My Geek Baby

Indira was the model grandchild during our first road trip to visit the grandparents. She slept in the car and in noisy restaurants while I dined on fresh seafood. She giggled on command. And she seemed to save up her crying jags for bedtime. Well done, little one!

I grew up next to a duck pond where baby ducks often showed up in early spring. This year, they arrived in a cardboard box! No one knows why two young women would keep baby ducks, but once they were six weeks old the moms wanted to release them into the wild.

At first the baby ducks chirped and peeped in distress as the women walked away but eventually they made their way near the water. I walked toward them with bread crumbs but they weren’t about the jump into the cold water. My mom suggested I pick one up and place it in the water but I’d been pooped on once as a kid and didn’t want to repeat that. Plus, those little beaks are sharp!

The forsythia were in full bloom in early April.

Also, Indira got to spend some quality time with her great-grandmother, Mimi, the family matriarch, who turns 94 next month and can still beat the neighborhood card players in Bridge. Note to my cousin who also recently had a baby: Mimi suggested that we need to each have one more child.

Wait, I think Indira wants to say something about the trip. Thanks SuSu and Pop Pop!