A Week With Our Grandson Kam

Every morning, just like clockwork, Kam was up and ready to face the day between 6:00 and 6:30a.m.! He is a fascinating 6 1/2 year old little boy who loves clocks and clock towers, signs, math, flags, and the weather! If I want to know the time, I ask him. If I want to know the weather forecast, he will find it out by checking The Weather Channel app OR, he will draw and write a "Kam" forecast in his spiral notebook and share it with me!

Big Ben is his favorite clock tower, and the Westminster chimes too. Was it just a coincidence that the first two movies we watched featured Big Ben? Kam wanted to keep watching the same scenes over again and again! As for clock towers here in Florida, I had never noticed any around this area of Palm Beach County, but we managed to find two of them to visit, plus a clock on an ornamental pole in Lake Worth! Kam was happy!

Our condo doors sport official-looking "Exit" signs, courtesy of Kam, Nancy, and our printer! While Kam was here, my iPad was never in danger of a low battery because he loves to plug electronic gadgets into their chargers.

As the week went on, Kam seemed to accept "homework time" every morning more readily. Of course clock face pages are the favorites in his math workbook. When there weren't more for him to do, his mother made one from scratch! Then he drew one in his notebook for her to do....he likes to write the directions for her to follow. He does NOT like two-sided worksheets however! I wonder if he will be a test-writer when he grows up, or a climatologist, or a clock maker?

Then there are the ocean and the swimming pool! Kam loves both! In the pool, he and his mother had many swimming races from one end to the other. He and Grandpa played games of water frisbee, which were scored like tennis matches. Kam likes to keep score. By the way, no seniors were harmed in the course of these activities! At the beach, Kam can keep himself busy digging, pouring water, and tossing sand or shells into the ocean. This year he discovered how much he liked wading out into the waves and jumping over them! His other favorite pastime is alternately chasing the birds and feeding them popcorn. He likes to suck them in with the food, and then run at them when they come to get it!

Kam and his mother made 24 Valentine cards one rainy day. Of course they put clock faces on the fronts, and on each one he printed "It's time to say....Happy Valentine's Day! Love, Kam".
I was impressed!

Last year, I found a little game, Skillball, at the thrift store. It consists of a little metal half-round tray with holes in it, and twelve marbles. Each hole has a point value. Little did I know that it would become a source of rainy-day fun for Kam and Grandpa! Tournament were held and Kam did a lot of adding up scores in the process...a good thing. I hear that they used a cardboard box to make one for play at home!

Early in the week, Kam was NOT ready to read books to me, but by Friday, he did so willingly. Actually, we alternated reading pages. I made a list for his teacher of the five books that we read, and I signed it. I hope she was impressed with this, AND with the fact that he completed ALL his homework!

On his last morning here, he came to me and said, "Grandma, may I please use your iPad?" That, and my bedtime hugs were my very favorite moments of the week:0)

P.S. When I read over this, it made me tired! No wonder I was falling asleep every night before ten! Nancy, you are the best mother that this boy could have! God bless you both!