What My Grandkids Say

As grandparents we eagerly await the bon mots, pithy saying or cute remarks which our grandkids drop, especially when they are in their very young years. I too am not immune to this. I too am making a collection of the wonderful things my grandchildren utter. Perhaps someday I shall share these gems, if for nothing else but to playfully embarrass them.

We have two sets of twins. My daughter who lives in Germany has fraternal boys and my daughter who lives in Newton MA has a set of identical girls. The boys were born six weeks before the girls.

Shortly before Christmas this year, Danny, one of our four twins, told his mother that he did not believe in Santa Claus. He was convinced that mommy and daddy bought the gifts.  Danny maintained that he only believed in three things, God, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny.

One morning last week, Massachusetts Ryan, came to breakfast and told his mother that a tooth had fallen out during the night and that he put it under his pillow but the Tooth Fairy did not come. His mother explained that perhaps the Tooth Fairy was very busy last night. She suggested that putting the tooth under his pillow tonight might prove more productive. Ryan agreed and that night he put the tooth under his pillow.

Before Ryan’s parents go to bed at night it is their custom to visit the room of each of their three children, give each a kiss and make sure each is tucked in for the night. Ryan was presumably sound asleep when he received his kiss. It was then that his parents remembered the Tooth Fairy. Since neither one had money in his pocket, Mom went to the girls’ room. She borrowed Meeghan’s piggy bank from which she liberated two dollars. With piggy bank in one hand and two dollars in the other she walked back to Ryan’s room. When she got there Ryan was standing next to his bed. His arms were folded. When Mom entered the room he said, “WELL HELLO TOOTH FAIRY.”

He had set her up so he could prove his theory that she was indeed the Tooth Fairy. Since she was completely busted there was nothing else to do but laugh and fess up. She did however manage to get a promise from him that he would not tell his sisters what he had discovered. Even money says that will not last very long.