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Another Day in Grandma Land

By Pandora

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We do the Teletubbies dance then repeatly sing the chorus of Dalton's favorite song hey baby hey baby hey baby hey Bailey wants to see the dog-dogs so Animal planet it is we watch nakes and piders and elphanants I feel each new animals appearance a slap here, a poke there and look it's (a nake or pider or elphanant) I threaten to change the channel Bailey takes up a traffic cop stance in front of the TV one hand on her hip, a palm thrust toward me NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! they fight over who gets to sit in Papa's chair but end up on the floor amid every toy in the house I'm hungy, where's my cuppy? and we're off and whining No you can't go in Aunt Taryn's room and for the tenth time Papa went bye-bye (lucky him) Yes your mommy will be back soon (just not soon enough) I look at the clock, they've only been here an hour another day in grandma land Written April 10th, 2002 © on Apr 09 2002 04:36 PM PST   10 • 0 • 14

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