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the cutest grandson ever.
Brody's parents are in the early days of getting to know you, getting to know....all about you...
Both his parents are on eternity (Maternity and Paternity) leave, nestling in, nesting, nursing, bonding and ....staying awake.... half the night.
These precious fleeting moments..... the first weeks of life at home with Mom and Dad... cannot be surpassed. They are surreal, magical and frustrating all in the same breath.
What did we ever do with our time before your arrived? Every minute is centered on you, every hour is spent planning your next need, sweet boy, our joy of joys.
This is what I remember decades ago about those first days home from the hospital with both of my children. Not only are they insanely busy, they are insanely wonderful.
They remind me of so many words from so many songs.
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. Oh to live on Sugar Mountain.
The First Time Every I Saw Your Face. Love is In The Air. You Are So Beautiful To Me.......
It's true love and the songs never end.
www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com
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Almost a whole month has gone by since I blogged here at GP.
We are just days away-- from my grandson........being born.
My daughter-in-law is so ready.
Someone left a nice comment at www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com that said something like each grandchild is a different experience. '
When Kenz was born six years ago, I can honestly say, I was clueless. I did not know I was going to be so head over heels in love. I had heard all about the gushy grandparent love, but was not expecting my love to be so intense.
This time around... I can't wait...... to hold the new baby, look him in the eyes and tell him how crazy I am about him.
Stay tuned. I'll be showing you his picture very soon!
Nana Connie
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I'm having a birthday this week. I am turning the average age of grandparents in our country (one in three of us is 53.) A big group of us became grandparents when we were 49.
I love being a grandparent and I love my birthday. Occassionally, I'll read about a person our age who thinks they are too young to be a grandparent. They're absolutely right ...we are too young!
When it comes to grandparenting though, being too young has benefits. We have enough energy to play with them now, and many years ahead of us, enough years to watch them grow up.
On my blog www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com I recently got a comment on a post I wrote about the book My Time, Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life by Abigail Trafford.
The Commentor, someone by the name of Spike, opened up a whole new perspective for me. She wrote: What a wonderful life to be a Grandmother and ladies got a surprise for you. "Great grandchildren", they are like having a re-play button, so you get to enjoy more in years to come. And the wrinkles will be a gift then, my great-granddaughter travels my face with her angel fingers and smiles. She seems to enjoy the wrinkles from laughter and avoids the ones from sorrow as if she is feeling the earning of them. So all that comes with age does some day reward you and be ready for that replay button.
Now us too young GP's have another reason to celebrate aging and that is....looking forward to great grandchildren!
Next month, I will be celebrating the birth of my second grandchild.
Hip hip hurray......I'm not getting older.... I'm getting grander!
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We are already calling the new baby due in September ---Brody.
He and my daugher-in-law are doing well. We got to see his sonogram picture and he's darling!
Jodi actually said she likes being pregnant. Does this mean I am getting a whole bunch of grandchildren? Way too early to tell.
My Kenz had another sick day today. A cold... it's probably the last of the season before summer wipes out the memory of sickness. Hopefully. That's the hard part about being a grandma that babysits... the sick days.. the coughing and just seeing them feeling yucky. I'm looking forward to being an RN,Nursing again, taking care of sick people, but I don't think I could do pediatrics. I don't like when kids are sick, especially kids I know.
One of my aunts died on Friday. She was someone I spent alot of time with in my childhood. She had been sick for awhile, but still I didn't think she'd die just yet. I've been reflecting on her and my memories of her. In the last segment of her life she was a day care Grandma for her granddaughter who is around seven. They lived in Alaska so I didn't get to see her for several years now.
Yesterday, I was thinking about how her lifetime has passed. She had her lifetime and now it's over. We have a package of years that we live. Her death is impressing upon me --to remember to---'be me' and live the life I am here to live, because this is my lifetime. It had a beginning and it has an end.
www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com
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and she is having a BOY!
They are both so excited. My son Mike is soooo very happy. He wanted a boy.
Now they can get down to the business of making a little boy's world; a nursery, toys, etc. etc. etc.
This is incredible. A Grandson.
I'm so used to saying granddaughter, I will have to practice saying grandson.
By the way, did you hear?
We're having a grandson!
(www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com)
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we find out the gender of my new grandchild, that is if he, I mean he or she decides to cooperate. Jodi and my son think the baby is a girl, so I am starting to think... maybe they know.
It's so exciting to know ...we'll know.
Kenz came up with the name that the baby will have if it's a girl. She will be Alexandra, but we'll call her Kenzie's name....Alex. A boy's name hasn't been picked yet. You see what I mean?
Either way, either gender.... we get...a baby... hurray!
Great News: Kenz is reading. Reading. Reading. Reading. If any of you grandparents have experience with the BOB books, you will know how fun it is to watch your grandchild sound out words. For O sounds Kenz looks like she is about to blow out a whole bunch of birthday candles. It's work, learning to read pho-net-i-cally, (I have to look that word up). I love watching her face light up when she gets a word off the page and out of her mouth. So cool!
