Visiting Meemaw and Papa

I wonder if the little Grandkids are going to remember me.
I pretty sure the older ones, Dylan, Logan and Kaylyn won't forget me, but Roger, Luke and Owen are still little... So when they come to stay with us for a few days I want to do things they will remember. May need some pictures to jog the memory, so I take a bunch of those too.
On Roger and Luke's latest visit. It was a rainy day. I announced that we were headed to the library and both boy weren't too interested.
"But they have dinosaurs!"

"And fun things to do! Trust me, You will have fun"

Both boys had to wear one of Mike's hats

They had 16 different dinosaur exhibits and fun things all pertaining to the dinosaur. They had a table outdoors where you could dig for bones. Roger took a beeline for it and accidently went out a fire exit door. Yup, the sirens went off and he got scared. The lady came to turn it off and Roger apologized. It was too wet to dig anyway.

Lets take him home

I grabbed some books for bedtime reading. The boys played and Mike rocked in one of the rockers. Good Time had by all. Both agreed our Library is pretty awesome.

Now back home to the legos and puzzles.

Master lego Builder

One of Bryan's old transformer puzzles

Next day was an afternoon spent with Papa in his work area. Mike let them hammer and screw and build and paint with all his scrap wood.

Luke wants me to help him pick out wood

start of something tall

No idea what it is, but it had to be white

The boys were in heaven. Mike enjoyed it too.

On our last day Mike went into work so I took the boys out to visit. Ever since we went to the strawberry patch they wanted to see "Papa's Tractor"
I called ahead and asked Jon, The golf pro and my nephew, if I could borrow a golf cart to take them out to find Mike.
He told Roger and Luke that they could even drive.
" What? You can't tell them that!"

We found him on the 10th hole.

Both boys got to climb on his tractor.

Mike drove away and then I let both boys drive the golf cart. Luke had to sit on my lap, but Roger was all about standing and doing all the driving.
I hope it's something that they will remember.
That afternoon was a little dryer so Mike took the boys over to the park. I stayed home.
They came home with toys and candy.
"Oh yeah, we stopped at the store and got snacks for the movie tonight." The toy aisle was next to the candy aisle.

After our last full day together we settle in to watch "Finding Dory". Watching Luke and Roger cuddle up to Mike I realize we don't have to DO something every minute of every day they are with us. Some memories are just made by fixing a puzzle together, creating something out of Legos, or just hanging out watching a movie.

The Twins

Sharen and I were "The Twins".
I always got asked -
 Aren't you one of the twins?
Which twin are you?
Twins right?
You look like twins?
And so on and so forth...
It's so much easier to say twins than Karen and Sharen.

I stopped in at Sharens because I knew she had all the grandkids over and I wanted to see them.
Ben hasn't figured out quite yet that Grandma has someone who looks and sounds like her. Matthew announced that I was Grandma's twin.
Kallie tells me that her and Kendell are twins but they don't look alike. Sitting together arms around each other.
I filled her in that sometimes being a twin is not how you look, but how you feel.
Both girls looked at each other and Got It!

I thought OMG They are the twins now.
Carrie informs us that "the twins" are going to be in the SE parade.
She meant Kendell and Kallie...
The new twins.
Sharen and I will always be "The twins" to some people who don't know the new ones. But I will gladly pass on to the Zierk twins, the title of "the twins" in our family. I'm sure Sharen feels the same.
So I headed on down to the parade so I could get a picture of "the twins" and their dance group.

Kendell has the parade wave down

Kallie 

They had the girls on opposite sides of the truck so yes I ran out during the parade so I could get a picture of both.
The girls need to tell them they want to be together for pictures - they'll learn.