grandkids....... ;)
This is Sydney, one of four that I have to brag about.
She happens to be a KU fan. ROCK CHALK Jayhawk.

[WDH]

Roxie and Haytrader,

Y'all did good ;D.

[Patty]

She has a sparkle in her eye just like Grampa, Haytrader.   What a cute little girl. 


I see alot of Mary in Alex, and Brooke is a sweetie Bibby. You are lucky to have them, as they are sure lucky to have you and Mary.

[Bibbyman]

She has a sparkle in her eye just like Grampa, Haytrader.   What a cute little girl. 


I see alot of Mary in Alex, and Brooke is a sweetie Bibby. You are lucky to have them, as they are sure lucky to have you and Mary.

Alex and Mary a few years back.

Alex, now 9, is almost the same height as Mary.   :

[WDH]

Looking back over this thread, I realized a serious oversight on my part...........You did good too, Bibby 8).

[Faron]

I don't think I stand a chance against these grandkids.  I have a pair of granddaughters in this bunch who are 3 and 4 year old cousins. They were here the other evening.  The three year old came to me kind of whimpering.  "Cousin and I fell down, and I hit my head!"  I asked her, " Think if I kiss that bump it will make it feel better?"  She believed it would, and I did, and she went back much happier.  Half a minute later I heard giggling, and both came back.  The 4 year old crawled on my lap, still snickering, and said, " When we fell, I landed on my butt!  Are you going to kiss it for me too?"  :D  They dissolved in gales of laughter as I declined, and offered to find a switch for both of them. ;D  I thought Chris must have prompted them, but a little investigation revealed the 3 year old hatched up the plot and enlisted her older cousin. :

[Tom]

Just think.  They'll be wives one day.  Feel sorry for the poor slobs that win them.  :D

[Bibbyman]

Glad you brought this topic up again. 

The girls are getting older and don't have those funny little stories they did when they were small.

Here is the kind of thing that goes on now.

School has been filling their little empty heads with all kinds of mush.  Brooke has become very environmentally conscious.  She made an argument to Mary the other day that we should get solar panels to generate electricity to run our cloths dryer.   Mary informed her we already had a solar cloths dryer right in our front yard – a cloths line! 

[Nate Surveyor]

Just think.  They'll be wives one day.  Feel sorry for the poor slobs that win them.  :D

It is nice to be so considerate!

He he he!

(We have 3 purdy daughters 9, 6 & 4)

Nate

[Bibbyman]

School was out for the summer for the girls last Friday.  Most of the week they've been planning where we should go on our summer vacation.  Mary has given them the task of researching and making a list of places and things they'd like to do.  Alex has manned the PC looking up vacations spots in Missouri surrounding states on the internet. 

Mary has also challenged them to look up the costs for the activity, lodging, travel expense, food, etc.   Most of this has fallen on Alex but Brooke is helping too.  She made a list of what she was going to eat for breakfast, dinner and supper and the estimated costs.  The first morning she was going to have biscuits and gravy.  The next pancakes and so on.  For dinner she was going to have a corndog but if they didn't have corndogs (not all places do) then she'd have pizza.  Mary commented that she was her Grandpa's child.  She was always worried about what she was going to eat and when she was going to eat it.

[Roxie]

Cowboy Bob (A.K.A. Granpa) took our four year old grandson, Nathan, on his first fishing trip.  There were a few tense moments as an aversion to worms had to be overcome, but then Granpa stopped crying and they had a good time.  They proudly display the catch of the day!