Mom's here!

This morning our entire family all got into the minivan for a ride to Denver to pick up my mom. Since wife's mom and my mom are both "grandma", I wondered if RyanC would get confused. I tried to prep the boy on the ride there but he was more interested in looking for hot air balloons (there were none today) and airplanes.

It took some time to find grandma's luggage. It turns out that she waited at the wrong luggage area. Hmm... maybe it's no coincidence that I cannot find my car in the parking lot whenever I don't park in the usual spot. Good thing wife went in with RyanC to look for grandma and help her find her luggages. RyanC was shy around the "new" grandma. He kept on staring at her like he always do when he meets strangers. He did let grandma hold her though. He was just really quiet.. until we got into the minivan and grandma gave him some crackers. That broke the ice and then little boy started calling "ah ma".

Once RyanC warmed up to grandma, he only wanted grandma's attention. When we had lunch at a dimsum place south of Denver, he wanted grandma to sit next to him. Though he did reserve a closer spot for daddy then -- a small vanity victory for me. It was obvious that he preferred grandma when he only wanted the new grandma to feed him. We then went grocery shopping and he glued himself to grandma for most of the trips. By the end of the day when we got home for dinner, all he cared for was grandma! He wanted to hang out with grandma all the time. He also love the preserved radish pickles that grandma made -- it's from a secret recipe a relative learned by chance (it was pretty good I thought!). I had to pull RyanC away from grandma to get him prepped for bedtime! Maybe we should get her to read him stories so she can also put him to bed while she is here...