Big boy

Dear Mowgli,
Today you cross another milestone. You are going to kerala all alone and will be with your grandparents for a month. This is the first time that we both will be staying away from each other. From the time you were born till yesterday we have been together. I’m sure you’ll enjoy the trip. You will meet a lot of people who love you a lot- your uncles and aunts and grand parents and great grand parents. You will not hear any NOs and DON’T DOs. It will be your rules that everybody will play to. You sure gonna have fun. Huge gardens to play about, a pond full of fish and frogs for you to fill up with stones, flowers to pick, cocoa to play with and balls of every size and fancy!
As I write this, your dada has just bid goodbye to you. You are right now in the train with your papa and uma. Its been two days since I left. Your dada tells me that you ask for me sometimes and sometimes you can be seen sitting silently with tears filling your eyes. There is no crying, no tantrums. Maybe those would have been better than these silent tears. Are you thinking that I’ve left you? Do you understand that I’ll be back soon? I’m also missing you a lot. In fact missing you so much that I’ve started having rosy memories of that DISASTROUS Canada trip. J
On a better note, you have been talking A LOT! You repeat everything that we say. And its so funny and so cute. You call me mama, amma,ammi and at times you call me by my name! dada is dada , and at times dada is also called by name. You know the names of most of our friends now and have coined nicknames for them which I really hope will last J coz they are so funny!
You have started playing with all your toys now. The lion that you were scared of, you now sit on it and treat it as a horse. The train that you would not sit on, you spend most of your waking times on it. Ramming it into cocoa, reversing it over my feet, racing it from the drawing room to the kitchen and at times upturning it and closely examining the wheels! You have learnt to open the fridge now and it’s the most irritating thing that you could have ever learnt. You take out stuff from the fridge, put in things or just leave the door open and stand there enjoying the coolness. This happens about 100 times a day! I am frantically searching for the keys, but till then you enjoy! Books are still a favourite. You like them so much that we are scared to show you a book after 8 pm. I had read about how parents should read to their children before bedtime. Well, we did start it, but you refused to let us close the book. Your dada had to sneak and turn the lights off and we pretended that it was a power cut. We have learnt better now. There will be no more bedtime stories for you, at least from a book. The ones which mama tells you with lots of animals and animal voices and no clear storyline, those will definitely continue. Food is as usual a strict NOOOOOOOOOOOO. You continue to survive on milk. Your dada has thought of this game where he pretends that you are a tiger and try to feed you stuff and you in turn bite his fingers since you are the tiger! A lot of mashed fingers later, half a chappathi goes into your mouth. Nobody is complaining. It could have been worse! We are yet to figure out the source of your energy. You still are hovering between the underweight and the ‘just- above-underweight’ graph. I have given your grandparents strict targets to bring you back all fattened up. They did look a wee bit worried at that goal.
You are growing up to be a regular Casanova. Its embarrassing to take you out, coz your corner the girls and hug and kiss them and don’t let them go. Its not just the girls, you hug all the kids that you see.
All in all, you are huge fun! Except when you get hyperactive and do not go to sleep since you will miss out on all earth shattering events that will happen in those 4-5 hours that you doze off. So it’s a cycle. Sleepy baby- refuses to drink milk as its a probable sedative- gets crankier by the minute- struggles to open eyes wide and continues to play- sleepier- crankier- this goes on and on and then suddenly we distract you with something and you just fall off to sleep!
I’m missing you a lot here. You have fun!
Lotsa luv,
Mama