Where is Goldbug?

by chuckofish

On Monday Lottie’s parents took her to the orthopedist to have her cast put on, so they dropped the wee laddie off at my house. We had so much fun together. We read Richard Scarry books, taking turns reading.

We went upstairs (usually off-limits) to search for more Richard Scarry books in his Dad’s old room. Then he asked if he could go in my room because that’s where the mini trampoline is as well as my practically-an-antique stationery bike.

He showed me how he could do jumping jacks on the trampoline (40!) and he did 20 push-ups on the floor, demonstrating what they learned in gym at school. I said I did not think I could do jumping jacks on the trampoline and he said, “That’s because you’re an old girl and my grandma.”

He jumped several times from the trampoline to the bed, landing on his knees, and I prayed, “Oh Lord, please don’t let him fall and break his arm!”

Then we watched YouTube videos of Matchbox cars and action figures. Fascinating!

After viewing these educational and thrilling videos, we ate lunch. I suggested a toasted cheese sandwich, but he said he preferred Easy Mac. Luckily I had some, which we made together. I had a tuna sandwich. He asked me if I like tuna, which is a fish. I said, yes, I do. We said grace and chatted about Vacation Bible School, which he admitted to enjoying, especially when the boys beat the girls at games.

After lunch he asked to get the old Legos out and we got two bins which are kept in the Florida room, discovering that the room had flooded during the torrential rains of the day before. Pappy was in the yard with the man who was turning on the sprinklers. He grumbled and went back to the basement where he had been hiding all morning.

We were playing with the Legos, looking for heads to put on all the headless men, when his parents arrived, all in a rush to go say goodbye to her sister who was leaving to go back to Texas. I heard the laddie say to his Dad as they crossed the lawn that he didn’t want to leave, “that he could stay here forever.”

I didn’t get any of the things done which I had planned to do that day, but who cares. I think I won an Oscar for Best Mamu.