My Little Rascals: The Three's Class: Valentine Tea

Airplanes and space

I recentlytook Shawn Jr. to the museum of flight. The first time I took him he was 3 yrs. old. He loved looking at the many airplanes hanging from the ceiling and displayed on the three levels of the museum. He was slightly interested in the space shuttle.. It was fun time for both of us. Since that first visit he has mentioned several times that he would like to go back to the museum of flight, his requests coming more frequently in the last few months. Loving our alone time, I decided to take him again this January. Even though it was hard to cough up $25.00 to go walk through and look at airplanes again, I wanted to please my grandson. (He was free the first time around, and I had a coupon for me:))

We spent an entire afternoon looking around and walking through the museum. This time Shawn Jr. was talking the entire time. He asked questions nonstop. He was relaxed and in no hurry. He walked through the museum with his little eyes wide open with wonder and excitement, enjoying every minute of it. He asked if we could go walk inside the space shuttle and showed me where they slept standing up-things remembered from our previous trip about a year and a half earlier. It was a special day for me that I will always remember. I don't know much about airplanes and I fear the questions will become more and more complicated as we return to the museum, so I took Shawn and his brother to the library last week to load up on books about planes and space shuttles... what a wonderful learning experience for both of us. My number one grandson( as he calls himself) has started yet another tradition to be passed along to his younger brother and cousins. He did say that we probably shouldn't take Xarik and Baron until they are four-because they would run around too much, but that Carson could probably handle it . My wise little guy....

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Three's Class: Valentine Tea

I had the honor of attending Mrs. Eakins's Annual Valentine Tea at the preschool my grandson attends.
The three year olds are told that they can invite one "special person" in their lives to join them at the tea party. My Little Shawn chose me. As you may guess we were both very delighted!!!
He is such a special little guy. We had a wonderful time together, playing with his favorite toys at preschool . Shawn loved showing me off to Mrs. Eakin. He was very proud of his Gaga that day and Mrs. Eakin said that she loved watching me "glow" as I observed him at circle time and other activities. I wonder if , as parents we are able to get that fullness of love and affection for our little ones. Or are we often so caught up in our responsibilities and pressure of our lives that we can't fully get it. I know I had very enjoyable moments watching my own children grow..but as a grandparent, I feel like I enjoy all of these moments in a whole new light. It is such a wonderful chapter in my life, I want it to never end...

On another note, as I was playing with Shawn at the preschool , we were looking at an array of figurines.. The figurines were about 6-7 inches tall. They were "dolls" dressed up for different professions such as a doctor, a mail lady etc..I asked Shawn to guess each of their professions. I held up a women in career apparal and said to him, " look she has a breifcase in one hand and a cell phone in the other." Shawn leans over to me and with a look on his face that I have often seen on my own children's faces, he says, "no Gaga, that is not a cell phone, that is a tv remote" I looked at it again, and evidently this toy was a little outdated for these new toddlers, the very large cell phone (of the ninties) did indeed look like a tv remote and not like any cell phone Shawn had seen in his 3 1/2 years !!! lol

My Little Rascals

Airplanes and space

Shawn Jr./museum of flight

Museum of Flight

Shawn/air balloon

Shawn Jr./helicopter

Shawn the Astronaut

Shawn Jr./control tower

Shawn Jr.helicopter

Shawn Jr.space needle

Shawn Jr./airplane

Shawn Jr./2011

Museum of Fight/ 2009

Gaga/Papa and the grandkids

My little blessings

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Three's Class: Valentine Tea

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