Mamasan’s been working nights, so I’ve had a number of babysitting nights recently… here’s another gwumpa story \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
We’re sitting in the bedroom, finishing up a 2nd nighttime book and the grandboy requests another.<\/p>\n
“No sir, we’ve read the two you picked out and it’s time for prayers and sleep now…”<\/p>\n
“But gwumpaaaaaa” (as he puts away the books)<\/p>\n
He pulls out another fav, a dinosaur book and blinks big eyes at me.<\/p>\n
“No sir, but you can read it on your own after we finish. You can read after bedtime.”<\/p>\n
“But gwumpa, i don’t even know these things’ names.<\/p>\n
Look. This bird. (he points to a dinosaur)<\/p>\n
This tree. (He points to dinosaur eggs)<\/p>\n
This race car. (He points to a stream).<\/p>\n
See? You have to reeead them to me.”<\/p>\n
Hm, i think, this is obviously a ploy to stay up later, so we close out the night with a firm but gentle end to the story negotiation.<\/p>\n
Then later, when I peek in on him, I find…<\/p>\n
the boy on his bed, finger-tracing the words in that book, pretend-reading it out loud.<\/p>\n
And he even nailed every dinosaur, egg, and stream in there.<\/p>\n
He just wanted his friend-gwumpa to read with him.<\/p>\n
He got extra hugs and kisses after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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