22 October 2015 - Oh Boy! You are 2!

There are some words and phrases you come across and yet to figure out its meaning and how to use them. You watch your wheels on the bus song and when the baby in it cries, mom says 'I love you' to the baby and and all the heart shaped kisses fly in the air. So your sister calls all the heart shapes 'I love you' and she even has a few 'I love you' clothes. After all these, you too know the words and don't know how to use them. Few days ago, you told me that you know to make 'I love you' water and poured some water on the floor. I wondered what made you think of that phrase, but I concluded that it would be the shape you are talking about. And the next day, you called me, "amma...... I know to make 'I love you burps'! I asked you, how to do that. You burped and told me with excitement " see! I love you is flying on the air!" Oh my! Do you really think that the mommy on your bus song burbs on her baby's face to stop crying?!!!

Sometimes it gets too frustrating for you when I don't understand what you try to say. You had been playing with play doh only to make worms with it all this while. I was tired of your game and pretending to be scared, though you were not tired of scaring me with your play doh worms. So I taught you the new game of hiding tiny toys inside the play doh and you break it up to find the 'SURPRISE' inside! You don't mind the same surprise over and over again.  Since the word 'chappaaich!' (Surprise) is new to you keep forgetting it. The next day, you asked me for 'bacchaai'. I tried, but couldn't understand what you were asking for. Gave you bus, thinking that you said 'bacch'. But you cried even loader saying, ' I don't want bacch, I want bacchaai'. I asked you if it was kashaya (you call it kachaaiya). You screamed again, 'not kachaaiya, I want bacchaai. Finally I asked if it was play doh, and you said yes. I gave it you and you remembered the right word all of sudden, smiled with tears in your eyes and told 'bacchaai' alla, chappaaich!'

You are lazy to get things you want while playing. You order me to get a plate from your cooking set. I get it for you. You ask for a cup, and I get it. You ask for a play knife and I start praising you that you are now big enough to do it yourself. I ask you to show me how to get the knife yourself. You happily say that you can do it and run near the cooking play set, pick the knife, come a few steps towards me and say - "See! This is how we bring a knife!" Then turn around and run back to the cooking set, keep it back and you come to me and ask me again, "Amma, now you go and get it for me"!

You do a lot of mischief and when someone comes to warn you, you give your new found open mouth huge smile to please them. Now noone comes to warn you. You have your own ways to please people and make them not shout at you.

You are becoming quite stubborn already and want people to follow your exact instructions and there is no question of compromise. If you want amma to carry you from bedroom to kitchen and Appa carries you till there, you come back running back to bedroom and make me come there to carry you right from there. It is quite often you want things to start from the beginning all over again if something doesn't go as you wished.

You try a lot to jump looking at your sister and cant do it right yet, but you assume you do. But while running, you just dont know how to do it. Walking race is what you call running. Your sister gets a hearty laugh to see you do that. 

I feed you and your sister from the same plate all 3 times a day. But you have your differences - she likes butter on her dosa and you like ghee. So I take a big plate to put everything. 

The fight for the same toy is becoming the common thing at home now. And someone has to be always there keeping an eye on you two to stop the fight. 

We celebrated your second birthday at home with your favorite balloons and sweets and we all had fun together being you the VIP.

Everything you do including the craziness has its cuteness. Your smiles, your mischief, your anger, your sleepy head - everything is so special, so precious and I am surely going to miss the baby Aniket as you are stepping out to the toddlerhood.