Son is all about pretend play now… He uses real time vessels to make dosas in his imagination (actually he does all the steps involved in making dosa perfectly). He then serves it in a plate and tells us to taste it. And then he fills up a bowl with sambhar from another big vessel [...]
Son, One of my favorite words in the dictionary and in life is change. Looking at you, I recognize that you are the word itself. Change. I’m amazed at how much a person of your size can learn everyday. Come on, how much memory is there in your little brain? And how much processing it [...]
If there’s one thing that helps in our toddler household, it’s singing. There’s singing everywhere, everyday, for everything. When I was pregnant, I started listening to lullabies, to get into the baby mood. Soon, I started singing them and I truly believed that my unborn baby was listening. When the baby was born, singing became [...]
Son: Appa? (Translation: When will papa come?) Me: 5 minutes. You sit and wait. Son: Time? Me: (Surprised) Time? It’s 9.15 now. Son: Fifty? (Pauses to Think) Sixty. Forty. Amma, shop! (excited) Me: Shop? What about the shop? Son: Fifty. Dol. Me: You mean dollars? Son: Yes. Fifty. Dol. Shop. Me: (Thinking) Now I know you are [...]
Dear self, Yesterday I understood how it feels to be a badly behaved mother. Yeah, it was absolutely and truly myself when I was forcefully carrying a wailing and crying 2 year old as I was walking inside the food court and I had a gait that would suggest “I don’t care how much you [...]
Here comes a post that was due 2 months back… Dear baby, Our past 2 months have been totally busy. The first month was all about shopping and packing for our India trip and the second was spent in India. I’m surprised what a difference one month can make in a person’s life. The first [...]
I updated my list of surprises. I hadn’t updated for a long time, but when I did now, I felt that I am not able to connect with the list much anymore. Reason? Change. The list was started over an year ago and both me and my son have gone through a whole lot of [...]
Introducing King Kong Charming. Just in case you had any doubts about him being the king.
Gentleman with collared shirt and tie…. …eating dip-sticks. Hmm, Yummy!
City Boys. City boys under construction. City boys under construction with a bull dozer. City boys under construction with a bulldozer and hugging Bob, the builder. City boys under construction with a bull dozer, hugging Bob, the builder and pushing a kitty cat away!!! THE END ****
