Nn is for Nash

N is for new baby!

My 10th grandson who is also my 11th grandchild

was born on 10-11-11 at 11:54 p.m.

He weighed 7 lb. 10 oz. and was 19" long.

He is the new little brother to Jack and Ryan.

N is for Nash!
Welcome to the family!

Love, Grandma

Dd is for Dolls

Is this what you are thinking right now?

"Dd is for dolls . . . that's dumb.

Doesn't Grandma know

mostly boys who love balls, cars, legoes and super heroes read this blog?"

I will have you know that dolls are delightful. Not only that, but one of the most popular toys at my house, that you have all been known to play with, is the dollhouse . . . the place where a doll family lives. Some of you are or have been fans of Woody and Buzz which are kind of like boy dolls! And last, but not least playing with dolls is both fun and good practice. Once upon a time there were four little girls who played with dolls and now have become:

the mother of Zach, Brody and Luke

the mother of Eddy and Lindsay Lu

the mother of Wade and Owen

and the mother of Jack, Ryan and . . .
Can you guess who is the new darling baby DeWitt?
I dare you to play with a doll today!
Love, Grandma

Ee is for Eddy

Who is hiding behind the letter "E"?

Who is possibly the wiggliest person I have ever taken a picture of?

Who is a big brother to one little sister?

Who has a Dad and a dog he loves to wrestle with?

Who has a Mom who teaches preschool with him?

Who is so smart he knows what a rhombus is?

(Does Grandma even know how to spell that word?)

Who is so helpful he can pick ripe tomatoes from the garden and fill a bowl for dinner?

Who will be turning four years old the day after Christmas?

Guess who "Ee is for . . . " and tell me your favorite thing

about this mystery person hiding behind the letter "E".

You just may win a fabulous (possibly edible) prize!

Happy "eek-a-boo"

Love, Grandma

Ff is for Feet

Feet are fabulous things to have even if they look as freaky as these feet of an unnamed person. You can use your feet to run and walk . . . skip and kick . . . jump and stand for hours on end. I'm not sure I can think of something from A to Z to do with feet but here are two possibilities: Footprint ghosts
or
Monster feet
Have fun with your feet!
Love, Grandma

Gg is for Ghosts

Today I'm going to tell you a ghost story. As everyone knows, ghosts are white, and to stay white ghosts can only eat things that are white. They can drink milk and eat vanilla ice cream, marshmallows, cauliflower and coconut. One day five little ghosts went to visit their Grandma and horror of horrors, she had no milk, no vanilla ice cream, no marshmallows, absolutely nothing white to eat. She needed to go to the store pronto. Before she left, she told her little ghost grandsons not to eat anything while she was gone or something DREADFUL might happen. Then Grandma hurried off to the nearest grocery store.

But as you know, little ghosts can't go five minutes at Grandma's house without getting hungry. Eddy ghost was starving and when he saw a kiwi on the counter he gobbled it up and guess what happened? He turned green! The other ghosts looked at him and laughed. Eddy ghost felt terrible so he hid under Grandma's green couch. By this time Brody was hungry and quite upset Grandma didn't have any donette gems, so he decided to eat just one little purple grape. And what do you suppose happened? He turned purple! He was so embarrassed he ran upstairs and hid in the bathtub.

By now Ryan ghost (or was it Wade?) was thirsty. He looked in Grandma's refrigerator and saw some orange juice. He drank just one tiny sip, but guess what happened? He turned orange! . . . and he ran and hid in the toybox. Jack ghost's tummy was rumbling, too so he thought he would just take the teeniest, tiniest bite out of a strawberry. But you can probably guess what happened? He turned red! He ran out into the garage and hid in the red wagon.

Zach ghost is always hungry and he figured he was much smarter than the other ghosts. He looked in the freezer to see if there just might be a little bit of vanilla ice cream left. And there was some ice cream and it was almost vanilla. It was white with little brown pieces of chocolate in it. Zach didn't think that could hurt him so he ate one spoonful and became a chocolate chip ghost. And he hid in the only hiding place left--the cleaning closet.

When Grandma came home with two big sacks full of vanilla ice cream, jugs of milk, donette gems, marshmallows and coconut, she wondered why her house was so quiet. There were no ghost grandsons running and playing and shouting BOO. She knew something must be wrong and searched all over until she found this:

Gg is for Ghosts (Part 2)

After Grandma found all of the colorful ghosts, she wondered what on earth should she do to help them turn white before Halloween. So she called Grandpa. He suggested they eat lots and lots of caulifower. UGH! But Grandma and the little ghosts knew Grandpa can get pretty grouchy if ghostly grandsons aren't clean and white at his house. So guess what? Eddy, Brody, Ryan (or Wade), Jack and Zach ate big bowlfuls of cauliflower and this is what Grandpa saw when he came home from work!

The moral of this story is "don't sneak food without asking at Grandma's house" . . . or is the moral of this story "don't make Grandpa grouchy or he might make you eat a bowl of cauliflower!"

Have a great day my little ghostly grandsons!

Love, Grandma