Missing Lucia

It’s really been complicated to try to arrange a webcam call to visit with our 21 month old granddaughter in North America. By the time she comes home after daycare, it’s already the middle of the working day here. On weekends we have usually been somewhere without a good internet connection.

But this weekend we managed it. It’s the long Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S. and therefore she is at home during the day, and we were in a motel with a fast broadband connection.

Lucia had just woken up from a nap and was a little sleepy at first. I thought maybe she had forgotten us. But as she woke up she became more and more interested in playing with us. We were having our cereal so she had some cereal too, watching us between bites. When she finished her snack she got down from her high chair (“Out!”)and showed us her favourite books, carefully bringing each one to her Mommy’s computer and laying it on the keyboard in front of us. She brought us her mail from her toy house, showed us her elephant from the zoo, pointed to her nose (and our noses on screen) and finally started calling us by name: Pappy, which seems to have evolved from the Bapa she used to call us.

We miss you, sweetie.