I remember the first time I saw my baby sister. I was with my Nanan Jan and Granddad Jim, wearing some sundress or other (I had a lot of those) and a fleece. I knew that I looked like a complete scruffbag but, upon seeing my mum, I decided that I had never seen anyone look that bad in my whole life. I was used to seeing Mummy in pretty vests with red in her hair. She looked ruined.

There was a little blurry bit here, although I distincly remember my mum's sister being there, on the left side of the bed. I went to the plasic cot by the window and peered in. Big gray-blue eyes and rosy freckled cheeks. My baby sister Ellie, I was told.

There was discussion over her middle name. I flicked back my blonde hair and in a sweet four-year-old's voice, piped up 'What about Rose?' All eyes in the room turned to me. I pushed my shyness away, determined to be involved in the life of my baby sister. 'She has rosy cheeks, pretty rosy cheeks. I want her to be Ellie Rose.'

I swear that when I next looked into the cot, baby Ellie Rose smiled up at me in her approval. I think that even if they'd have said they didn't like Rose, she would have always been Ellie Rose to me.

Ellie Rosy Cheeks is nine now. She has ginger hair to match the freckles and, sadly, loves Spongebob Squarepants. 

I still love her though.

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A challenge! A challenge I say! In honor of my first challenge on Protagonize, I issue the "First Time for Everything" Challenge! Objective: Write an anecdote about a "first time" experience. Try to make it something odd or unusual. Like the first time you (the narrator) had sushi, or did morris dancing. Or, if it's something more prosaic (eating a sandwich, walking in the park), maybe something out of the ordinary should happen. Something that would make that mundane occurence vividly memorable. Guidelines: -I was thinking the first sentence could be "I remember the first time I...", or some variation of it. -keep your entry to one chapter/post/thingy in length; just sequel your entry onto whatever entry happens to be last. I'm not sure whether or not I'll judge. I'll update this if I decide to do so. Good luck, godspeed, "Force be with you", Feliz Navidad, etc, etc, etc...

updated Jan 21 '09 by g2LaPianistaIrlandesa