Life

My mother in law had a "man friend" named Marvin that she had met at the auction.  He was the only grandpa figure that the kids knew.  He passed away about six months ago.  We were down at my mom's for the weekend visiting Heather and Dan.  Saturday evening Dan spent the evening playing cards with Rachael and Jake.  They really enjoyed it.  When we got in bed that night Jake looked up at me with the most gut wrenching sad look on his face.  He asked me when Marvin was going to wake up.  Then he said that Marvin was his best buddy ever.  I guess he was thinking that he was replacing Marvin with Dan as his best buddy and he felt bad.

After Marvin passed away Anita began seeing another man friend, "Howard".  He has known the family for many years.  The kids really enjoyed him.  He passed away Monday.  We went to the visitation last night to be there for Anita.  We were sitting with the family gathered around and Anita hugged Rachael and said "Well Rachael, Howard is gone.  What are we goin to do now?"  Without a beat Rachael said "You'll just have to go to the auction and find another one."  We all starting laughing and felt bad for laughing at the funeral home but it couldn't be helped.

Another One From Jake

I have noticed lately that Jacob has had a hard time hearing.  He keep asking what and wanting the tv turned up so he can hear it.  I was starting to get worried.  He was having a hard time listening to what he was told the other day so I asked him if he wanted me to knock the wax out of his ears.  He didn't know what earwax was so I had to explain that to him and how sometimes we have to use Q-tips to clean our ears out because of the earwax.  So the other day on the way home from school I was talking to him and he kept saying "What did you say?", so I told him when we got home I would clean his ears out for him.  After a few minutes he said he wanted me to use those sticks with the pillows on the ends to clean his ears out.  I didn't know what he was talking about until I had him explain to me what he meant.  "The little sticks with the white fluffy stuff on the ends that we have in our bathroom."  So when we got home he laid his head in my lap so I could clean his ears out.  I asked him if he could hear now and he said "That's much better."