All About Gumpa

Grandpa J was in town for the past week helping us out with a few things. Since he and grandma V (and his other grandparents too) live so far away we have been FaceTiming with Max every couple weeks with them and I wasn't sure if it was making an impact or not...until Grandpa J arrived. On Saturday morning I got Max up and told him Grandpa was here and in the living room. He got excited and ran to the living room to see for himself and started showing grandpa his cars. That just put a smile on my face and confirmed that FaceTime has worked. From that point on there was a lot of playtime and Max asking for Gumpa. Where's Gumpa? Well, Gumpa was right there for everything Max wanted to do...

Play in his play house.

Play with bubbles.

Show gumpa the lights in the backyard. This truly melted my heart when he took gumpa's hand and walked him to every solar light in the backyard to show him that the light was on.

Playing "weeee". This is where you turn in circles to make yourself dizzy while Max says "weeeee".

Throwing the ball with gumpa.

Looking for buggies under the chaise lounge.

Max also told gumpa to pick up the doggy poopy in the backyard and showed him exactly where it was. 

Max also got gumpa to lay down in the grass with him to look at the stars at night. All of the activities over the past week absolutely just melted my heart. It's always hard to live away from family and know that your kid doesn't get to see their grandparents very often. Luckily today's technology has helped tremendously. Gumpa flew back to WI this afternoon and Max lost his play buddy for a while, but the memories I have of the two of them playing together are priceless.