My great-nephew C is here visiting until the week-end. This is the first time he's come to our house, and to tell the truth, he really doesn't know us that well. This is mainly because he lives 6 hours south of us, and when the opportunity for one family to be at the half-way point (where other extended family lives) the other usually can't make it. I was a little nervous when I went to pick him up about how this would go.
Well so far, so good! He's 8 years old, which puts him right smack dab in the middle of my boys' ages. He's holding his own doing playstation Lou, and has already been at the piano with Dee (again, not his real name. The only man who could get away with being named "Dee" would be Dee Snyder of "Twisted Sister" fame. Hmmm, I feel like quotation marks should also be around the words man and fame in the preceeding sentence....but I digress). He has excellent manners, takes turns and talks to me (always a good thing. Kids who look scared, or worse yet, vacant when adults speak to them piss me off. Being able to converse is a necessity, deal with it).
I hope to give him a really nice vacation while he's here. So far plans include playgrounds, a local amusement park, and maybe some mini golf. He and I decided together what to have for meals while he's here (how can a child not like peanut butter??), and my boys are reaping the Froot Loop goodness of it all.
On Saturday we'll meet up with his dad at the halfway point between our homes. I already have the feeling that it's going to be hard to let him go...
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