It was a full house! The grandkids came to rehearse songs for the children's church Christmas program. At least that's what the adults thought. The kids? Their little minds screamed, "Let's play!"
"Let's run and jump." Run down the hall, ravage the toys in the back bedroom. Jump on the couch and off the couch. The cushions falling off the couch, too! They went to the back bedroom where the toys are. Full of grins of discovery, Jayden struggled back to the family room with the two toddler-tall elves I'd hid behind the door, and a curtain. There were smiles on ALL faces, even the elves were impish.
The dads sat at the kitchen table with their hamburger sandwiches. The mom's were busy fixing said hamburgers. And giving in to kid wishes for water. Then comes in uncle. Tickle fest time, "How many ribs do you have, Alayna?" Giggle, squirm, kick, laugh.
To add to house fullness, Ian and girlfriend Nikki popped in to work on the outdoor wood project we'd been doing all fall. It's about completed, yay!
We practiced "The B-I-B-L-E" with sign language, and "Prince of Peace". Jacob, too young at 3 years old to do it with them, practiced his trotting interference. Between the teaching parents and the practicing elementary kids he pranced and trotted, back and forth, like a toy wooden soldier without a major!
After a bit of patience on my part, I said to his dad, "Clinton, you need to come get this boy." Well, lo and behold, little Jacob put two and two together, lickety-split, got up on the couch, sat next to me, arms stiff at his sides, and put on an innocent face. I laughed so hard!
They were set free. Then they saw the adults eating. They tasted bits of my hamburger. My thing is, "Try it. If you don't like it, you can go spit it in the trash can." Jayden wanted pickles. Jayden loves fried pickles. Lilly saw Jayden. She wanted a bowl of pickles like him and Alayna. Whoops, her first one came out into the trash can, that was the end of that bowlful. John said, "Tastebuds prevailed over peer pressure."
They ran into the garage to see what Ian was drilling. Well, all three men were out there now, and there were three drills, but there were also three kids. Who got the drills? The kids.
Alayna had a drill to make a pilot hole, she didn't have enough pressure so Clint put one finger on top of the drill to encourage it to go deeper.
Jayden was on the floor drilling where Ian had told him to put the next screw. He'd never drilled before. He didn't know about the upcoming vibration in his hands. He giggled. He looked up at me proudly, all excited, "That tickled. I did it." Turned to Ian, "Can I do another?"
Wanting to be like Jayden and Alayna, Lilly was at the other end of the board that was laying across the table, asking for a drill, so I got her one but it had a Phillips head on it. So, while she wasn't looking, I poked it into a pre-existing hole and told her to pull the trigger. When her dad, Clint, looked back around at her, he was impressed, "You drilled that big hole with a screwdriver tip???? Wow, Lilly!"
Shhh, we tell no secrets, we tell no lies!
We're all in discovery mode. They discover adult things. We discover new joys.
We stay at play, easily, when it's a full house!
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