Four For Four

My little customer at Muncie New Year's Eve community event.

Road kill at the Children's Museum, a reckless teenage driver.

Young ice carver apprentices at the Indiana Ice Studio.

The ice sculptor himself.

As agreed by taking on the 365 Project challenge, every Sunday I will be posting the choice photos of the week, aiming for one a day, but not bound by any legal requirement nor phear of phailure, just photos phor phun, people! Don't need to be perphect either.

(I think I prefer the Spanish spelling: fotos, es más fácil!)

Meemaw Days and More

I may still be recovering from two grandma-days. Is that why I had to take a nap upon arrival yesterday and slept in this morning?

Friday--visit to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis with all four nietos (grandkids) + la hija (the daughter) Leah. She was such a help, I'll never go without her!

Saturday--the robotics kickoff, a most exciting event for all the FIRST teams, when they watch the simulcast, find out about the new game, and receive their kit of parts! Then they go into cybernation, robot-mode...well, whatever it is they are doing, it is off in their own world for six weeks until they ship Robot X (no name yet) and emerge once again pale, bedraggled, brain-drained, ready to collapse. Actually it's not that bad: they enjoy every invigorating minute together, even the all-nighters towards the end.
Only the older boys went with me to watch the presentation of the new game--Lunacy! It would appear that the game gets harder every year. Warning: the participants may all end up lunatics.

You may hear from me more often as Mike is en la luna, increasingly involved in this moon project. However, I go back to work tomorrow and may have forgotten how absorbing and consuming that can be.
Meanwhile, I have today.

P.S.: Did I forget to say I took the grandboys to see uncle Stephan's new ice studio?

Glimpses of the Grandboys

Skye (7/29/97), Malachi (11/21/98), Elijah (1/27/05)

Lest the boys feel left out, here are a few of the many recent photo-memories.


Upland Labor Day festival purchases. (Mom isn't going to like these boy-favorites.)

Grandparents Day at Desoto Elementary--Malachi.

Malachi--Saturday Soccer

Skye making churros at Grandma's after school.










Skye--Upland Cardinals quarterback

Crazy Grandma

That's my new title.

How did I earn it?

It happened thus:

On the very day of Skye's 11th birthday, July 29th, I took the two older cousins (grandsons Skye and Malachi) to the Indianapolis Children's Museum. The GPS Mike gave me for my birthday is now a wonderful friend, but "Nancy" (or was it "Cindy"?) didn't tell me how to find the ICM free parking. I drove around the possible circuit twice before I spotted it. When I did, I got so excited repeating crazily "Free parking!" What I really meant was "We found it!"

From then on, the slightest hint of funny behavior on the part of this senior citizen has been deemed insanity by the younger generation, such as LOL (my laugh has always been different), or when I bought a kiddie meal for myself, the toy was for Elijah, of course, the youngest grandson who wasn't with us.

The label has stuck, and again this weekend I was accused of craziness.

I can't help it, they make me crazy. After all, insanity is hereditary--you get it from your kids (and grandkids)!

Be that as it may...(as Pastor Jay says) I am crazy about them, and very grateful for the good times spent together.

The activities of this weekend included:

--visiting garden train display

One of our friends, a member of the Indiana Large Scale Railroaders, had an open house.

--building and programming a Lego robot

Skye's gift from grandpa which will keep on giving all year, and had both older boys entertained and away from video games and TV for hours.

--swimming at Taylor Lake

--racing the trike and skateboard down the driveway