Good Thing
April 12, 2007 | permalink

I met my niece (pictured here with my Mother) for the first time over the Easter Weekend. Isn't she cute?

While she is not my first niece (I have several on The Old Man's side, the progeny of my older half-sister, his daughter from a previous marriage), she is the first child born to any of my siblings on my Mother's side, and as such is also Mom and Red's first Granddaughter. You can imagine, then, how she was doted on while she was here for the holiday.

The night before Easter, after dinner, we colored the eggs. It's something we do every year, whether there are going to be kids around or not. The idea is that everyone in the family ends up with an egg just for them, made by someone else (obviously, you can't make your own egg!), which we then eat as part of breakfast the next morning. It's a lot of fun- of course we all try to get artsy and out-do one another, and of course our ambitions usually exceed our talent. Most of them come out fine, but there are a couple of sad looking Easter Eggs, most years.

This year, since The Little One was here, we 'hid' some eggs for her to find. The first few she didn't get it, which is not surprising. But after a bit she got really into it, not least because of all the attention and applause she got whenever she found one. We tried to get her to put them into the basket after she found them, but of course they went right into her mouth, every time... She has a few teeth in, and by the end she was succeeding in gnawing her way past the shell, if we didn't relieve her of the egg fast enough.

Like I said, cute...

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