Every Sunday, the question is the same. Which comes first, the Times crossword or the blog post. Today, the crossword won.

In part, that is because our two grandchildren spent the night with us, to give their mother (their father is away for a few days for a family bar mitzvah) get some serious packing done for their Tuesday move to their new house.

Neither Edie nor I slept much last night, being sure that four year old Izzy, sleeping not in an available bed, but in his sleeping bag on the floor, would wake us mid-night. Of course, he didn’t,  sleeping from about 9 until 6:30.

This morning, until his mother arrives, he is “wrestling” withhis giggling sister, and watching Wonderland, a children’s math ccartoon program, which he alternates with Numberblocks, another. Both seem to be instructive, and his ability to work with numbers seems pretty good. He also likes to quiz the adults: “and what is 78 and 31 and 269?” On Wonderland this morning, while seemingly skipping only one or two numbers, the show taught him how to count to a googolplex. He tells me that googolplex is the biggest number, so I ask him whether googolplex plus one isn’t bigger.

He thinks a bit, and reluctantly tells me “yes”, but then 10 year old Joan intervenes and tells me “no, because in theory a googolplex doesn’t ever end.” This stops me in my tracks, and I accuse her of engaging in philosophy, not mathematics.  But I assume she is correct.

Yesterday, we took them to Michelle and Josh’s boat, on a cool and windy day. The boat didn’t leave the slip, but we all had a good time, even dog Zeke.

We had dinner at Dockside, a short walk from their boat, and Izzy, who is a very active, restless, and determined kid, found a new BFF, Blake, on the restaurant lawn. They seemed to be clones in every way but looks.

As we wait for their mother to pick them up, Joan and I have been told we are now on a mission, that a bad guy has entered the house, and our job is to find him before he finishes his dastardly deed. What is the bad guy trying to do? He is trying to steal our TV connection.

After they go home, hopefully I can close my eyes for a few minutes before our 2 pm theater tickets. We are seeing Paradise Blue at Studio. Then, home in time to watch the Nats sweep their series against Arizona? In their ladt 4 games, they have scored 38 runs. If they win today, they will be only 1 game under .500, back were they were before losing 8 games in a row.

That’s it for today. Gotta find that bad guy.