busy again

So after 3 months of slow moving, easy going routine , life is hectic once more. My son is now over a month old MashaAllah, his "Apa" loves him very and is constantly trying to pick him up. She still believes we should let her pick him up like one of her teddy bears.

Oh the 2-1/2 yr old "Apa" is becoming too naughty, i sometimes wish her parents were not soo pain in the neck when they were kids :)

dream

Heard a small whimpering cry the other night , reached over and placed my hand on my daughter, saw she was awake, told her its okay,

"bed per ana hai ? " {do you want to come on the bed ?}

small voice "haan" {yes}

me : "Ajao , Kiya howa ? " {come , what happened }

"Honey Bee a gai thi" {a Honey Bee came}

taking her in my arms : "pir ?" {then}

"keh rahi thi mera hap-pap khana hai" {said it wanted to eat my food}

laying her down so now she is lying on my chest

me : "phir kiya howa ? app ney kiya kaha?" {what happened next ? what did you tell it ? }

" main ney kaha naheen " { I said no} , "phir woh mera hap-pap kha gai" { then it ate all my food}

me : "phir kiya howa ? " {what happened next }

"uss ney kaha Thank you " {it said thank you}

End of dream , and she went back to sleep

Happy Birthday

and my daughters 2 today already :)

of Kids, Dogs and Toys

Its not easy being a father of a highly hyper energetic almost 2 year old (who reached her terrible Two's few months too early) kid. Lately she has decided to make matters more interesting by cutting down on her sleep just so that she gets up at 6am and does not sleep till 9 or 10 pm.

And when she wakes up, she sits up tilts her head and call me in a very cute soft and music-y flowing voice "baabaa". and repeats till i open my eyes to look at her tilted head, mischievous smile, twinkling eyes and the way she holds her "blanky" in between her hands with her thumb going occasionally in her mouth. Its then when she announces "babaa uth gaey hain".

No matter how much i protest and try to persuade her that she misunderstood my opening my eys and that im very much sleeping still and would not be awake for another couple of hours, she does not believe a word i say and then i am asked to pick her up , put her shoes on and take her outside " outside Jana HAI!!!". If i still refuse to be up, she would hop over her mom and come sit on my chest and start jumping.

Im sure reading the above sounds as cute and adorable as i felt when this happened for the first time , but after a few months its begining to take its toll, and now when she wakes up in the morning i pick her up and put her down the bed with a toy or a book so sometimes she does not bother us for a few more minutes.

Apart from that , she is one hell of an intellegent child , she will be 2 years old next month , she knows majority of nursery rhymes by heart from the age of 1 year 2 months, can sing all of the abc , knows counting from 1 to 10, can recite all 7 days of the week , she can tell you there are 4 seasons and their names , speaks very clearly and has been speaking full sentences since she was 1-1/2 year old, all this and a lot more.

Lately she has started making sad faces and saying " Baba ajj office na jain" , "Babaa ajj gym naheen ". Breaks one's heart !

Currently she is in love with a small 4 legged thingy which brings us to the second point of our titles. Meet "Benji" ,







this is when Benji was a 1 month old Belgium Sheppard. He is now 3 months and a whole lot bigger his "baby fat" is almost gone now an starting to look a bit scary-ish yet he still cries like a small baby when you lock him up in his cage and walk away. All the time i hear my child telling me "Babaa , baby ro raha hai". Now its only on weekends that i see him , but she goes to feed him every day without fail.

And i got myself a new toy as well, finally got around to buying a new DSLR for myself , its been 3 months since i have been a proud owner of a Nikon D7000 , yet i have been unable to actually play with it. The above 2 (plus wife ofcourse) keep me enough busy to not be able to spend time. Plan to spend some this coming weekend when my parents will be here and my kid will be busy commanding her grandparents.

first

and she broke her first plate in a resturant yesterday. Milestones come in all types

time to spin

and she is now more than 7 months old, still cant sit nor does she plans to rollover , she is content as she is when laying down facing up or facing down, not bothered to change her position unless she wants to. So let her enjoy the time as much as she wants of doing nothing , for later in life she will have lots and lots to do but for now she can just relax.

its amazing how fast all this time is going away, when i look at her pictures of each month i see the difference in her growth that otherwise i cannot see, i see the growth of hair more than anything else in those pictures if placed side by side. the most innocent expressions i have ever seen and yet in the past few months a light has been illuminated behind her eyes promising that she would be one extremly mischvious kid (as her father was, mother too but intensity level was lower by a mile).

and at times i feel the time is going too fast and i will miss her stage by being in office or working or not paying attention to her and later i will lament all i want but this time would not come back .

i think if i rotate on the ani clockwise very fast i can counter the moving of earth and slow time down, but like if i am the one spinning , how would i benefit from the slowed time ??