Outing Part: Granny and Jiichan
Granny: The kids couldn't decide whether to go bowling or to putters. Venice slightly wanted to go bowling and Xander to putters. I said okay, how will we decide this? Xander said, since we might fight, he wanted to not go anywhere...Venice was easily persuaded. Venice was reading, so I got some 'magic cards' and Xander and I practiced magic tricks. He did some that he already knew and asked if I was impressed - before I answered he told me Casey was impressed. I said I was impressed...I asked him if my being impressed or Casey's being impressed was better. He chose Casey...sad Granny, can't compete. lol.
Jiichan: It's fun to watch the kids decide as a group and resolve so no one feels their input isn't considered - When all 4 are present Casey almost always says "he doesn't care..." and often Xander will follow suit - It matters a lot to Venice and Teiya where we go, and whose place is chosen to go to - After a number of weeks when this took a very long time to decide, it now doesn't take too long and mainly it's Venice and Teiya who make the decision - Then, it's who rides with whom that needs to be decided - Again it doesn't matter to Casey who he rides with, and mostly all 3 others want to ride with Casey so it's decision time again with who rides with him on the way and who on the way home....Like with the decision on destination, Venice and Teiya have come to be the deciders, and they've worked out between them so that one of them rides with Casey out and the other on the way in - Xander also wants to ride with Casey, and he does get his turn, tho I'm not exactly clear how he gets a turn - recently Venice and Teiya since Casey and Teiya were going to be gone over the next 2 weeks decided that Venice would ride one way with Teiya and one with Casey, and Xander would also ride one way with Casey and on the return with Teiya, this way they could each "say goodbye" to their cousins - Very sweet...!
Granny: Xander went out with Jiichan to throw the ball up against the garage. Venice and I worked on her blanket. I gave Venice a piece of knitting to just learn on and practice knitting. I cast on the stitches for the blanket and began to knit away. Then Xander and Jiichan started playing with water so Venice was lured outside. She watered plants and Xander shot the water into the sky...to see how far it would go.
Jiichan: Xander had discovered throwing the ball against the garage door a couple of weeks ago when we chose to stay at home instead of going out - He loves doing this, and throws himself into it, and figures out whether the ball will come back to him depending on where he throws it - Literally throws himself into it, and the look on his face as he chases to ball down is priceless....This time, as he had done once before, threw the ball a little too high and it hit on the roof and settled into the drain - He looked at me and said we need to get the ladder - Yes, Xander, we do, and the look of anticipation on his face is again priceless - I get the ladder, hold it as he climbs up and plucks the ball out of the drain, and climbs down again - I say we'll leave the ladder against the outside of the garage in case this happens again - Xander loves this - I'd gotten a bit winded from throwing the ball and chasing it down, so sat down with a bag of chips in the shade and Xander came and sat down in the other Maurie Jacob's chair and foar a good 10 minutes we sat there and chatted - Mainly Xander chatted about being excited and can't wait to get home, and when I asked why he said he was waiting for package containing "Portal 2" which is supposed to come today - I asked how he knew and he said because he'd checked in the morning and it was "in Springfield this morning" so should be here this afternoon - He described to me about what the game was, and because I'd asked him since this was Portal 2 did he already have Portal 1, but he said no, as it was only for PCs, and Portal 2 was for both PCs and MACs - Oh....As for the water part, he wanted to wet the driveway down and proceeded to do so, working meticulously to cover it all - by this time Venice came out, so he gave her a turn with the hose, and even directed her to cover some of the driveway that was still somewhat dry - Venice completed this, and then with a twinkle in her eye started spraying the stream closer and closer to my feet, which I'd stuck out in front of me as I reclined in my Jiichan Maurie Jacob's chair - she was teasing me that she was going to wet my feet, and started spraying my socks - they got awfully wet, but I didn't move them - She continued til they were soaking wet, and then I got up slowly and started chasing her, grabbed the hose and started wetting her bare legs - of course she screamed, and said this wasn't fair as she only set my socks - I teased her that it was pay-back time, and she screamed and ran across the lawn....Later she got the hose back and said she wanted to fool Granny into thinking it was raining, and directed the stream onto the living room window where Granny was sitting inside knitting....Did I say my socks were soaking wet...?
Granny: Then inside for ice cream, rootbeer floats oreos...We played a few games of spoons. Very funny as when one time it was my turn to deal, the others quietly stole the spoons. I didn't notice and started to play and they all laughed and laughed.
Jiichan: This was sooooo funny - When Granny finally got what was happening, her hysterical laffter was funnier than the trick we'd played on her - Took her a while go compose herself she was laffing so hard...!
Granny: They tried the same trick on Jiichan almost got him. Then Xander and I started a card game of war. Venice decided that she and Jiichan should play and that the two winners would then play each other. Xander and I played and played, altho I was heroic, he beat me..
Venice and Jiichan played and she won.
Jiichan: She beat me pretty handily...!
Granny: Then she and Xander began to play...they were in high hilarity. Xander couldn't get over mixing two decks of cards, Venice devised a system of laying out her cards in a preplan method of playing them. Xander copied her and then when Venice had a huge line of cards, she shouted out, "This is really fun"....Xander got all excited and they moved into an imaginary game of war using the cards. Jiichan was sitting and nodding and nodding,
Jiichan: Well, I was checking something on my not-so-smart phone and was nodding in agreement at what I saw - well, actually I didn't really see what was on my phone's face as my eyes kept closing - embarrassing...
Granny: so I pointed to him and Venice finally looked and then Xander...but as soon as they got quiet, Jiichan woke up...go figure.
Jiichan: It was the "sound of silence" that woke me up...
Granny: It was a few minutes before going, and Venice asked if she could play minecraft...then a few minutes later at 4:55 Xander asked to play also....so we said...it is very late and your mom will be here soon....they said okay....
Diana came, the day was over, they were great.
- Granny
Jiichan: It was a great day...
Jiichan...
Labels: caesy, conversations, cousins, granny, jiichan, outing, teiya, venice, xander
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