GREAT!

Don Andrew finally turned four years of age on Sunday. On Saturday the entire group, along with lots of friends, had a birthday party that couldn’t be beat. Grandma Sancha and this old laborer didn’t arrive until Sunday evening very late.

That wonderful grandma and I had a marvelous idea. We would keep Don Andrew and Don Matthew (he’ll be one year old on Friday) home from that daycare holding facility for children who aren’t old enough to attend institutions of formal learning. Boy, were we in for a treat.

Don Andrew has developed a few new expressions. One is to exclaim, Great! He’ll do that quite loudly at times. We went to Grumps for lunch. It was quite exciting but Grandma Sancha forgot the diaper bag with Don Matthew's baby food. Don Andrew heard about that and said, Great! Of course, that was a bit sarcastic at best.

We were ready to leave Grumps and Grandma Sancha was driving and in a bind. Cars were coming down the highway we had to get that Suburban Wagon out on to return home. She got the left front wheel in a hole and kind of squealed the tires getting out and on the highway when there was a break in traffic. Upon hearing the squealing tires, Don Andrew said, Great!

Something else happened earlier that morning that was quite funny but at the same time designed from the beginning to get this old knight’s squire in trouble. Don Andrew and his faithful squire were playing baseball and our young jouster swung the bat and knocked the ball clear out of the yard, which, of course, he wasn’t supposed to even be hitting the ball in that particular direction.

There is a very small creek behind their yard and the ball went right over that creek. Don Andrew squared off, wearing his Sketchers. He prepared to make his very best Benny the Jet run, then ran down the hill, and jumped right over that creek. Wow!

Don Andrew next retrieved the ball and tried to throw it side armed and it landed on the same side of the creek again. No progress. Once more he gave it his best try and it landed right in the middle of the creek. You can probably guess his next move. Once again he squared off in his Benny stance, ran down the hill and jumped right smack in the middle of that creek. Sketchers are much more expensive than P F Flyers used to be.

Of course, the minute he hit the middle of the creek, he looked up at his befuddled old grandpa and said, Great! What could this old crippled traveler say but, Great! I really don’t think Grandma Sancha and Doña Duchess found the situation all that great! Grandpa Sancho got a pretty big kick out of the whole thing.