The Nursing Refresher is going well, so far. I was reading Gage and Max's grandma's post today 'Back to Work." She says she can't understand why her boss won't give her a nap! lol That's one of the finer points of daycaring babies and toddlers. You can almost always count on a short nap. When I start my clinicals next month, I will probably be in bed very early, sleeping like a baby.
(www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com)
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The weather was very nice today. Kenz and her mom came over after Montessori. For awhile we played Kenz's version of hopscotch in the playroom, until I got a cramp in my leg from hopping on one foot. Hopping on one foot is something we adults don't do often... try it... it will bring back kinestetic memories of being young.
It was way too nice to be in the house anyway ,so we went out in the yard to initiate Spring with some water balloons. It's so much fun to fill little balloons with cold hose water then toss them in the sky as high as you can, ducking out of the way so they don't crash on your head.
I have been studying and reading the nurse's textbook for hours on end lately. When I am not studying, I still have that feeling that I can't let too much time pass without studying. It's a new thing for me.
It was fun to do some playing. I think I have helped facilitate(or at least contributed to) creating a--- master of play. Kenz is a master. There is never a moment she would turn down a game, an activity, an imaginary story, a chance to pretend--- she wins the award for playing!
She's alive.
Playing is children's work. It's what makes them feel as if they have accomplished something. It's where they learn about the world, how it works and how they impact it.
ahh... to hop on one foot and throw balloons in the sky...
got to go back to my reading,
I'm liking the feeling of completing homework assignments... the accomplishment . I am reminded that children have the same sense of having gotten 'something done' when they have time, space and freedom to play.
www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com
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My daughter and granddaughter are coming over for a visit tonite. I haven't seen Kenz in two days and it seems like a week.
The last time I saw her she looked like she grew 2 inches. She's at that age (5) where the subtle changes make a big difference, making her look "older."
My son called me today to report that he and Jody went to the gynecologist and "heard the heart beat!"
He said he recorded it on his phone. That was a new one for me. Recording the heart beat on the phone...what will they think of next?
He was so excited. "It was the actual heart beat, Mom."
"I know Mike, what did you think it was going to be?"
"I don't know, it was just so neat to hear it."
Jody is due in September. What a thrill it's going to be to watch her and my son so excited about each new development of the pregnancy. What a special time.
For Nana it's Everything old is new again.
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We are getting a new grandchild in September.
Every couple of days my five-year old granddaughter Kenz and I--- think of names for the new baby.
She likes Keely, Teresa, Hannah and Alex if it's a girl. I can't think of her boy names right now, because she's mentioned only---a few.
Mike and Jody will know by sonogram the gender, I think in about a month.
I feel like it's a boy. When I was pregnant with my son, I knew he was a boy and I didn't have a sonogram, I just knew. I have that feeling again.
Mike and Jody think it's a girl.
None of us knows ... but part of the fun of finding out will be to find out whose hunch was right.
It doesn't matter ...boy or girl.... we are going to love love love a boy or girl, girl or boy..... either way.
Cmon Kenz, think of some boy names.
www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com
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Hi all,
GP is blooming in bloggers. I wonder where Gmaw has been, the grandma on the farm, the busy lady taking care of her diabetic brother and all those animals plus quilting. Her posts were like walking into a country kitchen and having a biscuit with tea. I hope she comes back.
No doubt about it, blogging is a time eater. Sometimes I will write a post for my blogspot blog, then rewrite it, then publish it, then revise it, publish it and rewrite it the next day. It's therapy for me, brain practice. I think it's my favorite thing to do.
My brain however, has convinced me that it wants to do something else. It wants to renew my RN license. I wonder if it knows it's going have to switch gears, read the textbooks, do the math.
I haven't done Nursing for ten years. The refresher progam takes six months. The good thing is that I can do the curriculum online before the clinicals which of course, I have to do 'live.'
When I 'become' a nurse again, I plan on working PRN. That means only when I want to. I want to update my license now, while I'm in my early 50's and before my second grandchild arrives in Sept. I want to renew to be able to sign my professional designation for article writing. I have never been good at staying on a strict schedule, but for the next six months I am going to have to be very careful with my time. I had somebody help me chart out how to do this. She divided up the hours in the day, designated them for this and that.
I'm off schedule right now. See what I mean about blogging? Blogging, I have heard is the new stress producer.
Kenz is sick, staying home from school. I'm going over to my daughter's house to spend the day with her and ---play. I have to pack up now.
Time is a running....
Other GP's and GP bloggers......
What 's your experience with blogging?
Do you work and try to see your grandchildren almost daily?
Do you have a lot to do?
Nana Connie
www.playwitmenana.blogspot.com
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