Saturday with my Grandson

[Ramfins59]

This weekend my daughter, her husband and my grandson will be up here in western PA from VA for the Memorial Day weekend BBQ & "party" at Brian's brother's home about 20 minutes north of us in Zelienople.

On Saturday my daughter is going wedding dress shopping with a friend who is getting married this summer. She will be dropping off my 3 year old grandson with me so he can spend the day with Grandpa. I have 3 snap kits all ready for us to work on... an Impala Police Car (he likes "Official vehicles" as his daddy works for the FBI, his uncle works for Homeland Security, and a neighbor in VA works for the Secret Service. They all have "official work vehicles".), I also have a Humvee, and a Helicopter (he likes them but calls them "Hockalipters".

I'm looking forward to having a great old time with AJ. When we talk on the phone he always asks "What did you build for me?"

[1930fordpickup]

Awesome.

[Tom Geiger]

Sounds like a date! Have fun and take pictures.

[High octane]

Sounds great Richard, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. My grandson is under a year old and I've already got a Lionel set for him to go under the tree this Christmas. I'm gonna love it, and I hope that he does too. LOL!

[BIG NICKY]

i love it when the little one starts saying their versions of bigger words....my little one used to call airplanes "otins" and it took us for ever to figure out what trying to say

[PappyD340]

Have FUN Rich and ENJOY!!

[slusher]

Sounds great Rich, my grand daughters are coming up around the 4 and I am looking forward to it...

[Brizio]

Great, also because it is a way to show young generation the hobby. I wish I had this opportunity with my grandfather.

[Brett Barrow]

Cool. My grandfathers both supported my modeling by buying me models, but since they weren't modelers themselves we never sat down and worked on kits together. I tried to get one granddad into modelling, but he didn't had the patience for it. He bought a couple of kits for the flea market and ended up giving them to me.

Start 'em young!

[johnbuzzed]

Enjoy your time together with him, Rich. Build all those kits and don't forget to play with them! We were up on the Island last week for Shan's MBA graduation and I made sure to spend some quality time with both grandchildren, including wiffle ball, mini golf, a few spins in the rental Camaro and Godzilla 3D with Ayden (Emmie took Alyssa to the Wizard of Oz flick). Those days went by way too fast...

[teardrop96]

When my son (now 36) was a little past 1 year old he called my kits Boot-Boots! yeah just like a car motor...Have a blast. In fact my son and grandson will be in DC this holiday weekend, and I will be in Texas waiting for my obligatory tee...

[cdan delivery]

Rich, I was thinking about this because my granddaughter just turned 4. I mentioned trying to make something with her ( she told me she wants to make a model with her Pap) to my wife and she asked me to go easy on her - I thought I had the newest Albert Einstein.................

Anyway, I will be getting something to share and display.

Thanks for sharing!

[bbowser]

Sounds great Rich. My two are 2 1/2 and 15 mos so they're not quite there yet, but they would sure love to be able to play with "pop-pop's" cars in the display case

[Harry P.]

You're a lucky man, Rich.

[Ramfins59]

Thank you all so very much for all the great comments. I'm really looking forward to this.

Harry, your time will come soon enough my man.

[Silver Foxx]

Enjoy this time in your life , this is quality time , as a grandfather myself I can understand how much this means . One day he might be building awesome models like his grandad .

[disabled modeler]

Great to hear Richard...Start him off building early a master builder in the works.

[jeffs396]

Cool Rich!

Don't forget to post bench progress pics!

[niteowl7710]

My son is 15 months old, and today he came over while I was looking at the instructions to the Meng F-350, and he started pointing at the diagrams going "Waaaz zat? Waaaz ZAT?!?!" Hope that curiosity lasts long enough to indoctrinate a new generation. My Dad got me into building, but then never really built much of anything (with me or solo) afterwards.

[charlie8575]

Looking forward to the pictures of this.

My parents' friends of about their age or a little older love doing all kinds of stuff with their grandkids, and my friends who have children for the most part like them doing things with them.

My parents have only me, and well, I never got married or anything like that, but I try to make up for it with my friends' kids a little.

Charlie Larkin

[ToyLvr]

Good for you, Rich.

And for those who have a kid in their life who's too young to start building, you can always take the kid to a car show. See attached...me and my grandson...

[Ron Hamilton]

I too enjoyed life with "Grandpa". He was a master craftsman who would show me woodworking, painting, auto mechanics, etc, and he did not do these things as a profession. Your grand son is a lucky fella.

[Ramfins59]

My day with A.J. was awesome. The first words out of him when he walked in the door were "Let's build a model."

Before we started (actually, before I started), I gave him a stakebed pickup truck that had a liftgate on the back and stacks of oil cans and oil drums as a truck load. It had AAA batteries so the head and taillights lit. He was more happy playing with that truck than he was interested in building a model. I wound up putting together an Impala Police Car for him, which he loved. He did "help" a little by squeezing the sprue cutter to get some of the parts free. Then he wound up removing the stakebed sides of the truck and carrying the Police Car as a flatbed load.

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[Ramfins59]

The above post doesn't show up, so I am "bumping" it.