Too good to let slide :-) (When I remember the 3rd one"I'll edit this & post it, too!)
1.) On the way to a restaurant for dinner when we 1st got to Fl.
Gramma :"I'm so hungry I could eat a bear, how about you Ethan"?
Ethan: "No"
Grandpa: "I'M so hungry I could eat a giraffe!"
Ethan, matter-of-factly : "You guys are going to get sick"!
2.) Emma as she, her friend Rachel and Ethan were trying to capture Grandpa during a chase yesterday!
Emma, Ethan & Rachel were trying to take a sock off Grampa so he couldn't escape to the outside when Grandpa said he'd "have to ask his Mommy if he could go barefoot".
Emma: "No you won't!"
Grandpa: "Yes, I do"!
Emma : "You don't have a Mommy".
Grandpa: "YES I do"!
Emma: Matter of factly- "No - you don't because you're SO old she'd be dead"!
3.) I was in "heaven" on the way back to Alpharetta at the Cracker Barrel (restaurant) lunch stop in Fl when I discovered "Greens & Beans" with corn bread on the menu! You see, when I was a "kid", Mom used to make (turnip) greens now & then for Pop & me, although we were the only ones in our family who liked them. Pop used to tell me that "greens were the 1st FRESH food they'd have on the farm after winters end & how GOOD they tasted after months of eating canned and dried food" & BOY oh BOY was I excited to find them on that menu in a restaurant in the deep south! - I hadn't had any since way back when we lived in Mira Mesa when our southern black neighbor Sal had heard that I liked them, but had never had "blackeyed peas" and he shared a portion of his beloved traditional New Years Day fare of (Collard) Greens & Black eyed Peas with me, in exchange for one of my (rare, sigh) Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Pies!
SO I eagarly awaited them and was enjoying it thoroughly, savoring a 3rd forkfull with my eyes, when Emma did a double take & asked " GR-amma, what is THAT?!"
Gramma: "Turnip Greens !- My Daddy taught me to like them when I was a little girl and I haven't had any in over 20 years!"
Emma - emphaticaly: "Well, they look like you 're eating a SWAMP!"
SOMEhow they didn't taste QUITE the same after that & they are now forever known to our Georgia Grands as "Gramma's swamp food"!
mc
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Well - what would Gigi think of that!
Heath was very concerned about me coming to recess with him on Grandparents day and told his mom he would only swing with me since I was old. And that was the first thing we did - swing together.
ps - surely you are old enough not to try to eat an entire giraffe in one sitting!!
HMMM - I've already had one pot of beet greeens - more Mon when Mont is not home to wrinkle his nose.
I love that Emma and Ethan sure know their own mind! No one will put anything over on them. Not even giraffe-and-swampfood-eating ancient grandparents. ;)
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