Today's adventure was with Dude. Lucy had already shown us that she wanted to go to bed as quickly as possible, after dinner was done, so Dude got some quality one on one with Grandpa. Of course, Tristan loves the alphabet and my parents have a couple different sets of letters for him to play with. They loaded certain words onto the train and had imaginary places they had to drop them off. My Dad being a reasonable human being, when it comes to the house temperature at least, so graciously turned on the fire place so the rest of us could thaw out. Dude LOVED the heat. He said that it was warm and sunny like the beach. So, then Dad and Dude started building words that pertained to the beach and anything else that came into his little head. We did go to the beach with my Dad this past summer and Dude LOVED it. He talks about it a lot...
Again, it was one of those moments that you didn't even want to interrupt. It was hard telling Dude he had to go to bed (after he had been up WAY past his bed time) because they were having so much fun. But, he was so good about it and went straight to bed without any fuss... which makes me more inclined to let him stay up later next time :) It was just so sweet watching how much Dad paid attention and how interested in what Tristan had to say. Watching anybody invest such quality time with your child is priceless. It's also really nice to know that my Dad won't say anything to crazy... yes, he has a lot of Don-isms but they aren't detrimental, mostly silly. Thank you Dad for being such a great Dad and Grandpa. These things don't go unnoticed.
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| Well, this picture of Mom and Goose was so precious I couldn't not put it in. |
JVG
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