Cookie Capers (Ep. 102): North, South, EASTER West

Welcome back to the second episode of Cookie Capers, tales of my grandbabies.

Growing up one of four children (eventually five), spaced out two years apart, you don’t really think about how your siblings perceive events. You take their perspective for granted because at that age, it’s really all about you. You just assume that you all enjoy(ed) everything at the same level.

It’s not until you become parents (and again as grandparents) that you notice or are reminded that two years is a considerable distance, especially when one child is only 5 months old while the other is 2 1/2 years old.

Don’t get me wrong, some planning is universal. But when you’re planning events like birthdays and holidays, you have to go about them quite differently.

Take my two grandbeauties, Gianna (my warm, peanut butter cookie) and her cousin Kamari (my oatmeal raisin cookie) aka “Cheeseburger Jones”. A birthday for Gianna at her current age would involve movie characters and television shows that she knows well. Even the songs you sing, like the Birthday song, I guarantee, she can sing it better than you, right now, at age 2.

Baby Kamari, on the other hand, can have a piece of cake, and the world would be his oyster (for the record, he’s just now eating baby food from a jar, so no cake!). In fact, he still gnaws on my face from time to time, if he’s not out cold in my arms.

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Easter, in the Davis house, has always included the joy of receiving eggs from egg hunting and an Easter basket full of candy and little toys, dropped outside of our home door by old “stick and move” Peter Cottontail. And of course, he was long gone when we answered the door with our children, only to discover our surprise left behind.

A year ago, at 17 months, Gianna was walking and enjoying opening the plastic eggs for the miniature pieces of candy inside. She had no idea what day it was, but she knew that she had a tummy full o’ yummy!

Now, here she is, 29 months, making basic sentences and asking for what she wants. And she knows that’s money in your wallet, plus the power of having it.

She knows songs, characters on television, the alphabet, numbers, animals and their sounds, dances, questions, and the answers she wants.

So, celebrations for these two children cannot be the same. At least not at this age. Poor Kamari is just now sitting up straight on his own and laughing at Grandpa’s goofy sounds as his name is called.

And Kamari’s loving the bright colors, just like he did during this past Easter weekend.

Gianna? She was a little different. She had her hunt. And even though she loved finding the eggs, along with the sweet treats therein, she was even happier with the ones that contained a little something else…

Because these days, Lil’ Momma’s got a brand new bag.

And like Capital One, like I said earlier, she knows what’s in your wallet.

That’s why during that hunt, and every hunt from that point on, she rapidly and tirelessly searches North, South, Easter West…

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