Tales of Li'l Foot

We’re coming down to the final stretch here folks.  I’ve got 2 nieces left after this nephew.  And Friday wraps up NaBloPoMo…aren’t you excited?  Can you just wait to not have to hear me blather on and on about what I’m thankful for every day?  Can you just wait to not hear me every single day period????Anyhoo…I got off on a tangent there…I guess it’s my own anticipation of releasing myself from the pressure of posting every day.  So ar so good though.  I made it further than I thought I could.Hoooooweeee…another tangent…must stay on track this time.  Nephew! Righto!  Li’l T is simply put, adorable.  He will without a doubt knock the girls socks off and break some hearts in 20, 30, 50 years when he’s allowed to date.  What with that full head of beautiful blonde locks and those TWO DIFFERENT COLORED EYES, one blue, one hazelish!  It’s the most amazing thing.Li’l T is a very smart little boy.  I think he was maybe 5 days old when he first said the word meteorologist.  Okay maybe not 5 days old, but he could say it before I could.  Okay maybe not, but it is amazing nonetheless.  I think he might’ve been one year old when he said it.Li’l T lives in Hawaii so my time with him has been rather limited to maybe 4 or 5 visits here or there.  I loved that I could be out in Hawaii to celebrate his first birthday with him in 2005.  It was a very short trip, but well worth it to go.  The day of his borthday we had set up a couple pools at the park where we had his party.  As we broke down the party afterwards I was in charge (rather, made myself in charge) or breaking down the pools.  As I leaned over one of the pools to empty some water out so it would be more managable, my brother came up behind me and pushed me ass over tea kettle into the pool…fun times…I love my brother, I really do.There are some really cool moments I’ve had with Li’l T in the short visits I’ve had with him.  When he was first born we went to visit and my favorite times from that trip are when I would take him out in front of their house, and sit in the sky chair with him and he would fall asleep on my chest.Then they came to visit Christmas that same year and we went for a ride up to my SIL’s aunt and uncle’s house and I had a little poto shoot of Li’l T on the floor of their house.  I’ll have to dig those up and post some, they were really cute and the lighting was awesome.They visited last year in June, which was a lot of fun.  We went to the zoo among other things.  They also just visited us last month and it was fun to go to the apple orchard with him and see Li’l T’s eyes get all big when he saw the tractor that he was able to sit on.My most memorable moments of Li’l T though are from our last trip to Hawaii, October of last year.  There isn’t much that he couldn’t say by that point.  The kid is a human dictionary.  Full complete sentences, probably more coherent than my blog writing most times.  We’d be riding in the car together.  And he would know when we would be approaching a certain place in our route and say the same things…for instance:The firehouse in Kahului on Maui: Doors open or closed daddy?  And then we’d actually pass by the firehouse and he’d tell us how many were open, how many were closed and which fire trucks were in the house…tanker, engine, ladder, etc.Or we’d be driving around the coast from Kahului to Kaanapali and we’d be about a mile from the tunnel on the road…and Li’l T would yell out 2 TIMES DADDY…2 TIMES DADDY…until we paid attention to him.  And we’d say “you want daddy to honk the horn in the tunnel 2 times?”. And he’s respond with a satisfied “yes”.A special moment for me was just this past October on my birthday when I received a phone call from my Sister in Law and after she had wished me a Happy Birthday she put my nephew on the phone and he sung Happy Birthday to me all by himself.  It was so awesome!  I am so proud to have Li’l T for a nephew.  He is a cute kid and I just love him.Love, Aunt LFM