May trip to Wichita – Part II: Visiting Grandma Jo

When we were visiting Grandma Jo at the hospital, we took over the waiting room for our time together.  The kids, sensing the opportunity to perform for a rapt audience, took full advantage of the attention:)

05-20-11_Wichita_004

Grandma had her hair colored specially for our visit.  The hue?  A sunny marigold:)

05-20-11_Wichita_008

05-20-11_Wichita_022

05-20-11_Wichita_023

There’s always a lot of laughing when Grandma Jo’s around.

05-20-11_Wichita_024

These two monkeys, too, caused quite a bit of silliness…

05-20-11_Wichita_025 I thought this was so cute.  Grandma Jo was smelling Sylvie’s feet to see how they smelled.

05-20-11_Wichita_029

05-20-11_Wichita_030 One of my favorite images from the trip…

05-20-11_Wichita_037

We came back for a visit the next day and settled in to the now-familiar waiting room.

05-21-11_Wichita_187

Andrew loves the game Blink, and here he and Grandad duke it out.

05-21-11_Wichita_210

 

Andrew and Grandma Jo play some sort of arm-raising game.  Perhaps they are practicing their semaphore.

05-21-11_Wichita_190

So there’s our pictoral review of our visit.  Grandma Jo ended our visits with an elbow bump rather than her traditional leg kick.  We’ll see if it sticks:)

05-21-11_Wichita_197

It was sad not to be seeing Grandma Jo either in her home or in her new apartment, but we certainly did have a nice time together, no matter where the location.  Grandma Jo is such a lively, vivacious woman.  It’s sad to know that her health is really causing her some problems these days.  I hope that she’ll have a health-filled summer.