Fun with the St. Louis Kids!

So we got to be with the kids from August 1st until the 11th. What a glorious and exhausting week! Clark is 8, Josie is 6, Margot is 5, Vivy is 3 and Lenna is 1+. They are happy busy active little kids and we love them like crazy.

In the pics that follow, you’ll get a fun idea of how we spent our days. LOTS of reading and taking walks and visits to parks and play areas, puzzles, games, fabric sorting, some ice cream, some cookies, and lots of fun meals and sticky fingers. We also watched all of the Harry Potter movies with Clark and Josie while the littles napped and Margot watched her favorite princess movies in another room. Clark has almost finished reading all of the HP books. He’s a reading maniac! And the girls are right behind him. It really was a glorious 10 days!

Every night Clark and I would go out to the front porch lights to catch moths and bugs to feed to Frogzilla.

A summer storm interrupted our back yard weanie roast.

We all went to the Back-to-School activity for the older kids.

Hatchet got a big thumbs up from Clark! We ordered the rest of Gary Paulsen’s books for him to keep the adventures going.

On our last night before the parents’ return, we took the kids out for burgers, and then to Ted Drew’s frozen custard. YUMMMM!

On a Saturday night, after a fun trip to a Wendy’s for burgers and ice cream, we loaded everyone back into the car and headed home to get the kids cleaned up for church in the morning. Clark wanted a shower, so he went first. Then I helped strip down the 4 little blonde-headed girlies and got their slippery little bodies lined up in a tub full of warm water, legs crossed, facing me with a few bath toys like ducks and mermaids bobbing round them. One by one, I helped shampoo their hair and wash them down. As I bent over the tub, Margot, age 5, kept looking down my t-shirt, studying my chest, trying to make sense of cleavage. Finally she looked up at me and said, “GrAnn, does your butt crack go all the way around to the front??”

Reunited with Mom and Dad!

We had a last day or so with them all before flying back to Utah. Oh, what a fun week! But we are old and we feel it. Still, I’m grateful for any time we get with any of the grandkids. These are OUR PEOPLE and we love them.