“I don’t know”

The boy has learnt to say “I don’t know”. That too with a shrug of his right shoulder. There was a book with Hindi alphabets and he has picked up “Hindi bolo”.

Phone for him is “shone”, “one more time” are some of the other words in his vocabulary now.

Yesterday, we went for wedding reception at Royal Orchid. The boy wanted to be carried. Ate portions of spring roll and paneer. He had just started eating chapatis when he saw the grandparents with the dessert. Ditched the chapatis and went straight for it.

Tantrums

The boy threw a tantrum today and did not go to school. He wanted me to carry him as soon as he got up. I attempted to get him to brush his teeth but he refused and wanted to sleep in the bouncer. And that’s it – no going to school.

Throwing up

The boy threw up in the stroller on the way back from school. It was not that bad. I was able to clean it up.

The IL’s (grandparents) are here visiting and the boy was thrilled to see them.

A way with questions

The boy has started drinking milk with a straw from a glass. Last Friday he went to school dressed as Krishna. He briefly let us photograph him with the headgear and flute before discarding them. 

On Saturday we went to our friend’s apartment. They had just moved in. Surprisingly the boy patiently played with her daughter who is one year older than him. In the evening there was a coloring competition in our apartment and the boy insisted sitting in the middle of all the children and coloring.

Ah has learnt a way to get the boy to say yes. His questions would be “You don’t want to play with my toys, yes?” Since there is the absence of “no” at the end of the question, the boy answers with “yes”!

On Sunday we walked with him to the public park. This park had larger play equipments. He was reluctant to climb the slide although he wanted to. Just as he made up his mind, one of the local boys pushed him aside and the boy gave up.

RIP Aylan Kurdi

I hope you are in a better place now.

I hope this war ends soon leaving children like you safe in the hands of their parents than in the hands of the almighty.

I was very upset seeing the images of Aylan’s lifeless body. He was just an year older than the boy. What were his thoughts? At that age he wouldn’t have understood this world and yet this world was cruel to him. And the plight of his father, unable to save both his sons and his wife.

This world is turning out to be a cruel place for such innocent people. I pray that there are no more Aylan's and I am thankful for what I have.

Sunglass and locked out

The boy found the Orao Bearoo child sunglasses that our close friends AA, had gifted him on his 1st birthday. He didn't like it when he got it but this time, he wore it. 

Today the wife got locked and I had to rush home. I had so much to do and the boy told the wife that I had a “call”. I locked myself in the room but the boy wanted to play with me. It was painful hearing the boy cry and bang the door.

Tomorrow we need to get him dressed up as Krishna for the event at school. He picked out a manja (yellow - all the colors boil down to yellow for him) colored costume with a head gear and flute.

"Car push"

Since the boy is used to pushing the pram, he has this idea in mind that "push" works - things move. Last evening at a traffic signal, while waiting for the green light, the boy started telling me "car push! car push!" to move the car forward.

He slept late, woke up late today morning, thew a tantrum and did not go to school.