We returned Bailey and picked up Hayden around 5pm in Shelbyville. Hayden wanted to have dinner with us. The plan was to let him pick an option and that is what we would do. He chose driving to Georgetown, stopping at Taco Bell and purchasing dinner, taking it home and eating while we watched Star Wars. We agreed and set off on that course.
A little backstory reminder. This week of sleepovers all started with a telephone conversation with Hayden. I told him Claude and I were planning on watching all our Star Wars movies over several days. I do think I used the word 'marathon' in this but really meant over several days we would dedicate our movie watching time to only Star Wars movies. Joking, I asked Hayden if he wanted to watch them with us. Serious, Hayden said he could have his mother take him to Shelbyville in 45 minutes and we could pick him up there. This morphed into sleepover time and the week of Mini's was in place. Hayden's main goal was to watch all the Star Wars movies and he was up for doing them straight through without stopping. Hmmm....
The other thing that came up in this conversation was Hayden having his braces removed on Wednesday, July 8th. He felt a celebration was in order. Before his braces were put on, his mother took him to the store and let him buy one of all the theater box sized candies he loved and would not be allowed to eat with braces on. He enjoyed those before having the braces put on and hasn't had them since. Hayden's idea of what I am calling 'The Celebration of the Teef' was to reenact that candy eating. This led to melding the candy and the Star Wars movies. A list was provided to Grampa Claude who dutifully purchased everything on said list. The end result was this...
Now, this may be the only picture in the post about Hayden. He came with some specific ways to watch the Star Wars movies. We started out Wednesday evening in the basement on the big TV with Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace and Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones. Then it was time for old people to get their rest while young person stayed up until he was ready for bed. Again, very happy the Mini's are so comfortable in our home.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
This day started with Hayden sleeping in and it gave me time to get a good start on the laundry for Claude and me. I even logged some time on my laptop. I have finished the Ireland scrapbook and now will work on the Cruise and Train Trip in Alaska.
Hayden woke up and it was time for more Celebration of the Teef. This time we stayed upstairs to watch something called the Clone Wars. This is a television show that attempts to match up and fill in blanks of time with the Star Wars movies we think of as the six standard ones. This is animated and Claude and I were dubious at best about a day of animation. But we are good grandparents and wanted Hayden's celebration to be what he envisioned to some degree. We told him we wouldn't watch all the seasons of all this show. Prior to coming he found edited versions that summarized the series Clone Wars in a way that was acceptable to him and might meet our timeline of viewing time a bit better. It turned out that, at the end of the day, Claude and I were both happy we did this. These were fairly well written and the animation was very well done. Definitely not Tom and Jerry!! We did this days viewing upstairs.
Claude made chicken tenders and fries for dinner per Hayden's request.
Friday, July 10, 2020
This day I again worked on my laptop in the morning. Claude had a video conference call to handle. Hayden slept.
When Hayden awoke we started our television binge watching in the upstairs. It finally dawned on me why he was choosing upstairs. He was streaming these Clone Wars from his cellphone through the Chromecast. That can only be done on the living room television. While the television in the basement is lots bigger, it is also lots older and doesn't have the ports to plug in the Chromecast. I am slow some times but I get there!!
Hayden started us out with a version of the Clone Wars that was mixed with Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith. Again, I think Claude and I were concerned about this but they did a great job of melding these two together and we enjoyed it very much. Added a new dimension to our Star Wars viewing.
Claude would then do his walk on the treadmill. Hayden and I moved things to the basement for the rest of the days viewing pleasure. Claude popped pizzas in the oven and we were ready for the rest of the day of viewing.
We watched Solo and then Episode 4 - Star Wars a New Hope. Claude's favorite of all these movies is Episodes 4, 5, and 6. These are the first three made. These are the three we took our kids to and stood in the line around the theater. These are definitely family favorites from when our kids were young. Claude was one happy camper when we got to Episode 4.
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Morning was spent Blogging and working on my Alaska scrapbook. Claude came down to walk the treadmill and I told him I was going to bake the pan of cinnamon rolls for Hayden when he woke up. Hayden loves these little cinnamon rolls. Claude had a can with only 5 in it. I baked and then left this note. When I went upstairs and found Hayden was already awake, I told him there were cinnamon rolls on the island in the kitchen. We went around and I found that Grampa had already figured out the system and had his cinnamon roll. I asked Hayden what a visit to our home would be like if it didn't include cinnamon rolls at least one morning. He looked at me a matter-of-factly said, "Incomplete!" Building little memories that will last a lifetime.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Claude had a training class in Lexington that lasted all day long. He left at 8am. When Hayden woke up he came down ready to watch the Episode 9. We set up in the basement and enjoyed Episode 9 - The Rise of Skywalker. When the movie was over, it was time for Hayden to shower and pack up for his trip home. We stopped at Hardee's and got him something to eat and then we sped on to LaGrange. As we drove the storm clouds gathered in the distance. We made it to LaGrange without any rain hitting us. Then I turned around and sped toward home and, amazingly, missed all the rain even though there were thick storm clouds all along the way.
Hayden's visit was a LOT of television watching. But it was really fun to go chronologically through the Star Wars saga. We are happy he found a way for us to enjoy the Clone Wars cartoons without having to watch all the seasons. They added a nice rounding out to the story for me. I wish they would do that so Palatine's wife showed up somewhere instead of finding out he had grandchildren in the final episode. It was great to share our love of Star Wars with this grandmonster who has learned to love it from a newer perspective.
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