Scene : Lift lobby of a shopping mall. About 10 people waiting for lift including Aryan and family. A dad is holding an infant in his lap and is cuddling with the baby. Suddenly we all hear Aryan shout :
"Mumma , mujhe bhi mera baby chahiye , jaldi nikalo"
Post that shout : Mumma is looking around to see how many eyes are on them. Aryan is trying to squeeze mumma's tummy to get the baby out. Papa is trying to divert Aryan
:-P
"Abhi theek nahi hai :D :D"
Yeah thats the answer you will get when you ask him this question. Don't miss the grins at the end.
He has fever since the day school started and so he is not going to school. The fever is high when its there but the gap between the fever is about 10 hours or so. So in these 10 hours the kid is happy and active except when you offer him food. Or when you ask him , "aapki tabiyat kaise hai"
Since no fever means the end of extended vacation with no school and no daycare :)
These kids are too smart for parents :P
is what he is upto these days. He talks a LOT !! And he broadcasts everything. And he mimicks all of us. And he tells everyone that he has become naughty :P
And he makes me feel like ..ummm ..what do I do with this guy ..grrrrr !! But he is a cutie ..grrrr !!! :-)
Some snippets :
We made a birthday card Aryan's dadi's birthday to surprise her when she comes and the guy calls dadi to tell .."Dadi maine aapke liye card banaya"
Fine ..one surprise gone ..the next day we order a cake and before we can get out of the shop , he calls her again to give the update :P
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One of the days , my stomach is upset and I puked early in the morning. I am happy that the in-laws have gone for their morning walk and I won't be questioned about ***early morning puking***.
As soon as they are back , "Dadi jab mumma ne vomit kiya tha na….."
Dadi : "Kab ?"
Aryan : "Abhi jab aap walk karne gaye the"
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He does something to irritate me and then before I can say something , he comes up with my reaction.
"Aryan , Mumma ko pareshaan mat karo"
And then he says :"main mumma ki nakal kar raha hoon"
and then again thinks of my reaction and says that
"aryan aap bahut maughty ho gaye ho"
"aryan mumma ki nakal nahi karte"
and then he giggles :P
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He does something naughty in the morning and then giggles and tells me : " Mumma main subah bhi naughty ho gaya hoon" "Main sare time naughty ho gaya"
Then in the evening again he does something funny and says "Mumma main shaam ko bhi naughty ho gaya " "Main 10 times naughty ho gaya hoon"
Role play is a favourite game at this age. Till now it was only limited to humans.
Like Aryan playing papa and Mumma playing mumma and Aryan's car playing papa's car and we go and buy veggies from uncle (invisible) who sits on ironing table selling vegetables.
Or like Mumma playing A and Aryan playing B kids of the day care.
But these days its different.
It goes like this :
"Mumma , I cockroach , You lizard"
I wonder whats next !!
These days Aryan can be a brat. Can do anything he wants. But I cannot be angry. Forget angry , I cannot even show my displeasure in casual way too. Because the moment I say , "Aryan why did you do so ?" or "Aryan see what you have done ?" or "Aryan you should not be doing this " or "Aryan say sorry" or I just keep quiet or I don't smile at him , there is a big hungama. He cries and makes whole lot of fuss saying "Mumma gussa ho gayi" and that goes on and on till I give up and pamper him and show him in all possible ways that "Mumma gussa nahi hai" GRRR....
On a seperate note : The role play went fine I guess. All I got to know was :
"Aryan horse bana tha" , "Mummy wala mask" , "maza aaya", "X duck bana tha" , "Maam camera photo"
and the mask was missing from the bag though tail came back intact in bag.
In Aryan's daycare there is a little girl A. She lives in our apartment only. I always knew that they are friends but now , I am not sure if its just plane friendship ;-)
They both start jumping looking at each other. In the morning and also in the evening at the park. A usually goes to the park every day since her father works from home and is able to pick her in day light. We try to take Aryan to park whenever we can. So whenever we come early , we just dump bags and run for park.
Earlier I used to change Aryan's dress / sandals to shoes but now he does not have patience for that too. If I ask him to change he would tell me , "dress gili hai" meaning all the dresses are wet and so nothing to change :-P
There are days when we run to reach the park only to find that A is not there. On those days I try to encourage him to play with other kids But witness his reactions on few of such days.
