Another whirlwind grandchild tour

I just came back from a quick trip that included playing with the 3 grandchildren.

Max (who just turned 2) loves grandparent games and asks for it when he sees me. He is now speaking in real sentences and has become quite verbal. "Metro train" was all I heard when we started playing grandparent games. He can watch metro video for a really long time. This is a very weird gene that I seem to have I passed on.

Milo is over train videos but not over grandparent games. He asked for it at every moment, now mostly to see dinosaurs. He is obsessed with chess which he demanded be on grandparent games as well, so I am thinking about that.

Milosplace (http://www.milosplace.com/) is actually what we should be using on these visits since that is the site meant for kids on laps.

Mira appears

Mira was ready for grandparent games today. She is amazingly cute. She loved the monkey and the duck made her smile. She likes the bells too, I hadn't seen her in a long while.

milo talks fish

We have reached the point I was aiming for when I first thought of building grandparent games. Today Milo and I had a conversation about camouflage (because of an octopus video) and why having a shark eat other fish in an aquarium would be a bad idea (he was wondering why the sharks didn't eat fish in the video) as well as having a dinosaur discussion. This is when it gets interesting.

grandparent games is now free!

I wanted more people to share in this experience. So I made it free. I never thought people should be paying for stuff on the internet anyhow.

max visits papa and plays ggames on my lap

Milo goes beyond dinosaurs and trains

Milo is beginning to act like a boy and not a baby. He wanted to see new things on grandparent games and was ready to talk about what we were seeing. We went to the market for the first time and explored the sounds a bit. He didn't want to read but he did want to draw. Our conversations are becoming more human, slowly but surely. No trains but lots of dinosaurs. He also tried to shoe the little kid stuff to Mira, who wasn't that interested. We are slowly reaching the point where he will be able to call me on his won and play with me on his own and talk about stuff together, which is, of course, why we built grandparent games. For now though, it has worked pretty well to have him comfortable with the grandparent who doesn't show up that often.

max follows the train tradition

I tried dinosaurs on Max but to no avail. We went to trains, songs, and diggers and he was very happy. New grandson, same interests as the last one. There must be a train gene in our family. One difference worth noting. When Milo watches trains, Hana goes and does something else. When Max watches them, Joshua is just as interested. No surprise there of course. After my session with Max on ggames, I see he had one with his grandmother. Can't get enough I guess.