My first niece!

It is so good to know that my brother had a baby girl, his first kid on the same day as my first kid though 10 years apart.I was so thrilled when I heard the news. I could hear the happiness in my brother's voice when he called. He wanted a girl first, though the horoscope of my brother predicted boy as his first kid.

It is true that every parent wants a healthy kid and doesn't bother much about the first kid,but it is always nice to have girls as the first kid in the family. I am the first kid, my mom is a first kid too. It does matter!! Girls are more mature than the boys and so understand everything better and have a sense of responsibility towards their younger siblings. Every sister also has a mother's instinct, though to a lesser extent maybe.

My niece is so cute just like how my daughter was and is.

I always had something speacial with this brother. We were in the same school, we were at the same place for college and then when I got married and he got a job,we were in the same city,in Hyderebad, and he came to stay with us .We have a special bonding and our first girls proved us right! We share everything or rather used to share a lot of things, though now after his marriage, he prefers to keep a lot of information from me.

For his marriage, I was the one who took up the responsibility to find a girl for him. All the alliances in the matrimonials were scanned by me and a list of good eligible girls was sent to him after I contacted them and they replied. I don't know how much my sister-in-law knows, but if I didn't like a girl, I didn't send them to him!!! And so she came into the family with my consent first. There was a time when my brother wanted to keep this girl waiting but see more matches to find somebody better still, I said no to him. That was not right. Of course, it goes without saying that she liked him and was just waiting for his 'Yes'.

Oh! why am I always drifting away from the topic. The topic was my niece , not her mom or dad, right? Of course, they are the source; but when I saw her first picture, she sleeping in my mom's arms in a pink sweater, she took my heart away. For a moment, I felt so bad that I was not there to hold her. Being far away in a different country is so bad at times like this. We miss all the good things in life. And seeing my niece, I felt that all good things come in small packages!!!

I am waiting for her to be named. Of course, once again from a list of names that I provided. Didn't I mention that my brother and myself share an unique bonding. I'm sure my younger brother might not like my saying this... hey, I love him too. And that too equally!! But he is 12 years younger than me and he is always a kid to me!Still my little kid brother.