Late Update on Easter

This is a week late, but I thought I'd share this photo of my older niece starting her first Easter Egg Hunt (I tried to post a video but since my folks have dial up, that didn't work well!). Miranda LOVED her first Easter Egg Hunt and as you can see she LOVES Dora! Her eggs were Dora and Diego related and she had a blast finding her eggs that her dad "hid" around our yard. They were here for Easter weekend and it was fun to see her hunt for eggs.

The visit was good with them as all visits were, but I noticed a bit of change in Miranda (pic above). She's 2 yrs old and 10 months---almost 3! How hard to believe; she's growing up way to fast and has a mind of her own. She is intuitive and inquisitive--in my opinion more so than she should be at her age! But I guess that's good. The last time we visited her which was a week before Easter, she asked me ONCE "what happened to your eye?" and I simply said "yee-yee's eye (yee yee is what she adresses me in chinese custome) just hurts" (which it really was that day and had been for some time). She left it at that and moved on; however, this past week when she was her, I don't think she was accepting of "yee yee's eye hurt" and kept asking me what happened. Now, I thought to myself "how can you explain this to a two year old?". I was a bit frazzled. My mom told her that "yee yee has a BIG boo boo that won't go away. She seemed a bit more content with that answer and kissed my check and did her usual "aww, it'd be okay" which is what she says when someone is hurt or sad. I continued to think about our response to her and wished in many ways she was old enough for me to explain (or even her parents or grandparents) to her of how God made each of us different and special in HIS own way but either way, God is ultimately the Creator! Oh, how I longed to share that with her and know that if I do, she'd have a better understanding of it. I know it's not to late to do so, but it made me realize that soon enough, Miranda will have more and more questions like these, and though it'd be hard to answer, it can be a key for her to realize of God abundant love and saving grace! Questions to be answered solely by her parents, or even by her grandparents, or by myself will have one common base answer: God's glory! It shows how tender a heart can be at such a young age. What a blessing!!