Grandpa is Coming

The news this week is that Grandpa is arriving on Sunday.  How did Saturday get here so soon?  Tonight I said to Juliet, "Grandpa is coming tomorrow."  Juliet said, "Grandpa is coming tomorrow morning."  Then she high-fived me with both hands.  I guess we're both pretty excited.  Although I've hardly had time to miss Tom, I know he has been lonely.  It's hard to be the person left behind, still going to work and coming home to an empty house, eating dinner alone and missing all the action that is happening here in Paris with the grandchildren and Matt and Jeanne.

Tomorrow Matt will pick Tom up at the airport in the morning.  I hope it will be a nice day so we can all go to the park for a picnic and some play before nap time (nap time probably for both Juliet and Tom.)  Tom will be amazed by Juliet and how much more mature she is.  We spent ten days with her in July but her English vocabulary is so much larger and her overall sentence structure so much greater that it's surprising.  She is comfortable in English now, and tells stories that have lots of characters and lots of imagination, sometimes in English, sometimes in French and sometimes in Franglish.

I brought Juliet some books in English as well as a 48-piece floor puzzle.  She liked the books but I'm not sure she'll even want to have them read to her again; she is "into" chapter books now. Her parents are currently reading Peter Pan to her at night.  She has done the puzzle a few times, but each time it takes her less time to finish and I'm sure she'll grow tired of it soon.  For her birthday perhaps a 100-piece table puzzle is in order.  She is very patient and doesn't mind being challenged.  Maybe we'll even go birthday shopping while Grandpa and I are here this week.

The time changes tonight so we'll get an extra hour of sleep.  Even so, it's late and I am ready for bed.  Tomorrow is a big day!  Grandpa is coming!!