The people that got us through

First of all... Christ is Risen!! (to which you all answer, "He is risen indeed!!") Of course this is for my Christian friends. To my Jewish friends I wish you blessings this Passover and for my non religious friends I wish you warm and joyous Spring days.

Yes, I say Christ is risen today because in our church we celebrate the resurrection on Easter Vigil. It seems strange that we observed Good Friday just yesterday and the next day we are pulling the guy out of the tomb, but that is what we do.

D's sister and brother-in-law arrived on Thursday from California. In tow was our 3 1/2 year old niece B. She is currently the only grandchild and quite aware of that fact. For 3 1/2 she is incredibly smart.

Yesterday afternoon D and BIL were in the living room (at D's parents house) playing xbox. I tried to sit in the chair and read, but that just was not going well. I thought I would use my time to do one of my Russian language lessons. I have 2 of the lessons loaded onto my iPod. So B comes into the room and asks, "Uncle D, what is Ammie Missy doing?" D replies she is listening to music. (He didn't know I was listening to a lesson) A little while later she comes over to me and says, "I don't hear any music." She gets right in my face. "Ammie Missy, I don't hear any music."

So I started talking to her in Russian. She looked at me like I had 2 heads. Then I put one of the earphones in her ear. She heard the person speaking Russian and then I would repeat it. Then she would try to repeat it. The funniest part was at one point the speaker says, "now say please." Be says, "Please," in English. She thought the female speaker was me.

She actually was picking up some of the words. She can almost say "excuse me" and "please." When she couldn't repeat what the speaker was saying she would say, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." It was hilarious!!!

When we were done with the lesson she crawled up into my lap and we listened to music. She laid there for about a song and a half. I guess she wasn't too impressed with Teddy Gieger. I told her his "Confidence" song was my favorite. Her reply, "my favorite is playing ball with Papa" and off she went.