I was very pregnant when we moved up north,
so it was more than a year later before I took
our little girl back to the city for a visit.
She had never seen anything like a big city before
so I was sort of nervous about how she was going to
react to it all.
We were downtown, I remember. "Walk Like An Egyptian"
was playing on the radio and we were getting
out of the car and I was holding her in my arms and
that was when she said her first word. It was "Sky".
I can still see her little baby-fingers reaching up
as far as she could and hear her insistent little
baby voice saying, "Sky! Sky!"
I kept saying things like, "Look! Look at
the big bus. Look at all the big buildings."
But she just said, "Sky!" over and over again.
It was the only thing she recognized. It was her
big blue security blanket.

01/21/2008