Day 1 : After 5-10 minutes of waiting and loitering around , he stands tall on the top of the slide to see as far as possible and says with a sad face "A nahi aayi"
Day 2: Very excited to play with A , disappointed to not to find her , cries and comes back home.
Day 3 : A is not in play area, "Mumma no jhula, Gumma, lets go" , meaning lets walk around to see if A is playing somewhere else in the campus.
Day 4 : " After 15 minutes of waiting , "Papa lets go Ghar, mosquitoes"
And some incidents as told by day care teacher.
Incident 1 : Aryan and V (a boy) fought and so the teacher made them sit far for few minutes. A comes hold one hand of both of them and all the three start dancing.
Incident 2 : Aryan told A that V has hit him. A goes and hits V left and right. Comes back and Aryan and A play happily together.
And you know exchanging hearts is so old fashioned , these days its different.
Yesterday night in bed , Aryan holds his feet in hands and says "A ka hai" (this is A's feet), so I asked , ok where is yours and he says "A paas" (Thats with A).
He also insisted to call A to sleep with all of us yesterday but understood when I told him that A likes to sleep with her mom just like you do.
Now after reading all this , what do you say ?
Yesterday evening Aryan suddenly wanted to have "chOklete". So since he had little sore throat I gave him cough drops. Thinking that its some new "chOklete" , aryan grabbed it. After sucking it for 2 minutes , he took it out and pushed it in his papa's mouth. Poor papa could not do much, while Aryan by that time demanded to have gems (sugar coated small choclate balls). So mumma gave him one while papa had the cough drops. But soon the gems was over and Aryan grabbed papa's mouth to get the candy back. Needless to say that candy was already over by that time. So Aryan started crying badly.
Now how was papa supposed to know that the candy was given only on loan and papa was supposed to suck it but not finish it :-P
What would you do when a friend (Husband's college friend) visits you after 3 years to stay over for a night. And when he gets to meet your 2.5 years old first time. And when your son behaves the way he does.
Okay I see a curious question mark on your face :-)
Aryan gave a warm welcome to his Chachu (husband's close friend). Showed him each and every toy , so much so that the guy would have almost felt tortured. Then opened the only unopened carton after the shifting which has got some useless miscellenous stuff. And grabbed a book on Pregnancy Q & A and gifted the same to Chachu :-P
Thats not all !
After Chachu finished tea and got up , he gave a big smile and said "Chachu Bye!!". Now remember I told you that he came for night stay :-P
But even thats not all !
So Chachu tells Aryan that he is here to stay but Aryan did not give in and said "Chachu Bye!!" soon after dinner. This time Chachu says bye to test his reaction and got ready to go for a walk with Anupam. So Aryan goes to the lift to say bye to them , shows him the lift and says "Idhar, Bahar" (From here , Out). This time chachu finally comments "Mujhe bhej ke hi manega" (He will relax only after sending me) :-P
But even thats not all !
So after they came back from walk they told Aryan and Mumma to sleep. You know private talks between friends ..yeah about old girl friends ;-) ..hehheh. So anyways mumma tried hard to take Aryan away from chachu , but he did not give in. So Chachu pretended that even he is going to sleep.
Now the ultimate one !
Aryan tells chachu , "Chachu susu jao"
On a seperate note though , Aryan really enjoyed his time with Chachu and it was the first time he became so friendly with someone so soon. And that too when Chachu was not behaving like a kid and playing with him. He wanted to spend time chatting with us while Aryan wanted all his attention. And I should have clicked some pics :-(
He asks me to cover my self with the blanket as soon as we are in bed. When I do so , he asks me to keep my hands under the blanket and carefully tucks the blanket on sides.(I never did the same for him , atleast in his memory and I do not know from where he learnt this.)Then he lovingly keeps his hand on my cheek , the way I used to do some days back, till my hands were not buried under the blanket.
He asks me to go for bath , soon after he finishes his.
He doesnot allow me to walk bare foot for a second and runs to get my slippers each time he sees me barefoot.
He demands his Papa to remove shoes after office and wear slippers and also to change to nightwear.
The other day , I could not change to night wear due to some guest at home and decided to change after putting Aryan to sleep , but he did not allow me to lie down before I changed.
Now , I have a doubt , who is the Mom here?
Editted to Add :Yesterday it was one step further. He moved his little fingers from my forehead through my hair. (It was heavenly !) and then he patted my head and goes like "Aaaa Ummmm Aaaa , Mumma mumma soja". Funny but so cute , isn't it ?
