another special day


Today marks a special day in history for my family…. my other little sister (Idania) turns 20 today.  TWENTY!  The teenage years chapter has come to a close and now she starts the first day of her “twenty-something” years.  Being 24 myself, it’s all downhill from twenty.  Oh, here’s a shot of her at my Honor Academy graduation:



(left to right: Idania (20), Erik, our Dad)
(we’re still waiitng for the official picture of mom)


She may be 20, but check out this parking job:



(ouck!  jk, she didn’t mean to, she’s a great parker!)

(below shot taken around the same time: Christmas)



 


And she’s still gorgeous no matter what angle we see her at.  In case you forgot already, her name is Idania (pronounced EE-thah-knee-ah) and at the age of 4, I couldn’t pronounce it.  The family thought it was cute when I simply made up a name for her: Yiyi.  So from the age of 4, to even today, now everyone in the family and all her friends call her Yiyi.  Now, the little baby that I held by mom’s bedside on the day of her birth (with the nurse looking nervously over my shoulder), is a twenty year old woman.  Wow.  My baby sister at 5 is one thing, but yiyi at 20!?  She won’t be reading this before tonight, but I have a small surprise for her this afternoon… I’ll try to post what it is after I do it. 


UPDATE:
Here’s the surprise I did… i had some friends from the cafeteria sing happy birthday to her on the phone as I called her in front of everyone.  Weird thing is that she expected something like that from me…. sheesh, what can a guy do to surprise someone these days? 

3 thoughts on “”

  1. Wish Idania a happy birthday for me! She’s a great girl and I pray that God’s goodness and mercy will be evident to her this year. On a side note…do you or do you know someone that has a copy of the poems you guys wrote last year for the sister cores?

  3. Anonymous says:

     Thanks Erik, that was very sweet of you… yeah, I dont really feel twenty… I think I’m just finally starting to feel 19 and now it’s gone… oh well, but isn’t that how it is… you dont feel your previous age until it is gone… anyway… thanks for being a goofy big brother, it makes me smile, love, yi

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