December 26, 2006
Mighty Joe Old
You could sure tell that Papaw had fun on Christmas Eve.. he took to picking at everyone, laughing and carrying on, even singing to Lisa.. but slow poke me didn't get my camera in time to get him singing on video..
Now he has a penchant for pie.. and he conned me into giving him a slice.. and then he conned Lisa into giving him a slice.. and he conned Mom into giving him a slice.. 3 slices of pie for a diabetic isn't good, so needless to say that the following day he didn't want anything sweet.. but ohhh did he enjoy it at the time.. he...sang to the pie while he ate it. *laughs*
Maegan's a hotshot, she likes to push 'helpless' grandfathers around...
And she's always on his back...
Here's an example of how rotten Bonnie can be sometimes.. she was hiding behind him and he kept trying to roll himself to where the action is, but couldn't..and he couldn't figure why.. she finally laughed and let him go.. poor Papaw.. bullies abound on Christmas eve! Between Maegan and Bonnie, it's just torment, torment, torment!
Santa always visits over at Mom's on Christmas Eve..and this year was no different.. Papaw was as excited as the kids to see him coming!
He must have been good, because Santa gave him a gift.. he got a new coat! (Thanks, Don!)
We all gave him gifts and he had a good time opening them..
Papaw painted door signs for me and Lisa and Shannon.. we loved 'em!
Maegan can't resist.. she had to play with his ear..anything for a response from him, that child loves him dearly...
He'll do anything to get Mom to fussing at him - he found a cigarette in the ashtray someone had put out..and he picked it up and pretended he was smoking. It wasn't lit, but he acted all sneaky with it - and laughed like crazy when Mom told him we were corrupting him to get that nasty thing out of his hand! (Ohhh if she'd only known about all that pie!)
He loves to catch one of our packs of cigarettes laying on the table.. then he turns them upside down in the pack so that when we light them, we light the filters.. the dirty rat!
He's fiesty again, happy and chipper, picking at us and cackling out loud a lot. It's good to see him this way, and it was so nice to have Christmas with him again after all these years. Thanks, Papaw, I loved my door sign!
Posted by juel at December 26, 2006 10:14 PM