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Mia

December 27, 2008 11:30 PM

o, I've been home for a few days now, and I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon. It's been a really good trip.

My cousin Gloria has a four-year-old daughter named Mia. Mia is the cutest, funniest, most charismatic little girl I've ever met. Mia spends days when her parents are at work either at her paternal grandmother's house (where she's doted on by her father's mother), or at my mom's house (where she's doted on by my mother, my aunt, and my grandmother). The result is that she's the most ridiculously spoiled little girl in the world. Anything she wants to do, she gets to do. But she's still amazingly sweet and really smart. She just conveniently forgets to say please and thank you. And she apparently doesn't play well with others. And she's going to be a terrible teenager. But for now, she's just a sweetheart.

I hadn't seen Mia in two years, and I was excited to see her again. When her and her mom first got to my mom's house, Mia was scared of me. She's shy around strangers. But I kept trying to get her to play with me, and she eventually did. She's just the cutest little girl.

On Christmas Eve, we were at Mia's house. Mia got the vast majority of the presents. Everyone there got her at least one gift. Due to the fact that I don't get to see her often but still want her to remember me and look forward to seeing me, I got her two presents. Anyway, she was extremely excited the whole night, and behaved herself really well. She also listened to me when I told her to go and thank the people that had given her whatever present she had just opened.

By far, her favorite present was this coloring thing my cousin Kaky got her. Basically, the thing came with these "magic" markers and special preprinted drawings. When you "color," the white parts of the preprinted drawings fill themselves in with different colors and patterns. Mia loved it to the exclusion of all other gifts. She didn't even want to open other gifts, which wasn't something I had seen in a kid before. Anyway, she let me help her color, and it was fun.

Yesterday, Gloria brought Mia over. I asked her if she wanted to go outside, and she said she did. So we walked out to the backyard. She put her little hand in mine and walked me around, pointing out and correctly naming all of the different trees. "This is an avocado tree. This is an orange tree. This is an apple tree." I pointed out the sugar cane and the lemon tree to her, and she seemed impressed. Then she decided to point out all the "little" trees. She said "This one's little. And this one's little. And this one's little. This one's little, too, but not too little because it's big."

When Gloria decided that they had to leave, Mia said "No! I'm hungry!" and ran to the kitchen. And she got really sad when no one fell for that. So I picked her up and carried her to the car, and she calmed down a little. Her mom strapped her in and they drove off.

And, for the first time in a long time, I was really sad that I don't live closer to my family.



4 Comments


Dee said:

aw. little kids are the best ever, the way they explore every single thought out loud. that one's not too little because it's big. also, coloring with kids is about the best way to chill the eff out that i've ever found.

January 2, 2009 5:19 PM



Gabby said:

Heck yeah bay-bee keep them cmoing!

November 23, 2011 11:25 AM









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