Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Family 21 - April 6

We (E, J and I) had the opportunity to spend some quality time with C's family today.
We had plans to go to Grandma 21's house after lunch to have tea with a family friend DM, C's babysitter when he was a little boy. She has been so loving to our family, sending birthday cards every year since C was a boy and knitting beautiful baby afghans for both our children. It was wonderful to see her and get to (finally) introduce E. 
After our tea, we stayed the rest of the afternoon and planned to stay at Grandma and Grandpa 21's for dinner. C's cousin D is living at the 21 house while he finishes his university degree and J loves him! 
I had to run home quickly before dinner to flip some laundry and when I came back, J and D were sitting at the dining room table, just colouring. I could hear them talking about their combined effort picture.  It was the cutest thing!!




** Explanation required** The numbers associated with Grandparents was a J thing. He's big into numbers and letters, it's kind of "his thing." 
Both Grandmas are called "Grandma" and so J devised this way of distinguishing them between each other. He calls them Grandma 21 (C's mom) and Grandma 44 (my mom). It refers to their house numbers. Both Grandmas thought it was cute and it stuck!
The men go by Grandpa and Papa so we have no confusion there, and if you mention the "man" he'll know which grandparent set you mean but if you're just talking about "Grandma", he always asks "which Grandma?"

2 comments:

  1. That J is just too cute and smart.......those nicknames make perfect sense!

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  2. Thanks for number explanation! That is just the smartest thing I have ever heard! J is a genius, you do know that, right? :)

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