A Thanksgiving Weekend - Prologue

This is the beginning of the Thanksgiving Weekend. J's brother has arrived, dropped off the kids and gone out with friends who are taking him to celebrate his birthday. I was being a bit antisocial, hiding out in the basement, feeding a mild computer addiction (damn it, why won't Cinelera import my video properly ?!?), but I finally shook that off and came upstairs. My baby niece speaks - she can say "Uncle!". That is sweet.

Later I hear her say "Daddy" and "Chandler". Well, I'm glad that "Uncle" is part of her vocabulary now.

J entertains the children with her new laptop.

I doze off in the armnchair, to wake up when I hear my baby niece calling, "Uncle, wake up!" This is my niece - I held her when she was five days old. I held her when she was a few months old and was crying, I held her and sang to her until she stopped crying. Now she's two and she recognizes me as her uncle, and she can tell when someone is sleeping and she knows how to say "Uncle, wake up!". The marvels of life.