The Niece factor and eventful influences

The first such influence that I ever had was when my elder sister had her first daughter, I wasn’t there at that precious moment nor was I part of she growing up to be 9 years old, but I have had my experiences whenever she visited us. She now has the most adorable and impossible to convince of two daughters.

I always believed and over the time realised most of what has been for the fact that a girl child and eventually daughters have a higher emotional bonding with their parents and are the most precious ones to share love with. I had this privilege with two sisters and now with 3 doting nieces.

I write to share my experiences and the changes that have crept in slowly for the reason that I have a niece playing a major role in this else to which having to change me nor my way of life for either the good or bad has been a daunting task for my parents and anyone who tried.

It all started 35 months ago when my kid sister was blessed with what she calls the most beautiful gift she ever received, a daughter. For me it was one of the most memorable days, I called every number I had on my phone declaring to the world that am a proud uncle now.

Over the last couple of years my presumptions that I can very easily have my way with girls and am better at understanding them was all but trashed by my little niece. She stood to wrong me in everything that I have thought I know in making anyone pay me attention. I wasn’t prepared for this very attack she carries every minute whenever she is with me, she makes me fall on my knees to have her just to look at me when I am talking to her and many such acts i attempt to have her attention.

My experiences have been nothing but a traverse unfolding of events, moments that are making me who I am now, a very eligible baby caretaker, niece entertainer and most of all an experience to exhibit when I have my own baby

1. The poo poo situations: the only pooh I ever knew or learnt of was Winnie the pooh but wasn’t in anyways prepared for the poo poo moments, anticipating the moment of the Poo or just reading those expressions has become very important for any lapse in attention can end up in me cleaning up if not crying over the same on my loved carpet or my bed.
2. The diaper confusions: I have for the times purchased them for my niece but never was I of the imagination in changing them, what looks simple and easy is for the fact the most confusing art right from understanding which side of it is the front side and the back to putting them on her. Fortunately yet I haven’t gotten to clean the before and afters of the diaper change.
3. The remote wielder: I always have been fortunate to watch whatever channel I wish to at any given point without much of resentment from my parents or my sisters, however these privileges have slowly sunken to make way for the new boss, my niece. All I get to watch now are Baby TV and little more than anything but rhymes. Playing her channels to appease her has been of a paramount importance to me.
4. Clarifying the identity: Having to clarify that am the uncle has been the most visible and frequent of attempts I make whenever I go out or am in the crowd, she pulls in a lot of attention for the very looks she has got but having to make the lookers understand that I am still single and not taken to be a dad has been nothing but a tough job.
5. Changing your game and staying on top of it: Being part of the games my niece plays or watching her play has been the most difficult I am associated with. By the time I brace up to play her favourite game she winds it up to introduce another one. Perhaps a lesson in jumping the line whenever she wants me to.
6. The patient conversations and very high listening skills: I always have been very good at listening however to the select few whom I have deemed important. But having to be challenged at it and pay all of my attention to whatever she utters has been an integral part of us time. I don’t understand most of which she speaks but they are music to my ears as I have the first hand experience of her discoveries and the sweetness she expresses in explaining them to me.
7. Persuasion and frequent failures: I have but failed innumerable number of times in persuading her to listen or pay attention to me and have tasted failure at every other attempt I have made. She out rightly have slaughtered the stubbornness that was embedded in me and have made me compromise on everything right from accepting her poo poo on the carpet to she vandalising my room.

Of many such experiences to give a note of to the most beautiful moments that await me I shall live by to see my niece grow into the most amazing individual she can be and to the day where I get to chase the guys who are after her to the many such years I get to live and learn from her.