Alone with Joe, Lucy....AND MAX

Friday night I was asked to babysit while Devon went to his 20th high school reunion. Very odd, my baby son old enough to have a 20 YEAR high school reunion! I ws delighted to spend time with my grandchildren as usual. But this time would be a first: I would have Max too, with pumped mommy's milk in bottles. There were three so I thought there would probably be enough. But as we know, Max is a ravenous little guy. So I HOPED it would be enough. I also hoped we would not have any emergencies like we did a week before when two kids at once were traumatized and me being only one grandma.







Lucy watched Dragon Tales (I was trying something new and she was entranced).


















Joe was upstairs playing video games and Max was playing on his play mat.















About 7 Max was hungry and I warmed the bottle and fed him. At first he was not sure, but I held him like his Mom might, up close and he sucked it right down and fell asleep. He was still sleeping when Devon and Annie got home. Lucy was asleep on the couch and Joe in his bed. So I had new confidence. I am excited about my next adventure with The Three.

Trauma for Joseph and Lucy

I was with Joe for two days and had so much fun. We played pool, Wii sports games and Slug Fest of Xbox. We had some good meals and saw Transformers in Imax at the new theatre in Northgate.

Then Friday night I went to stay with Joe and Lucy while their parents went to see a Mariners game. Joe went to play with a friend and show his new glasses (see photo). He came home about 6:20 screaming and crying and bleeding. He was bleeding on his knee, his elbow and his side. His biggest concern was he had fallen and dropped his Yugio cards on the sidewalk and he asked me to get them. So I ran out and got them and when I came back in he was crying and shaking and Lucy was crying and shaking, terrified by Joe's crying and shaking. So I held both kids and then asked Lucy to help me fix Joe's wounds. We cleaned them and put on anti biotic ointment and bandaged them. Then when the bandages bled through I bandaged them again. It was a tramatic night.

Lucy in new shorts and halter top Grandma Donna gave her.

When Joe went to bed I held Lucy and told her stories about the little girl-in-the- Princess-Dress in the swing, on the slide, walking hand in hand with her big brother. She would make suggestions, "Read me the story about the girl in the Princess Dress and a kite" she would say. I was making up these stories so I wasn't reading but I knew what she meant. It was quite a week, three days and two nights with Joseph and then a night with Joseph and Lucy.