Riches

Granddaddy Jake and Omi are in town for a visit, and I cannot tell you how excited Kiernan is. It's an embarrassment of riches, having just had Pap-Pap's company about a week ago. This boy loves his grandparents. Loves them.

Granddaddy Jake and Omi arrived this afternoon. Kiernan showed them his bunk bed, introduced them to his Planet Heroes, and generally set about making them feel at home. As the adults got carried away talking and catching up, he got a bit antsy. So Omi suggested he bring one of his Solar System books into the living room and teach her about the Solar System. So he picked out the beautiful and enormous picture book of the universe that his godfathers gave him last year.

I love seeing Kiernan with his grandparents. I love the way he interacts with them, the way he responds to them. I love how specific this interaction is. How he reacts and interacts to each one of them so uniquely.

He was particularly focused upon getting Granddaddy Jake to take his shoes off when he and Omi arrived this afternoon. Part of this was because I greeted Jake and Karen (Omi) with one shoe on and one shoe off (timing). Part of this was just pure little boy excitement. That thing that happens when your unbearable excitement leads to incessant talking.

"Take both your socks off...I did!"

After dinner we all read a new Magic School Bus book. Kiernan's favorite books right now.