Busy B

We have a visitor coming to see us today, he will only be here for a few days but those few days are going to be fully involved.

It's been two years since we have see our grandson Benjamin, and for four short days we are going to be really busy with B, I know for sure that we are taking him to Legoland. Especially since while he was talking to Cindy on the phone he said in a sing song voice "Mimi, can we go to Legoland?" You probably have already guessed her answer, and yes she now has Legoland tickets in her possession.

Cindy posing with Benjamin on his last visit

You know how this works, Papa is usually doomed to either buying something or going somewhere he wouldn't have otherwise when the grandbaby starts a sentence with "Mimi can I..., or Mimi I wish that..." those are kind of like magic words for B when it comes to Cindy.

I was reminded of this fact just yesterday when we had to run over to Geoffery the Giant Giraffe, you know the one that sells toys, we were looking for a Lego minifigure. These minifigures come inside a package that you can't see inside, and whats inside is a mystery until you open the package. It seems that if B has some of these he can trade them at Legoland for more...

Heck I don't know, all I do know is that for three or four bucks a pop, we ended up with fourteen random packages that I can't see what's inside, they supposedly contain some Lego figure that I have no idea what it looks like. Cindy assures me that because of these packages that I will be the "Best Papa Ever", but I did hear her on the phone with him saying "Just wait until you get here and see what Mimi got for you"

That's OK though, While we were walking back to the car I did smile as she thumbed through all of the random packages looking at the labels that told her no more than they told me, I just hope we got the right ones. As I loaded the big bag into the back of the car, that contains the gaming system that B really wants for Christmas, I realized that I had just been caught up once again between "Mimi I really want..." and "Hey Jimmy look what I found for Benjamin", Oh well they are only little once.

Our daughter Melissa is coming over to stay with Cindy's Dad on the day we go down to Legoland. This is a big help for us and it allows us to give our full attention to B. His Mom and Dad are coming along for the ride and we are going to be glad to see them too, but you know how it is once you have kids you lose your name, so with that said our son is no longer known as Tim, he is now known as Benjamin's Dad.

Tim will get some attention from mom but nothing like he used to get when he was the baby of the family, now that he is Benjamin's Dad he has been slid onto the back burner as they say, because the majority of Mimi's attention now belongs to B.

I am sure a lot of pictures will be taken the next few days and I will share some of those with you next week, but for the rest of this week I am going to be slow answering comments and visiting your blogs, but have no fear I'll be back in full force after Monday with some new and exciting tales of the adventures of our short visit with B.

I don't know I may need a nap first.