Steaming Mimi

This has been such a long two weeks. Mimi was in Georgia with Papa and suffered a stroke, so she was hospitalized there and brought here to Lexington just yesterday. The kids came up last night to cheer up their grandparents as only grandchildren can. They mostly climbed and jumped on their Papa. Carter brought Mimi a beautiful piece of artwork he worked especially hard on. He was very proud of it because he chose a pink/purple color scheme which he thought was Mimi's favorite color. He brought tape and he and Papa taped it up to the window because, he explained, it glows when the sun shines through it.

Today, when we came back, it was wild having the two boys in here and trying to help mother, too. Carter would climb up on the radiator and look out the windows and jumping off. Will kept trying to climb up Mimi's bed and using the break as a step. But Carter was so sweet. He kept asking Mimi if he could get her anything or do anything to help her. She asked him to rub her head, and he did - at least the best he could. She asked him to removed her houseshoes and he said "what are househoes?" After that was explained he looked at them and said "these are like bunnies!" So we started to call them her bunny slippers. The best part came when Mimi had her breathing treatment; the vapor surrounded her head and looked like smoke. Both of the boys were transfixed and in awe. Carter asked where all that smoke was coming from. I told him that it wasn't smoke, it was steam, like when we cook something. He said "Is Mimi going to be green beans?!" with a huge grin. Mimi started laughing - actually laughing - and responded "No, steamed broccoli!" That made Carter laugh.