Maia Meets Lorla - Holiday 2005

I think her heart was won the moment Maia mispronounced her name. 'It has been a long time since anyone has called me Lorla.' she said, smiling at Maia, and that, I think, was that.

Maia and Laura got on famously. Even more so after Laura :

• took her to the park and pushed her on the swings for half an hour without trying to move her onto another, less labour intensive, activity.
• gave her a mountain of Christmas gifts including bubbles and plasticine, books and bath toys
  
• made her some homemade pesto
• introduced her to Prince Mulder and his kitchen kittens (who make stew, so I am told)
• cooked her pancakes
• played with her every morning we stayed at Papi's house when Mummy and Daddy were far to tired to play

Maia has been born into two families with pretty complex family trees. Alec and I have two mightaswellbesiblings Gen and Jonothan, Pat and his brother Dominic have a much younger brother and sister from his father's second family.

All the family politics and feuds and fusses pass right over Maia, as they should. They mean nothing to her, and maybe, if we look through her eyes, they will mean less to us too.