Last week we watched the 4 year old and 7 year old grandkids from 8:00 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. They are really good kids and listen pretty good. I just tell them, "Grandpa's old and can't do the same things daddy does, so you'll have to bare with me..." They seem to understand.
In the afternoon we got the great idea that we could go grocery shopping and take the kids with us. We could do two things at the same time...
So when we buckled the kids into their car seats, a mosquito flew into the car and the kids started jumping around and screaming. It took me about 15 minutes to get the bug out of the car so we could go. The same thing happened when we left the grocery store. Ugh...!
The kids wanted to ride in the cart that has an attached kids car on the front of it. Well, ok... They liked that.
They knew were every free item was in the store. Off to the bakery for a free cookie, then off to Customer Service where they have a bucket of candy they can select. I will admit that it was a little harder to watch the kids and shop at the same time, but it was fun.
We took the groceries to our house and put them away. While we were putting the food away, my grand-daughter started screaming. She had found an old ventriloquist dummy, and was scared to death of it. She said, "I don't like how it's looking at me...!" The 4 year old grand-son thought it was great.
The time was about 4:30 p.m. so we headed back to their house to beat mommy and daddy home. Again, another gd bug was in the car. So now we've learned it take 10 to 15 minutes to get the kids into the car. geezzz.
We pulled into the kids driveway, and what do you think we see coming down the street, "The ice cream truck..." Well, you can't be a good grandpa without buying your grandkids a bomb pop. I was surprised that the ice cream truck had $1 to $4.00 items for people that didn't have allot of money to spend. Anyway, the kids got these giant size Sour Patch Kids popsicles.
About 15 minutes before their parents got home, the kids started bouncing off the walls from a sugar rush. It was just like in the cartoons. They were running though out the house, jumping on beds, jumping on the furniture, and couldn't sit still for one second. I've never seen anything like that before. I thought they would be a little hyper, but this was crazy.
When my son came in I told him not to get mad at the kids, because I gave them ice cream and they got a sugar rush.. My son just thought it was funny, thank goodness...!