Today I am able to visit with some of my grandchildren that I haven't seen for a couple of months. Already there are big changes with all of them. Mykael is now a year older and was excited to show & tell what she got for her birthday. She had to put the new black top G-pa & G-ma gave her. It has sparkly silver hearts around the neck and waist. She is a bigger helper with making a great looking salad with lots of colors, and it went great with the chicken & broccoli casserole we all love to eat.
Jaden is taller and soon to pass his sister in height and his hair is growing in almost black now. Today he was drawing a joker for an art project for school and he did a GREAT JOB. I think there is some talent there to be developed. I'm not surprised!
Ashton came running home from church and into the house calling out for me, "Grandma, where are you?" Then throwing his arms around me and giving me great big hugs, "I love you so-o-o- much. I missed you! Nice to be needed and loved, I must say. He said he ran all the way from church as fast as he could.
Elias last night was helping me crochet and decided he needed to take the paper off of the next skein of yarn (before I was ready for it). Then I calmly told him "Please don't take the paper off of the yarn, I don't want you to do that." He lifted my hair away from my arm and I bent down over to him, he whispered in my ear, "spss - spss -spss, I need to take the paper off of the yarn because I want to. When he saw me laughing at what he had done, He got a great grin on his face, turned his head a little to the side and looked at me out of the corner of his eyes. I have whispered in my grandchildren's ears 'little love secrets' since they were born. It was so funny to me to have one of my little ones whisper in my ear for the 1st time. He really tickeled my ear!
Little Dylan just gets chubbier and more smiley and is so ticklish you can hardly pick him up without him 'grunting-a-giggle-turn-into-an-outright-laugh'. And he is solidly heavy rolls of muscle covered with so soft skin. Sometimes it sounds like he is crying when in realitly he is finding different pitches to use his loud voice - even if it does sound like a cry.
Seeing Alisha and Genevieve clear from the other side of the country is a great experience! Mommy looks good and healthy with a cute new hair due and Little Genevieve smiles more and more and more ... she is just like sunshine anytime of the day! She recognized us this time and I think that it has helped to hear our voices over Skype and once in a while, see our faces when we hook up the camera. She hasn't been afraid of us at all and lets us hold her and play with her alot. She really seems to be very social with all her cousins and Aunt and Uncle and G-ma & G-pa. I can't believe that she is already pulling herself up to stand at furniture when she only started crawling a couple of weeks ago. What a fast learner! We've enjoyed her very much! Mommy too! Thanks for sharing, Eric !!!
Well, we all made Yummy Famous Cookies tonight and each helped with a little part of it, especially the tasting part. YUM YUM. If there are any left - we might share with YOU.
So my children, here is a little piece of info on how your DAD is progressing these days. For his upcoming trip, he replaced the batteries in the walkie-talkies. Into the 1st he's holding (in his right hand) up to his mouth, he clicks it on and says:
"Hello! Can you hear me?"
With the other in his left hand (bringing it up to his mouth), he clicks it on and says:
" Yes! You're coming in loud and clear!"
At that point, as I am taking cookies out of the oven, I turn to look at him and he realizes that there were two witnesses to this and he get's this funny look on his face as I said to him:
"WOW that was a really good test for the new batteries."
Alisha's comments was:
"Good thing he wasn't in the other room!"
That's okay Hunny, we all have our moments!
The tour was wonderful with Tom and Jess and the kids. They dressed for the occasion and Whitney wore her Princess dress. She seemed very much at home in the Temple and her comments were as if she already knew the importance of where we were.