His papa is his role model in everything. Whatever papa does is the best. Whatever papa use is the best. And he takes good care of papa's belongings as well.
He runs to get his papa's shoes every day. And he understands and get another pair when papa says , "Nahi Beta , not this , other one." He stands at the door with a towel for the papa. He runs to get papa's specs as soon as papa comes out of bathroom.
Day before yesterday, we went out a nearby restaurant for evening snacks. It was one of those self service kinds. So while his papa went to fetch the food , I saw that Aryan is looking at someone. I tried to call him , but he gave no response.He was standing close to another table and staring 2 people , who were having coffee. On giving a closer look , I saw that a pair of glasses were kept on the table. I got worried of him going and picking it. Thats when he turned to me , pointing at the glasses and said , "Papa" in a very helpless tone. I explained that papa has his glasses and thats Uncles.
He immitates Anupam in his habits as well. He makes noise like his papa , while brushing. He roam around in balcony with mobile phone on his years and talk in gibberish with someone. This includes , "Hello" ,"hahahaah" and "Bye" as well.
He likes using papa's pillow and he slowly slip from his pillow to his papa's until papa decide to swap the pillows and give him what he wants.
Whatever papa does is right and so when papa covers himself with a quilt he demands mumma to do so as well. But here he refuses to immitate papa himself.
So I am seeing a papa's boy in making :-)
1. He cannot see Mummy or papa barefoot. He runs to get slippers for us. One day, he woke up at midnight due to cough. So while he was awake, he started crying because I was standing barefoot :-P.
2. He feels that the cook needs all the vessels in the house for cooking and keep giving him one after the other.
3. He thinks that only Nanu(My father) calls me on my phone , so if its my phone , he needs to talk to Nanu.
4. He loves his shoes and so if you wish to remove his pants , do it without removing the shoes.
5. If Mumma opens the window in the car , papa should follow and vice versa. And why can the AC be not on , with glasses down.
6. He calls me papa at times.
7. Whenever he sees a Auto Ricshaw on the road, he says "auto" and continue repeating till I say "Yes Auto". Now considering the amount of autos on Bangalore roads , you can imagine the situation.
8. When in bedroom, he hears every auto going on the road , he shouts "AUTO".
9. When Anupam goes to bath, he stands at the door , with his own towel and knocks and says "TOWEL"
10. When he brushes, he imitates the sounds Anupam makes while cleaning his tongue.
These days , if you will see a guy with a beach hat and a dholak in our house. That is none other than the head of the family , my husband and Aryan's father. The guy has to do all that just to bring a smile on his son's face. The ritual is , as soon as father enters the bedroom , the toddler will come running with the hat and dholak. The father will wear the hat and 'drum' the dholak. This happens as many times a day as possible.
So all of you who ask what did I do over a holiday / saturday /sunday and I reply with "we were at home" , this is what we do :-)
- Aryan gets up late by 9.00 - 10.00 (anti-jinx) , (and this is a recent development , he used to get up at 7.00 am) and so mumma gets to sleep till around 8.00. After which mumma , makes tea and do the tiny-winy tasks till the time Aryan gets up.
- Mumma and Aryan snuggle and cuddle either in bed or in Mumma's lap and loads of kisses and hugs get showered from both ends.
- Aryan demands to switch on his favourite DVD, which he does not watch , just listens as he has his milk and then plays with Mumma Papa.
- Since he gets up so late , he breakfast is usually short , like just a fruit or few bites from mumma's plate.
- Then Aryan demands to bath and he baths and baths till he is forced out of the bathroom , which is complimented by a big tantarum.
- By the time tantarum is over, Aryan is all dressed up and we play again.
- Meanwhile Mumma struggles to make the lunch which would also serve as a brunch for Aryan. This sometimes triggers some tantarums as Aryan demands to be carried by Mumma (and Mumma ONLY) so that he can observe and learn all the cooking ..ALL THE COOKING. So in the process Mumma gets bitten several times when she fails to carry him.
- Aryan is served with his brunch on his high chair. But just after few bites , Aryan wants to jump off and roam around. After much of trying he convinces mumma to set him free. So he roams around the house and comes running to take a bite when Mumma prods (anti-jinx again..).
- Then we play again. The playing includes all or some of,
Cooking , with both pressure cooker , some potatos , some tomatoes and gas lighter , all in the room . Mumma papa get to taste the yummy food cooked by Aryan.
