Boxer Babies

Dear Roxie's pups,

Welcome to the world!! Its quite a cool place...once you know your food and shelter are assured! You couldnt have been born to a more dog crazy family. Let me tell you something about your human parents. They are not all there:) But that hasnt stopped them from actually taking better care of you guys than i took of my very human son! Seven of you are no joke, you know.

Am so proud of your mom, roxie too ... pl treat her with a lot of respect as i suspect she is the most well travelled dog in your part of the world...her human parents never thought twice of driving all over the country with her. And her manners...i can go on and on but the bottom line is that although your mom and jun are more or less the same age, my son sure can pick up a thing or two on being well mannered from her!!!

Junjun by the way thinks roxie spat you out one by one. I hope its okay that i said that was exactly what happened.

Initially i was a little jealous that her gestation period was SO much shorter than mine; but when she landed up with seven of you as compared to my one, i was kinda glad to be human ;)

Once you are about one and a half months old, you will be ready to go to your new homes where each of you will be the darling of your families so you sure have something to look forward to!

I am also hoping that you bring in lots of moolah for my poor sister and brother in law who have spent a small fortune on you guys. Considering that you all come with your own certificates and all that jazz, i suspect that shouldnt be a problem :)You never know, someone reading this right now, might suddenly realize that their life is so incomplete without a darling little boxer in the family and will come forward to take one of you. Your stingy human mom ofcourse, wont even give me a commission but well...if your new owners are nice people, i guess thats all that counts!

So be good and enjoy bangalore, its almost as nice as hyderabad :p and dont be too cute or your human folks will find it very difficult to part from you guys and then we just cannot visit them if they have seven pups in the house!! So vamoose!!!!

With all my love,
Your very human, allergic-to-animals aunt.

The new man in our lives

Conversation while traveling from known point A to known point B

Maddy : Now both of you will have to promise not to talk

Us : Hunh?

Maddy : Bowing in front of his phone : Tell me Master, show me the way...!

( I swear I could hear ancient Kung Fu Masters squeal and curl their toes in agony)

The Man : Take a right after three hundred metres

Maddy : Arch, how far is three hundred metres?

Arch : How should I know?

Arjun : I think its very far away

Maddy : *Dirty Glare at arjun*

The Man : Now, take the left

Maddy : Ah! HE knows !!! grins

Jun and Me : *Dirty Glare*

The Man : After 750 metres, take a left

Maddy : Hunh?

Me : Loud wicked chuckle

Jun Jun : He is saying all wrong no acha ?

Maddy : cough cough

The Man : NOW take a left

Maddy coughs some more and I giggle

Arjun : I think he likes lefts no acha?

The Man : Go straight for 900 metres and then take the second left

Me : Loud cackles

Maddy : Arch, when you first came here, did you know everything about this city?

No, right? Give him a break!!

Me : Louder cackles

Arjun : He will also learn slowly I think no acha?

Maddy : coughs…definitely arjun

The man : After 600 metres, take a left

Arjun : Acha!

Maddy : Don’t worry, I am not listening to him so we will not fall off the flyover!!!!!!! .

Me : Maddy, the most sensible thing you have done in your life is using this thing on a road well traveled!.

Maddy : I must not have set it right. It cant be wrong

Me : “Gosh, If you thought that way with me, we would NEVER fight!!

Maddy : glare

Arjun : I think he is tired he is not talking anymore

Maddy : That’s because I switched him off.

Arjun : Why????? I like him!!! He tells all funny wrong ways!!

And so it became two vs one for The Man

We didnt see Mr GPS Man in action for some time after that. But I was quite sure maddy was two timing the two of us.

My hunch seemed bang on when the other day, Maddy said, “ If you promise you wont laugh, I want to do something”. We promised. And repented.. as The Man took us on another wild goose chase.

Some time after that, arjun and I settled down to watch a movie called “The Golden Compass”

Arjun : What is a compass, amma?

Me : Its like a GPS arjun……………
….and I clapped my hand to my mouth…but I was too late.

Maddy’s voice rang out : What was that ? What was that? What was that?
(yup, three times!)

Arjun : She said it was like a GPS

Maddy : I knew it !! You like him too dont you arch?

Big groans all around….

Maddy : so where shall we go today?

Arrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhh…..

Some Junspeak

Watching Kareena Kapoor yell like a fisherwoman at shahid kapoor in jab we met.
" she is talking just like you talk to acha, no amma?"

While playing football
" no no amma, you should not hit a goal, i should only be the winner, THAT is the game"

Happiness is...

Catching an episode of 'Friends' that you have actually never seen before!

Buying a beeeeg tub of your favourite ice cream and then getting another equally beeeeg tub free with it!

Waking up late and having mom in law give you a cup of amazing coffee in the next two seconds (how lucky am i!!)

Waiting for Maddy to come back from his tour

Being able to Finally carry and hug junjun and crush him and squeeze him up till he literally cries out in pain. Bye bye hip spica!!

sigh :)

Another one bites the dust!

I just read that Archie is going to get married....and to Veronica!!!!

Poor poor poor Betty.

Like most girls, I could relate more Betty than to Veronica.


BUT

I am thrilled for Archie. Really.

He was clearly more besotted with Veronica then he ever could be with anybody else. He is marrying the woman of his dreams AND his fantasies...a good thing for anybody!!!

BUT

Betty ?

Betty will most probably hurt for a while, then will be too sensible to spend her life doing that so she would pick up, move on and would, in all probability, do better than an Archie.

Because, lets face it - as lovable as he is, at the end of the day, Archie is and always will be, a bit of a wus..

Give me single minded Jughead ANY day!! ;)


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Glad i didnt give up midway!!

Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin - WOW!!

The genesis

I am back to using diapers and wipes for arjun and it got me thinking that a big part of the jun story was actually missing since i started this blog only after his non stop big mouth started functioning. So for the record, here it is - The genesis.

We had decided to open it together. So we did.
Then we read and re-read and then read it aloud to each other just in case one of us was hallucinating.

“What the hell did that mean?” We thought

"Mildly Positive"

We had paid good money for a report that told us that I might be having a baby? I am having a little bit of a baby? My neighbor is having a baby? We just didnt get it.

The gynecologist did her own test the next day and said “You young lady, are very definitely going to have a baby. Congratulations!! "

Oh? I thought.

“Thank you” I smiled at the doc.

Walked out in a daze.

There was another living creature inside me?

The only visual I could get was that part in the movie called aliens where you can see the alien move inside the lady’s stomach. I quickly tried to think of more pleasant things as I saw maddy waiting to hear what the result was.

“We are going to have a baby” I said.

Oh? He said.

We both smiled uncertainly at each other, now having one thing undeniably in common.

We were BOTH shit scared.