OmmyBomb's Grand-girls (Rusty's)

First pic below is Ainsley opening a Christmas gift at Clint and Jessica's house, it's 2023.

Ainsley, who's only 2, and is slight as a feather, and she's so sweet and quiet you can hardly hear her.  But instead of GrammyPam, she calls me, "OmmyBomb".   

                     

Noelle is chewing on gummy noses, ears, and teeth in the pic above.  She's laughing because she's got vampire teeth between her lips

Noelle asked me, "Come here," and leads me from the kitchen through the family room..  Turns out she wanted to clarify who's who in the hallway of pictures.  

And, boy, does she get it right, "Is that grandpa John when he was a teenager?"  

She points to a black and white photo of a girl toddler sitting at the table looking at her birthday cake with one lit candle.

"And that's you when you were one years old?" 

And the grandkids love the collage of each of them sitting on grandpa's lap reading them a story book.  Sweet!

Alayna knew we were coming that December afternoon in 2021 when we dropped off a couple of bags of stuff for Rusty and Amanda.   The kids were like little blitz of sparking energy!  

But Alayna had to put on her candy cane striped dress to show off to GrammyPam, her mother said.  It was one we'd purchased for her.  Her dark looks complimented the dress, so Christmassy!

I pulled suckers out of my pocket to pass around and bribed them into sitting next to me.  Of course, they loved it.  Then...they got excited, restless, and we had to do some escaping spider tickles.   You know what that is, right?  The hands come out with wiggling fingers and start heading towards any child, LOL, and creates laughing fits.

Noelle mosied off to play alone, but after awhile I heard a little girl's 2 y.o. voice call, "Gramm-ee Pa-am, come play."  Absolutely, of course, we played Peppa Pig and Moo Cow, LOL.

Now, it's Christmas 2023.  Alayna came up to me, head titled up my way, and announced, "I have 3 loose teeth."  and she points to a vacant spot in her row of teeth, "and one is missing."  

Typical, she's the right age.  I smile.  She continues, proudly with a big grin.

"I shot it out with a nerf gun."