Thursday, July 29, 2010

Foreign Invasion on the Kingdom of Rai

You may still be in shock, Rai.
The other day, new (at least they seemed new to you) people started arriving, one by one, and taking up residence in Grandma and Grandpa's house. All of a sudden, there seemed to be a new face in every spot you had, until then, called absolutely your own. Who was that scooting around on your tricycle in the house? Who was that sitting up in the top bunk in your room? Who were those faces around the breakfast table? You spun your head, taking in everything, taking in nothing.
The worst of it was that it didn't look like they were just passing through. All these new people looked pretty comfortable, a sign that they would be here for a while. Yes, Grandma's and Grandpa's house, a place you could once, not long ago, call your very own, a place in which you reigned without any competition, had been overrun with visitors from who knows where!
This was all a bit tough for you to take in. You stomped in frustration, you made sour faces, you flopped to the ground, you cried. All in all, on a few occasions, you put on a pretty good show and, I have to admit, for a little while I couldn't help thinking about what life will be like in our place once the second baby arrives. Will you consider that arrival an invasion as well?
All this acting didn't last long. Very quickly, you got accustomed to all the visitors. Now, we could re-introduce them all to you. There were Uncle Sterling and Auntie Nicole with their daughter Gabby and there was Maryalice with her son Devon. Family from Hong Kong and Champagne, Illinois who had come all this way to visit. Not that many of them in all, but it sure seemed like it when they all stood around you in a circle, didn't it?
Now, you're making up for your initially inhospitable reaction by putting in your latest nights ever. You know they won't be here for long so you're staying up 1, 2, or even 3 hours past your bedtime, trying to squeeze in as moments as you can with your cousins, uncles and aunts. We may not see them again for a year so make the very best of it, Rai!

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