Meeting Grannie and Grandad

Dec. 14th | Posted by Nicky 2 comments

Grandad, Grannie, and their first two granddaughters!

This past week the girls met their paternal set of grandparents for the first time. Grannie and Grandad flew in from Alberta and brought the cold weather with them. But we managed to brave the chill and go out to do quite a few fun things. Jrock took three days off so we had lots of time to visit. We used to live really close to them, so it was nice to have them around for 5 days and reconnect. Jrock and I both miss them!

We went swimming at the H2O centre – which was really fun but exhausting, as you have to hold onto the kids the whole time. We also put up the Christmas tree, visited Santa Claus, did snowman crafts, visited the library for a puppet show, etc. And Grandad went with Jrock to Jrock’s hockey game one night too.

Sugar (again) was a little too darn friendly at first (tried to crawl all over Grannie 30 seconds after meeting her), but soon she reverted to her usual slightly ornery self, and we knew she had stopped the indiscriminate affection thing. Poor Grannie had to endure”this is MY house” “this is MY car, no for you!” “this is MY food, no take on plane” and the like for the week. But I think they still really enjoyed themselves. And they respected our “no pick up, no sit lap, no cuddle” rule, which made it a lot easier for us. (It was the first time Jrock had his relatives visit and I think he finally understood how hard it is to put the kids first and your parents second.)

Daddy and his girls - he really is their big safety blanket and they love when he is home for a few days.

Anyway, Grannie was super happy when she got genuine kisses from Spice (Grandad wasn’t to sure what to do about the little girl pretending to go to work and puckering up!) and ecstatic when they sat on her lap for the photo on the last day (with Mommy’s permission).

Here are some pictures of their visit.