This post is dedicated to a very special girl. An adorable girl who I can't help but love. Hannah is one year old and the only niece I have. In fact, the way things are going, the only niece I'll ever have.
A special girl with a special name. Not only is Hannah's name a palindrome which is totally cool, but it's also special because it rhymes with banana. Hannah Banana is such a fitting name because she is such an adorable little monkey. Always getting into mischief but nothing too bad yet. Yet. Probably next year, I'll have to look back at this to remember how much of a joy she had been.
I can't get over how thick her skin is. You can discipline her and she'll cry for ten seconds, and then that smile is right back. She can fall off the furniture - because she's not as good of a monkey as she seems to think - and she'll howl for a moment, then get right back up there. She makes her older bothers look like a bunch of wimps. In fact, she already beats on her two year old brother. I'm afraid she's going to make some poor boy very VERY sorry one day for the rest of his life. Already I can see features of my sister coming through. She's going to be a bossy one :P
She also gives the best hugs ever. Real hugs, nestling her head against you without squirming and fidgeting with everything within arms reach. And not clinging on for dear life. So trusting. You can almost drop her and she wouldn't be concerned. You can toss her around and she'd think that's the greatest thing.
In those moments I sometimes pause in regret that I will probably never know the joy of watching a child of my own grow up and develop her own personality. But then I look at the four rascals (aged 5, 4, 2, and 1) when they are all together and I renew my appreciation for the peace I have at my home.
3 comments:
Rue,
You should give yourself a bit more credit. One day, you'll make a girl very happy. (Trite words, I know, but I'm in the same boat as you, and hope is the only thing I've got right now. :p)
Who knows - maybe the seating order in choir will be shuffled up and there'll be a new R2S2?
-RodBad
Ok Star Wars boy - clearly you haven't seen any of the choirs I'm in right now. Shuffle any of the choirs I'm in any way you choose and I'd still not be seated next to anyone for whom I'd even remotely like to be their C3P0. Although I did have one brazen senior seat herself in my lap on one occasion. But that's another story. Speaking of inside jokes and choirs, was there ever another res choir after I left uni? I think Mercedes was a bit cheesed with me for establishing the Pre-Choir festivities. Or perhaps it was because we ended up removing the 'Pre-Choir' part from the equation towards the end of the term. It would have been nice if that had turned into a legacy though.
But anyway Rodbad, you don't want to be on any boat that has anything to do with the one I'm on. What I think is the best idea for you right now is to cancel all of your plans to leave the country or whatever and follow me around. There are great girls all over the place who are looking for guys. I mean I figure they don't like me much, but they'd certainly go for a well-set-up guy such as you ;)
BTW... I thought this post was about my niece. How did you get me on this tangent??
I dunno, I just have a way of changing the topic. (Besides, that's what the last paragraph of the post meant, right?)
There was one more choir for a few weeks in Fall 2004 that Mercedes organised for Christmas Chapel, but that's it. (Also, there was no pre-drinking.) I tried running a choir in Fall 2005, but virtually no one showed up. :(
-RodBad
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