Jude

is one of my nephews. And he is one of the funniest little people you've ever met. With my brother's very blond, shoulder length hair and Miranda's smile, the squat body of a future goalie and the ever quiet voice of a librarian, he wins you over in a second.

He loves pink and yellow and is just about to turn two. He takes long naps in the late afternoon and when he wakes up my brother takes him to one of the restaurants my brother's company owns and gets him some rice and beans for dinner. He isn't a fast or perky riser from these naps. The first night we saw him, he was a little wary of us until he had his rice and beans.

Two days later we met up with him in the late afternoon at a resort for a family vacation. Ramona said, "If he is just waking up and not used to us when we get there, we should give him some rice and beans."