Playing with his Fisher Price shape sorter blocks , where Mumma Papa are supposed to clap and say 'very good', each time Aryan sorts the shapes correctly.
Playing with his favourite mug , where Aryan immitates the aunty (maid) who comes in the morning and cleans the mug.
Cuddling,Tickling by both Mumma and Papa.
Playing Throw-Catch when all the three players sit on different seats and play with the blue ball.
Watching Aryan's snaps on computer.
Kissing and hugging the soft toys and fighting with papa over his sofa.
Hide and seek between the rooms and balcony with Mumma where Aryan finds the hiding Mumma.
- Meanwhile Aryan hears the washing machine's beep of completion and comes running with a tub and forces Papa or Mumma to take the clothes out. The clothes are then carried to balcony by Aryan and Mumma/Papa , where each person holds the tub from one side.
- After much of playing , when its around 2.00 -2.30 , Aryan gets tired for an afternoon nap and dozes off in Mumma's / Papa's lap , while mumma papa finish their bath, food, sleep etc.
- Aryan gets up after a long nap , demands to switch on his DVD again and all the playing is repeated in random order.Meanwhile Mumma again tries to cook evening snacks and dinner while Aryan wants to stay in her lap for all the cooking.
- After dinner , Aryan takes both Mumma and Papa to bedroom and then we all study Animals. We also study body parts sometimes , using the Pooh book. We don't like to study vegetables though.
- Then Aryan do all the cleaning of the side rack near our bed. All the things are placed on bed one by one ane when the rack is empty , Aryan says "Kham" , short form of "Khatam" , meaning "Finish". This process is repeated N number of times.
- Meanwhile Mumma Papa start feeling sleepy while Aryan is still active and is jumping on bed. Finally Mumma -Papa switch off the light. This again invites lot of crying for the "Aaight" , meaning "Light". Then he tries to impress papa mumma by telling something about cows,papa,auto ,bau bau,eyes etc etc (all the living non living things he knows about) and mumma keeps telling that all of them have slept already. Finally he gives in and dozes off.
- After an hour, you will see a Mumma sleeping in parallel to the wall, a papa almost falling off the bed and a baby making a bridge between them, sleeping happily with his head next to papa and feet next to Mumma :-)
P.S. : All the house chores done by Aryan are his own intiatives. Mumma Papa don't force him. So please don't sue us for child labour.
How does he know that today is a Saturday and Mumma wants to sleep till 8.00 am , but I will miss 1 hour of play if I do not get up at 7.00.
How does he know that today is Monday Morning and Mumma is already running late and I should sleep till 8.00 am or more.
How does he know that today Mumma is too tired and I should play till 12.00 at night.
How does he know that today Mumma has a meeting and she wishes to reach office sharp at 9.00 and I should demand to sit for potty when they are about to lock the door.
Aryan Tagged me for my crazy 8's ..its ok , let me confess :
8 Things I am passionate about:
1. Cooking , I will be a chef some day. I love to be in the kitchen and see Mumma cooking. I love to play with utensils , especially pressure cooker. And with vegetables too.
2. Washing machine , If I will not be a cook , then I will be a washer man :-P Don't laugh ..ok ?
3. My engine and my rocker and my Blue Ball
4. Water and Bath
5. My Dadi , I love her like anything. She was with me for one year. Now she lives somewhere else but I love her and miss her.
6. My Nanu and his phone call. Nanu does lot of masti. He chats with me in baby language and pampers me like anything.
7. Lift in our apartment. I wonder how it works ..Nope I will not be a Lift man.
8. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST , MY SHOES AND SOCKS ..Mumma plans to do a complete post on that ...sooner or later. I am crazy about shoes and socks , especially striped socks and my blue canvas shoes.
8 Things I do that drives My Mom crazy:
1. Asking to go out of the house , in the common area of apartment and hang around there for hours , even if Mumma is dead tired. Even if its 11.30 in the night. I don't want to miss any opportunity to go out.
