“So, Grayson, I gotta say that we gotta listen to Grandma on this see, because, sometimes we gotta step back and look at stuff so it makes sense.”
Five-year-old Lil' Robert Ludlow was sitting in the Lego pile with six-year-old Grayson Ludlow, and both were looking at one of their great-grandfather's guides to architecture, looking at drawings of how he built what was then the new county courthouse. Their grandfather, Capt. R.E. Ludlow, was watching with affectionate chagrin about how they were applying the advice Mrs. Thalia Ludlow had given him some weeks earlier. Lil' Robert talked much more than Grayson, but somehow, he heard just about as much.
“Well, see, I got a lot to say, but, see, since I don't listen much I do listen hard,” Lil' Robert would say about this later.
The two youngest Ludlow grandsons were looking at the pictures in the guide, and drawing the figures that they saw as much as they could with their crayons and construction paper, but they were getting a bit confused about the huge county countryside because of course, the book could not contain it to scale.
“But if we back up, it makes sense,” Grayson said once he and Lil' Robert had propped the book up against the wall and then gone to the other side of the room. “Grandma and you are right!”
“Well, of course, because, see, Grandma,” Lil' Robert said. “iI do all I can, but, see, God, Papa, and Grandma.”
“I thought it was God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit,” Grayson said. “We just learned about the Trinity!”
“It is, but then under the three, there's the two – there's God doing His thing and can't nobody else do His thing, and then there's Papa and Grandma doing their thing,” Lil' Robert said.
“Oh,” Grayson said. “It's like a triangle over here, and then an angle over here – the three, and then the two.”
“Yeah, just like in Great-Grandpa's book,” Lil' Robert said. “It's like there's right angles, but then there's like right triangles, and that's another level!”
“You know,” Grayson said, “We are learning a lot from Great-Grandpa!”
“Yeah, so, when we get to Heaven we gotta thank him after we thank Jesus, and then find out what kinda fruit they got on the tree of life, because, see, they got a different fruit every month, so we gotta see what's in season.”
“I wonder if they have a Big Discounts for Your Loft up there yet,” Grayson said, “and if they don't, I'll volunteer if Great-Grandpa hasn't taken care of it already. But we're gonna be there forever, so, we got a lot to learn and a lot to do.”
“It's good that we got started,” Lil' Robert said. “I think we can build the county courthouse today, and we can put red ones in it so it's even better!”
“By the time we learn all this, let's graduate and go paint the town red,” Grayson said. “I heard Papa say that's what him and his friends did.”
“Sounds like a plan!” Lil' Robert said.
Capt. Ludlow put his head in his hands at his grandsons' misunderstanding of his graduation adventures, but raised a smiling face as they began, with their Legos, to build the county courthouse in model, with all the Lego colors they loved.