Spent some fun quality time with my two-year-old niece this past weekend. Her curiosity about life is fascinating to watch. I love observing her reading a book to herself (a long drawn-out story about a duck in the water), or walking around at a mall and looking at stuff with her. Her little hand goes out toward a door and she says “door” or she sees a picture of a chicken and looks at me and says “chicken.” It’s amazing how fast her brain can keep up with our very jumbled adult world. She repeats our words back to us, loves to dance and sing, and her huge smile when you say her name just makes me melt.
Her favorite thing is to get hold of someone’s purse and clean it out, one item at a time. She was fascinated with my checkbook last weekend and the pen I keep beside it. I arrived home to find that she had scribbled on some of my writing papers and someone had printed out her name in large capital letters, probably her daddy, and underneath were her own scribbles. Her face lights up to use a pen just like us.
Her other favorite thing is our cell phones. She holds my iPhone in both hands and stares down at the screen (especially when it’s in camera mode) and then takes pictures of her feet. Then she tells me what she sees, “Feet. Pants. Socks. Mama.” I’m amazed how quickly she learned to press the right buttons on the iPhone screen like I showed her. She knows it’s Aunt Tricia’s phone and only touches it when I’m around. She learns quick. Mom called later to tell me that she was on her play cell phone and said “Hi, Tricia” just like I was one the other end of the line. And she throws back her head and laughs just like she sees her Mom doing during a phone conversation.
I think that was a great way for me to defrag last weekend, to forget about my writing clients and my deadlines and class homework and to just enjoy seeing the world through the eyes of a two-year-old. I hope I never lose that sense of discovery. I can’t get as excited about Veggie Tales as Daphne, but I do feel the same excitement when a piece of writing works or when I realize I’ve helped a client market better.
The joy at the simple things is what life is all about, I think.
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Daphne LOVES her Auntie Tricia!!!!!!!
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