My first nephew celebrates a decade! I remember how thrilled I was when Brian gave me the news from California (where he was living at the time). I was on a later shift at work so I bought some kind of celebratory food to share the great news with friends.
One of my goals for 2009 is to either go to Chicago to see Nick and his sister Anna, or hopefully they’ll come to Austin. Obviously, I want to see their parents too. Somara has never met any of them in person which is another motivation for the long overdue gathering. He’s probably old enough to make a better assessment of his uncle who lives in Texas.
When we originally met in 2001, he needed Brian or Linda as an interpretor (he was only two then) and I remember his fascination over my talking Bugs Bunny watch. Now he’s really into Star Wars like most boys his age so I have received a couple questions regarding the characters (one of the few times Brian is probably glad to have a geek brother). Maybe when I’m in the Chicago area we can check out the planetarium (or is it an observatory), a Chicago Wolves game (Blackhawks are too expensive) and he can give me a tour of his school. Brian says they have a Wii at home which probably means I can give Nick some real competition because my brother never liked video games by the time he started high school.