Weekend Update: Shades of growing up

After a long time we had a leisurely weekend to ourselves and I just loved to spend some good time  with you princess.

The party started from Friday evening itself when your papa decided to take us out for a movie.

On the way you did a nice act of kindness by giving last piece of your favorite biscuit to another kid at red light. It didnt take any effort for me to coax you into it, I asked you whether you will share and you kindly agreed without any second thoughts.

The movie wasnt very interesting, so we did our part of goofiness and sat in the another audi after the intermission of first movie. It was half shor in the city and half zokommon:)  We loved our mischief and laughed for a long time on this.

Saturday, towards evening you did something that actually inspired me to do something for you.

You were bored and wanted me to entertain you and I was sleepy so I gave you a difficult task.

" If you go and do clean up of all your toys I will take you to swings" and then i closed my eyes thinking that you will get dissuaded and will not disturb me.

You not only understood this whole sentence in english but also came to me after 15 minutes to tell me clean up is done. I got up to check and couldn't believe you actually did a nice clean up that too without any help, all toys in the respective boxes and in the toys drawer, the place was absolutely clean.

I really got inspired and immediately we went to swings.

On swings after half an hour another kid came in to ask for her turn and after little bit of resistance and negotiation you actually relented.

Sunday, was your fun day with Kavya at home, you were exuberant, I wish you two be buddies as your mothers are. After that we had the haircut during which you cried too much and after wards your were happy to be called cutie pie for the rest of the evening.

Love you princess for all the reasonableness, kindness you show at this young age.

Game of Patience

Two consecutive days in different shopping malls and two different difficult tests of patience.

One, sitting through a 40 minutes meeting in a cramped meeting room with no space to move and no permission to speak or make any kind of noise.
Second, enduring 1 hour of selecting and trying out different dresses in front of trial room with no freedom to run around and enjoy.
Excellent performance on both counts, incredible patience shown for a toddler.

On both occassion, to start the journey towards home required a lot of patient persuasion, incentive of icecream and toys and finally a patient listening to 20 minutes of howling and screaming without getting upset and irritated.
Irritation was there for sure which was endured with silence, average performance shown on both counts for a mother..

You win hands down in this game Princess:)

Mixed Emotions

I feel so happy that you are mostly like me, still sometimes I feel few things you shouldn't have picked up from me may be like my loud voice.

Today, I was faced with this happy unhappiness more strongly than ever before.
We went to school and realized that we have missed the Parent Teacher Meet on saturday due to some confusion. An informal PTM started and I was given your report card, your works of painting and crafts and was getting a general update on you, when you interupted me with a sweet Muma, mumma, I looked at you and you very sweetly told me : Bye . Bye Mumma, and the look on your face said, "Ab jao bhi".

I was like.............................GONE BLANK.....

I knew this day will come and will come sooner than anticipated that you will wait for me to go so that you can do whatever you wished and I knew this because I did the same. What I was not ready for was that it will come soooo soon.Much too soon ..

Your teacher very happily declared you are very confident and independent. May God keep this confidence and independence intact and  May God give me wisdom to enjoy it.

Doting Ajji

Most of the posts I am writing on this blog are for myself, but this one, princess, I wish even you should read and cherish.

I always feel sorry for your misfortune regarding your grandparents. You could never see your Nana, Ajja and Nani left so early that you will never have any memory of them, once you grow up.

But, God has been kind to  compensate it by giving you world's most loving and doting Ajji.

She has been taking care of you even before you were born.

She used to cook all my favourites food so that you can be happy inside me.

She took care of me and you together.

After you were born she just couldn't take herself away from you.

You fall ill, she kept a fast.

You had dengue, she came running from bijaur sitting in an ordinary bus.

Till date whenever she is around I never bother to think about your food and milk because I know she is planning for your dinner even before you finish your lunch.

The photograph below bears testimony to the fact that she is single handedly carrying out the role of all four grandparents.

God Bless and Kala Tika for Ajji!

After a long break

First day @ school and day care after a long break..

Lovely reception you got from teachers, and I was too glad to see Vivaan so happy to have you back.
but what delightfully surprised me the most is that some of the parents actually told me that they missed you..

Last but not the least, Ishaan dada was also so happy to see you.:)

Way to go princess, you really know how to win hearts...

A memorable evening of Role Reversal

This post actually should have been posted on Feb 11th or very soon after that, but lot of travelling and few other things kept me busy.

Generally I don't post things after such a long time after they happen I just let them pass and wait for another beautiful moment to record, but this one is really important and very close to my heart, so here it is....

This is about the day when Geet played all the roles of Mumma..

On this day when I picked  her up from the day care I was feeling slightly feverish but some essential shopping was required we had to go to shopping mall. As always she enjoyed the outing helped me pick up few things and then we sat in a coffee shop to have a pastry.

There was a very little kid there, hardly 6 months she was very enthralled to meet him and since I was not really in a mood, tried striking the conversation on her own with the kid and his elder sister.

There was another family sitting there who also tried to interact and she was initially hesitant but then went and made friends with them also. Trying to socialise just like mumma.

Keeping an eye on me and checking if I am ok. Finally after a while looking at my face she told me " तुम्हारा डोका दुःख रहा है क्या ? चलो घर जायेंगे..." 

Geet madam ready to come out of a mall on her own.....wow , was I lucky that day or she was being considerate like mumma.

This sprut for understanding didnt just end there, on coming back that slight feverishness actually turned into fever and then I saw the most beautiful side of my princess. She actually pampered me for 2 hours very very patiently.

Helped me change my clothes, gave me a head message, narrated me a story and sang me a lullaby with my head in her lap.

Most remarkable point of the evening.

I asked her what she will like to have for dineer, she said nothing. With all the options of Maggi, Rice, Roti, every answer was a no.

She just didn't let me get up from the bed.

Finally, she asked me to have medicine and sat with me till the time papa came back.

I was patiently taken care of and pampered by my princess throughout the evening.

A big kala tika! Touchwood.

Missing you Princess !

While you are enjoying your celebrity status in mudhol and having ball of a time with all cousins, grandmas, aunts and Dad, I am just thinking..

कोई मंजिल नहीं ज़चती, सफ़र अच्छा नहीं लगता

अगर घर लौट भी आऊं तो घर अच्छा नहीं लगता

करूँ अब कुछ भी मैं दुनिया को सब अच्छा ही लगता है

मुझे कुछ भी तुन्हारे बिन मगर अच्छा नहीं लगता.