The morning started out with peanut butter and jam.
"What kind is it GG, what kind of jam?" Nectarine. "Do we have nectarine" he asked?
Maybe... "I like it, I like nectarine."
"I do not like honey."
Last week he jumped up and down in delight telling me about honey and that he loved it!
We get in the car, "I do not want to go see great grandpa Lorne," he says.
Sometimes we do things we do not want to, we both agree.
We will go see great grandpa Lorne.
Then we will go home to mama and daddy's house.
Great Grandpa Lorne invites him to give him a kiss on his hand,
as he sleepily opens his eyes to acknowledge our arrival.
Leo wants to make the bed move, he knows which buttons to push.
Not today, I say great grandpa is too tired today.
We play with cars, Lightning McQueen and his friends, race around the hospice room.
I move back and forth between the cars and the sometimes open eyes of my father.
Then he is awake and he notices his hunger.
He asks for beef stew, Leo races to the kitchen to help order it.
His two year old hands help me feed great grandpa.
It is time to leave, to go to mama and daddy's house.
I do not want to go to mama and daddy's house.
He wants to play with Lightning McQueen and my brothers, his great uncles,
whom he is coming to know in our visits here.
Sometimes we do things we do not want to do, we both agree.
gkn
Feb. 2017