2. When I cry over wearing a wet or very dirty socks for thats my favourite one.
3. When I hit , bite or scratch mumma , if she is not responding to my needs IMMEDIATELY.
4. When I want Mumma , its only Mumma and she cannot even go to loo then.
5. When I demand milk/fruits and have only one sip/bite.
6. During our outings ,when I refuse to go to Papa even if mumma is too tired to carry me for longer.
7. When I want mumma to carry me while cooking.
8. When I do not want to sleep till late in night when Mumma is too sleepy to play.
8 Things that I say often:
1. Papa : My favourite word ..so what if I call Mumma also as papa ...most of the times.You know its easy to say that.
2. Aaaaa
3. Mumm / Mumma
4. Aaaja
5. Appae
6. Aiyan : Mumma says , "Sabse Pyara Baby Kaun ??" And I say ,"Aiyan Aiyan"
7. Uuh
8. Bau bau
8 Books that I have read:
1. Animal ABC
2. Know Your Fruits
3. Number book
4. Know your Vegetables
5. Cartoon Animal Book
6. Pooh Moods book
7 My First Flip book -ABC
8. Times of India (thats not a book though)
8 songs that I listen to over and over:
1. Twinkle Twinke Little star (English rhyme)
2. Lakdi ki kathi (Masoom)
3. Haathi raja kahan chale( Hindi rhyme)
4. Johnny Johnny.. (English rhyme)
5. Two Little Hands (English rhyme)
6. Instrumental from my Piano
7. Bum Bum Bole (Taare Zameen Par)
8. Yeh Ishq hai (Jab we meet)
8 Things that makes me the person I am:
1. My Passion for cooking and my love for my socks.
2. My love for bathing /water .
3. My love for my parents. I suddenly go an kiss them for no reasons. I cry if Mumma is in pain or is crying. I get concerned when Papa is not well.
4. Anger , Mumma calls me Angry young man.
5. My smile and laugh , My mom says that its her life line.
6. Being adament about being with Mumma and doing everything with her and only her. If I am on swing , she has to sit next to me , if I am having milk , she has to be there , if I am playing with engine , she has to be there and so on...
7. The way I like to attract strangers to talk to me and the way I shy away when they do.
8. The way I like to trouble Mumma and Papa , if they are trying to apply cream or put diaper
And I tag ..
Kuttan
Brat
Aadya
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Nantu
It was somewhere in the first week of November 2007.Little Aryan was very happy today. He was on vacation with Mom-Dad to Dadi's place. More fun was that, his cousin brothers , Uncles and Aunts all were there. So they were all enjoying time. That day he had even his great grand parents visiting him. Everyone was busy chatting with them in the living room. Kids were having a great time in Dadi's bedroom , with TV and their toys. Little Aryan was crawling in and out of the bedroom to the living room.He was energetic and happy.
Suddenly he coughed and pink coloured watery saliva came out of his mouth.Everyone got alert and worried. What has happened to him ? Mumma poked her finger into his mouth forcefully.Aryan did not like it and started crying. See what comes out. A BIG PINK CANDY :-O Everyone was looking at each other. Some worried and some astonished. Some of them was laughing. Mumma and Taiji asked all the kids , as to how did Aryan got the Candy. The youngest of them replied ,"Maine Diya , woh maang raha tha."Little Aryan did not understand what has happened. He was so much enjoying the CANDY given to him by his cousin.Mumma threw the Candy away :( and told Bhaiya to not to give him anymore :(
Till today he wonders ,"WHY? Mumma could have asked Bhaiya to giver her one. Instead she threw away mine. Mumma is such a meanie, cheater,J."
To run away , does not matter crawling or walking , when mumma has already removed the wet nappy and wants to put a fresh one.
To lie down on my tummy , when Mumma is trying to apply cream on my cheeks and then laugh.
To demand for wearing shoes 24/7, even in bed.
To find my old , worn out black and white (zebra kinds) socks from dirty clothes , washed and wet clothes or from any other possible place in the house and demand to wear them.
To insist to walk on road , busy running road.
To demand for playing with ball, when Mumma is eating.
To demand for a bath at the site of running water.
To try to reach the kitchen plateform and catch hold of whatever , knife ,food, even gas knob.
To cling to Mumma's legs as soon as she gets into kitchen.
To hold Mumma's finger and take her for a walk , when she is super busy with something else.
One day I ordered some tomatoes from neighborhood shop and as the guy delivered , I emptied the bag of tomatoes in a kadai for time being , before putting them to fridge. And it was whole lot of fun for Aryan. We soon had tomatoes all over the drawing room and he dragged the kadai in entire house.
Have you heard of this new game.If not , come and see in our house.You will see a mumma running behind a toddler.A toddler , who has not yet learnt to walk , but can run(*swim) on his tummy. And he gets super-duper excited and giggles, when he sees mumma following him (especially with the dinner plate to serve him).
