Rolled over! Rolled over!!!

In a fitting tribute to her brother, Bambi rolled over completely today ! And once she got the knack of it, there was no stopping her. Cocoa was the one most amused at this. The strange being that till now was lying flat now was slowly inching to her territory.

We are going to Kerala tomorrow for two weeks. Two long weeks of food and monsoons and surviving a 10hr car journey with two kids and a dog! Both the kids are down with fever and cold, thereby ensuring that I'll be subjected to advice and criticism from the moment we step out of the car. Am praying that both of them recover at least by the time we reach the Kerala border.

This is Bambi's first trip to kerala and most probably Mowgli will be sidelined with all the attention that she is going to get. Tantrums for sure by Mowgli boy. Pretty adventurous and hectic trip ahead. So Goodbye :-)

Its one of those days!

Those days when i lose my cool at

• Mowgli ruminating with one piece of chapathi in his mouth for one hour. Safely tucked in between his cheek, he gives me a blank look when I get mad at him


• Yet another untouched lunchbox. Excuses are plenty. He had potato chips ( God alone knows from where!), there was no time for lunch, it was too much food in the box ( how can two chapathis be too much food for a energetic boy who had his breakfast at 8.30?) I wonder what the teachers and ayahs are doing. He has been going to daycare for almost two years and I've never had a complaint about him not eating.


• Bambi crying for apparently no reason. She doesnot want to feed, she does not want to sleep, she does not want to lie down and play. She just wants to cry cry and cry!


• At a tummy that still looks 5 months pregnant. I had slogged and slogged to lose all the kilos that I had piled on after Mowgli and now back to square one. It just hurts like hell and now with two kids, I know i will not be able to devote so much time to working out.


• At parents for reasons silly and real.


• Mowgli wetting his bed every night. He had got over it and was sleeping through the night. Now he is again back to wetting it twice or thrice at night


• At cracked heels and corns and calluses. At my laziness to do something about them.


• At all the aches real and imagined


• And at me for sometimes being my mother and sometimes being my father and sometimes being just me!!!