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On Sunday Nancy and I went to New York to see our grandson. Jill usually
works on Sundays but she had arranged her schedule to get the day off but
was having some serious sinus problems which not only hurt, had kept her
from getting much sleep, so she was kind of bumping into walls on Sunday
morning and realized that it would be both painful and foolish to make
the trip.
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| Sammy in the playground by his apartment building. |
Nancy reading to Sammy while he has lunch. |
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| Sam's favorte stuffed toy animal "Moosie" holding the yarn kitten
Jill's friend Deirdre made for Sammy |
Sam opening a birthday present
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The grownups ate lunch while Sammy napped and then Adam and Nancy and I
went out for a walk so Adam could show us how one of streets is closed
off to traffic on Sundays and partly becomes a farmers' market and the
local merchants (for blocks) display their goods in the middle of the street.
We crossed Houston and continued on to Tompkins Square Park -- The plan had been that Leah and Sammy would meet us there but there
was a "peace" rally going on (i.e., some shrill-voice harridan
screaming amplified obscenities mixed with "Bush is the greatest terrorist
in the world" and "Israel is a terrorist nation" and praise
for those nice folks in Hezbollah plus something about dreaming that veterans
would focus their weapons on the White House... followed by a very loud
but talentless band screaming endless obscenities in lieu of lyrics) which
made us consider that this made the children's playground in the park a
somewhat less than ideal environment for a three year old to play. Adam
phoned Leah (who had already set out with Sammy to join us) and we arranged
to meet at a different playground a few blocks away near Houston and 1st.
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| "This door leads to nowhere." -- I couldn't resist this picture.. a block or so from Tompkins Square Park. |
Why is it kids would rather climb up slides rather than sliding down them?
Sammy has just climbed the corkscrew slide on the left while Nancy and
Adam watch. (Note the other kid climbing up the slide on the right.) |
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| Sammy about to push me down a slide. |
Leah & Sammy & Adam |
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Fearless climber... |
We managed to get back to their apartment, grab our stuff, and get to Grand
Central just in time to catch the MetroNorth 7:09 train. Almost an hour
and three quarters or so on the train and then a ninety mile drive home...
but 'twas a marvelous visit. Can't believe how big he is getting. Three
years old. Wow!
I had a physical a couple of weeks ago and last week I had blood tests and an exercise stress (treadmill) echocardiogram... Today I had a chat with my doctor to find out how I did... She said I did fine on most of the tests... but not all. Details tomorrow. (Ooooh, a cliff-hanger ending. <evil_laugh> Bwwwhaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha....</evil_laugh>)
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