Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The lil 'Big' girl

The lil one has her hands full all the time.She handles so much at home....She helps mommy clean.She's a lil cleanliness freak herself.She wears her tiny socks on her hands, to look like the gloves I wear for housework, rubs across the doors and tells me with a twinkle in her eyes,"Mummy, I'm cleaning door,what ar doin??"I melt into a lump right there.
When she spills water on the floor, she reaches for some paper and tries to spread it on the water, and says,"Mummy, water pappaindi".
The angel that she is, always cares for her friends Teddy, Doggie, Puppy and Monkey."Mummy, Doggie hungry", she says, and fetches a cup and a spoon and feeds him some cornflakes."Want more cornflakes?", she asks him and then assumes the answer to be a 'yes'and goes ahead and tries to fill his tummy.Once the food done, she gives him some water to drink and then lets him on the carpet, covers him with a blanket,says "sleep, doggies, sleep"and sings 'laaali ....laaaaliii". Didn't that invoke a 'wow'?It did....to me.... a hundred times.
While I try to get some stuff out of the cupboard, she sneaks in from behind me,grabs an onion, and if I prevent her from grabbing one, she asks me for one,"Mummy, papu want one onion", starts peeling it, and with great pride, she tells me,"Mummy, papu peeling onion......what ar doing?".
Lovely things she learns from television....Everytime she sees someone touching his/her elders' feet, she runs up to mama and dada,touches our feet and also says"namaste mummy, namaste dada".As long as she learns these good things, I'm all praise for the idiot box.But I'm aware and I better be, that it is a double edged sword.

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