Why you may ask......................
This is why
I want Jackson to know what cloth he is cut from. I want him to grow up being around his Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Farmer. He needs to see the Matriarch of this family cook every delicious meal with bacon grease and sew ANYTHING that needs fixing. He needs to sit with the Patriarch of this family and root for Dale Earnhardt Jr as he laps a race track 600 times. And when he is old enough, he needs to learn how to bait a fishing line from that same man. There is something to be said about being in the presence of those that have gone before us. We are making it a goal to take Jackson to spend the weekend with his Great Grandparents once a month.
We just got back from one of our trips to go see them and it was such a wonderful visit. They could not get enough of that baby!! More than once they shoo'ed us out the door, babyless. On the evening of our visit, Grandma had Jackson on her lap and she was asking him if he would blow raspberries at her and then she would show him how to do it. She would stick her tongue out and blow making her tongue vibrate between her lips, Jackson giggled with delight every time she did it. He would stick out his tongue like he wanted to do it back but then would just smile and giggle. It was the sweetest thing to watch him play with her like that.
The next day he had a major blowout and what did Grandma Farmer do, strip him down and plop him in the sink for a rinse. Forget the wipes, lets just soak him....HE LOVED IT!!!
And so did she.....
It is moments like these that motivates us to get Jackson to see his great grandparents each month. I never got a chance to know my great grandparents and since Jackson gets to, I am not about to let him miss it. They are something special.
Who else is going to teach him how to blow raspberries.
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