In telling people the kind of person my dad is over the past couple days, I've shared a couple of times how involved he is with both of his grandkids. One of the things he does is take Zoey to preschool and pick her up. He gets so into her preschool and learning that he has a little calendar in his room of all of Zoey's "big preschool events". For "nature day" all the kids were supposed to bring in a nature item, and he offered to help her go collect something. All the other kids brought in leaves or sticks. My dad and Zoey went and collected walnuts. But it doesn't end there. They made an entire "walnut display", showcasing walnuts completely in the shell, walnuts cut in half so that you could see the inside pod, walnuts with the inside pod opened so that you could see the walnut pieces that we all are familiar with eating, and then a store-bought bag of walnuts. He thought the kids would be interested in seeing where the walnuts they eat actually come from. And Zoey got a huge kick out of it.
Her preschool also has "color day" on Thursdays. Each color day, they wear a shirt of the specified color and bring in a show-and-tell item. So on Yellow Day, all the kids show up wearing yellow shirts. Well, my dad honored each and every color day too, he always wore yellow on Yellow Day, orange on Orange Day, etc. I always thought that was completely adorable and really showed how much he truly is an amazing grandfather.
Here's a picture of him taken with the kids last 4th of July:
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