Joy of Grandparenting

Nicholas sometimes gets confused about extended family. This is hardly surprising. Steve's family, who we see more often, has many Great Aunts and Great Uncles, and many of his father's cousins, but everyone is introduced as "Aunt" or "Uncle." There are only a couple of children, by Steve's cousin, and we have only seen them a few times.

On my sinde of the family Nick has many Aunts and Uncles, but he doesn't see them as often. There are also many friends of family that he sees just about as often as the real family, and it starts to get confusing after awhile, too.

Yesterday I had a doctor's appointment - just a check up - and Lillian came to watch the boys. When I returned I expected to find them as I always do, TV on, and eyes glazed over with the joy that is Grammy. But instead the TV was off. They had, apparently, spent the entire time playing "Airplane."

"Airplane" is a game where Nicholas makes everyone sit in their seats, fastens everyone's seat belts, and then talks everyone through a very short plane trip. "We're taking off! We're landing!"

"Tell your mother where we went on the plane!" Lillian urged Nick.

"New York!" He shouted.

Lillian obviously wasn't satisfied with the abreviated answer, and went on to add "We visited his Gramma Jean, and his Grampa Charlie - "

Nick shouted "And Gramma Linda!"

Linda - you've been promoted.