Stories keep overlapping if I keep your two separate diaries. So since both of you have crossed 2 years and since all your baby milestones are crossed, and because you are always partners in your mischief now, there is no point in writing the stories twice! So here after the diary will have both your stories together. Once you grow up and read this, please don't count the number of sentences I have written about each one and fight, "amma, you have written more about him / her and you love him / her more!" No, I equally hate you both!!! Errr, equally love you both!!
Difference between my thoughts and my 3 year old Aadya darling's thoughts. When I see a bed, I think that it is for sleeping and she thinks it is for jumping. When I see a window, I think it is for light and air to come in. She thinks it is a ladder to reach the roof. For me a chair is to sit, for her it is a prop for gymnastics. When we go for walks, I say "Yuck! There is cow dung, watch out!" She says, "Wow! See cow dung! It's beautiful green and so soft!" When we get ready to visit doctor because her brother is sick, I grab some clothes in a hurry to change and tell her to pick a pair for herself. She comes out holding her brand new frilled party frock! 5 Minutes before sleep I try to shut my mind for the day and stop talking. And Aadya's mind says - Oh! Only 5 minutes left, let me talk as much as possible now from dogs tail to dosa breakfast and from lollipop to twinkling stars to wheels of the car and Masha's fountain juttu! And sing as many songs as possible before falling assleep. I relax my body on the bed. And Aadya keeps her hands, legs, tummy or buttocks as high in te air as possible. After 5 minutes I am still trying to sleep, but my thoughts are not willing to stop. And Aadya is trying her best to stay awake, but sleep is not willing to stay away. Her little hands, legs and bum all fall on the bed and her mouth is still open as if to complete her sentence!
On a random day,
Aadya - Will you become ajji when you grow old?
Me - Yes.
Aadya - Which ajji will you be?
Me - Umajji.
Aadya (with a sad face) - enage matthe amma illeya? Kaane aavuttalda? (Won't I have a mother then? Will she go missing?) Then she hugs me, cuddles and kisses.
Ani sang - daddy finger daddy finger, where are you??? Mommy finger mommy finger, where are you???? and then he paused. Aadya was watching him sing and immediately looked at me and said - "Ani's song is loading...!"
When we were travelling to Mangalore, I pointed at kids favourite digger on the road and told "See! There is a JCB". My 3 year old Aadya told me, " No amma, it is a Hitachi, watch carefully. JCB has wheels and Hitachi's always have chain. So this is not JCB".
These days I have no sense of dates or weeks or months anymore. If someone invites us for a function with the date, I start from looking at my phone for today's date. All I know now is my kids' ages in days and weeks and months!
Aadya for the very first time stayed away from me on 28th December. Ani missed Akka a lot that week. She went to Jogibettu with ajja-ajji after the thithi at our home on monday. We went to Jogibettu on the week end. She had been crying every time we come back home from Jogibettu that she wants to stay back with ajja-ajji there. But we had not left her alone there. And this time after thithi, when they climbed the car to go home, she sat in the car and refused to get down. Finally I had to pack her bag and put in the car. Ani too cried his lungs out that even he wanted to go, and slowly fell asleep for his afternoon's nap. He kept asking for her, while playing, he would keep things for her and call aloud for Akka. When taking his blue pencil, automatically he kept pink for Akka and called her. Left space in his cycle seat for Akka. Then I had to play as Akka and run behind Aadya's rabbit as he ran behind his turtle. First day, after she left to Jogibettu, I had to go with him by lift to the kitchen to see 'hulivesha', and the second day dad went to see it. For the first time, dad got to know that in your 'hulivesha pretend game' there is an actual 'huli' picture involved in it.
On 25th december, Aniket fell while running with a tumbler and hurt his nose, quite deep. Looks like it is going to be a scar forever.
Aniket plays funny pretend games these days. He stood holding two hands together and said amma is carrying Ani. I was far and said, I am not carrying you, I am here. He said right hand is amma, left is Ani. So amma is carrying Ani!
Aadya loves to give tongue twisters to Aniket, though she herself cannot pronounce 30% of the words correctly. She always makes him say 'Blabli' and he always says 'bal bil', makes him say 'durga' and he says 'duruga', and they both laugh together.
Ani to Vijayajji - I can't pronounce kitna.
Vijayajji - You just said kitna.
Ani - Not that, I can't say kkkittttnaa.
Vijayajji - Kkkittttnaa!?
Ani - No.. Kkkkiish...tnaaa.
Vijayajji - Oh! Krishna??
Ani - Yes!!! That is the one, I can't say that kkkittttnaa.
Ani has a special word order to ask questions. We usually ask, "Mudde helidre yavudu? Puttur helidre elli? Straight helidre hengippadu?" And, Ani asks "Aavudu helire mudde? Elli helire Puttur? Hengippadu helire straight?"
Aadya loves to hear stories and wants us to make stories of the incidents for jer to understand. She wants bed time stories, she wants childhood stories of jerself, she wants stories for everything that happened. Ajji told her the story of lord Ganesha and how he was made to stand near the bathroom to stop people from coming in, while Goddess Parvathi took bath. After the story, the next day Aadya insisted that she comes with me to the bathroom to stop if people try to come in. Finally I had to let her stand near the bathroom door till I came out.
Aadya was playing with the heavy lid of a cooker and Vijayajji kept telling her to keep it down as it might fall on her toes and get hurt. As usual she didn't bother what ajji was saying and happily carried it around. After a few minutes, we saw her very quoetly sitting in a corner of a bench. We asked her what happened and she showed the tiny drop of blood oozing out from her last toe. Usually, she would scream aloud even for a mosquito bite and let the world know of her pain. So we found something fishy and asked her if she dropped the lid on her toes. She insisted that a fish bit her toes. However we tried to ask her if it was the lid, her only answer was fish bite. So my little girl knows to lie to protect herself!
Ani makes songs for everything, even his random sentences or answers to our questions comes out as a song if he is in a jovial mood.
Aniket is very particular about being dry. Sometimes he cries that his toes shouldn't get wet while bathing him. The minute his hands are washed, he wants to immediately see a towel to wipe right in front of him. I keep his face as the last thing to wash while giving him a bath, because immediately after washing his face, I need to wipe it dry.
It is very easy to make Ani say sorry. He does it without any hesitation, he easily agrees with all the conditions to get chocolates, because he never means sorry nor keeps up the promise. Agrees that it is the last zuuuuy with Appa, but immediately after the zuuuy, asks for another. But Aadya doesn't easily say sorry, because when she says it, she means it and hurts her ego.
When I say shlokas, if kids talk to me, either I only nod my head or say the shloka louder. So kids know it when I say shlokas and they don't like it when I don't reply to their questions. Yesterday it happened again and Aadya had no patience to wait. She wanted me to speak to her and said, "enough of your shlokas amma, God is happy already!"
