George wrote:

> When your grands are small is the time to get revenge on your children for
> being little pills. I used to give all my grands toy musical instruments
> that really worked, trumpets, drums, bugles, any thing that made noise.
> Remember those toddler "lawn mowers", had the little doodads inside a dome
> that went up and down and made a sort of engine noise. I tried to get a
> carload deal on those suckers. Our kids got where they would hide when
> they saw us coming with big packages for their kids.
>
> Now we get to do it again for the greatgrands, even more fun.


I did the same thing for a friend's kid. But better yet, when I got to
babysit the kid I coached him to say a very special sentence. He was about
two-and-a-half years old when he and I walked up to his mommy (who was
standing in line at a pharmacy) and he said, "MOMMY, YOU'RE PRETTY! NICE
RACK!"

Bob