What is Death to 3-year-olds?

I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with explaining my grandmother’s passing to Judah. He’s nearly 3 years old now, and he doesn’t seem inclined to merely forget Grandma inside a few weeks. Which is good, I think, but it leads to interesting misunderstandings and odd feedback. When she first passed away I explained to him that we weren’t going to see here because she was sleeping and wasn’t going to wake up. He received that without comment, but later I heard him explaining to his aunt how we hadn’t gone to see GG because she was sleeping – so he had remembered. A few times, when he was feeling the need to get out of the house, he has suggested that we go see GG and I think I may have told him she wasn’t there anymore. Today we went out to Molalla to get the death certificates, a copy of the obituary, and to go to her old room to\’c3\’82\’c2\~get her TV for my brother. As I was getting his shoes on for him, I explained that we were going to Molalla and he said something about seeing GG, but that she was asleep – his solution was that we would sing to her (as we had been the last few months when we were visiting her as she wasn’t capable of conversing). Really, that comment made me the most sad, since her passing. That and going through her room picking up miscellaneous things that I wanted since what we left would be given or thrown away by the staff. Judah of course noticed that she was gone, as I told him she would be, but I really don’t know what he thinks about the whole thing. I shall have to ask him.