One More Afternoon

Emma is Grandma Jones' helper in the kitchen

She found that peeling a hard boiled egg was very fun

She also plucked the grapes off the stem,
washed them and got them ready for our lunch

Matthew is blowing our Thomas whistle
He and Chris really struggled over sharing the trains

so Matthew found the roundhouse which was
underneath the train table and
was content to put the trains in and out the doors

After all of her hard work in the kitchen,
Emma was exhausted
and took a little nap on the couch

Chris was just a little too rough
on Matthew (sharing the trains is really tough!)
so he had to sit in Time-out
until the 3-minute timer beeped
But he sat there and took his punishment like
the wee man that he is
(I call him my little Spanky)
Do you remember the roundhouse Matthew
was playing with?
After Chris's Time-Out was over,
he simulated a situation with all the trains (Thomas, Percy, Donald and Molly)
wherein they were ALL naughty and had to
be sent to the roundhouse for their Time-Outs! After lunch, we went outside to play
Emma wanted to try her hand at pitching
(since she is such a great hitter)
and Christopher was up to bat --
Emma was a very good pitcher as well as batter!

Christopher played trucks on the deck for awhile

and then Grandpa showed him this neat helicopter
(only $1.00 at the Dollar Store)
Grandpa was the only one who could make it fly
Emma, who is very mechanical,
watched carefully and had a tiny bit of success

We enjoyed a chocolate pudding snack
outside on the deck --
Do you think Christopher likes chocolate?
Our three Grand Rapids grandchildren
(soon to be our El Paso grandchildren)

"Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day, and now the day was complete." Marcy DeMaree

I hope my little ones take happy memories of grandma and grandpa with them to El Paso. I hope they will remember how much we enjoyed these times together. This was our last day to share for quite awhile. But I can always look forward to one more afternoon . . .