Kurt and Michael’s Gift
When we returned from vacation there was plenty of mail waiting for us. Melissa gathered it for us and the pile she handed over was surprisingly big. Fortunately, most of it was junk mail, but there were two boxes — both for Victoria. The first was a lovely dress from Emerald (my grandfather’s second wife), but the second didn’t say who it was from.
Diana started opening it, then stopped. “The box is blue,” she explained. Yeah, that actually is an explanation.
I sat down and held Victoria on my lap while Diana pulled out the Tiffany box. “This has to be from Kurt,” she said. The card inside confirmed it. We let Victoria pull off the ribbon (she’ll grab anything that touches her hand now) and opened it up. Inside the bag in the box (that was in a bag in a box) was a beautiful silver moon-shaped rattle.
It was probably just the shininess, but Victoria smiled when she saw it (a trick she learned two weeks ago) . Then she reached out on her own and grabbed it (a trick she learned less than a week ago) and popped it in her mouth (a new trick).
She eventually was willing to shake it a bit when we showed her how it made a noise, but I’m not sure she found that nearly as interesting as the taste. A definite hit all around.