Mira, Max, and Milo fight for lap space

All four grandchildren were visiting this week. Mira, (age 1 year 10 months) who so far has shown no desire to be near anyone but her mother, saw me sitting at my computer and proceeded to leave her mother's lap and toddle over to mine. She asked for letters so I started to play grandparent games with her. Her mother, in a state of shock seeing Mira happily on my lap, quietly left the room. Mira demanded more letters, going through them all and prompting me to show the ones I had left out.

After about a half hour of this, Max (age 3) walked by, and, knowing a good thing when he saw it, hopped onto my right leg and asked for trains. Minutes later Milo (age 5) came by. No lap being available he stood next to me and for ten minutes or so, I had 3 of my favorite people all huddled together wanting to play grandparent games. (Jonah (7 months) was somewhere else in the house.)

Eventually Mira had had it with the competition and uttered a few "mamas" and the party ended. But it was great while it lasted.