Did she really think....

...that she would make a sale by saying "something for your dark circles, madam?"

hmmpphh!

Train Terror

Sweet aunty who had been chatting with arjun the previous evening in the train, wakes up in the morning and this is what follows :

aunty : good morning arjun
arjun : (sullen) good morning.
aunty : did u sleep well?
arjun : no
aunty : why? what happened?
arjun : You were snoring so loudly, i couldnt sleep at all

..... at this point, i swear i disowned my son. This was actually painful even to type out.

The journey back was a little easier :

On seeing some men buy pirated cds, arjun says : "Such grown up men and they are buying tom and jerry!!!"

I am hoping this is just a stage...that arjun will revert to the sweet and kind person i always thought him to be.

Or was he always like this?

This is getting a little scary.

Wanted.

Slightly distraught mom with four year old bedridden child (fractured femur) seeks ideas to keep erstwhile overactive child occupied when all he can do now is lie on his back for the next six weeks.

Ideas already covered are : television, gaming, reading, playing the mouth organ and 'changing hairstyles game', the last of which was evolved by the patient himself. " amma u close your eyes...now look at my hair" "Now close your eyes again..." and so on and so forth.

All ideas will be rewarded with tremendous good will from mother...and also from the child when he is old enough to know what good will means.

Repercussions - They knew a sucker when they saw one!! ;)

Boy, am i going to think twice about bursting into poetry
At every little thing that i see
Look at what the flirty pigeons did to me!!
I now look forward (a little anxiously)
To the flitter flutter of little wings in my balcony!!

Its official

Jun : Amma, here...for you (he extends a bowl from his cookery set )

Me : For me? wow! thanks...what is it?

Jun : Vomit


Me : eeeyyuuccckkkkkk

Junjun laughs and laughs


....i hereby declare my son officially beyond redemption.

New Year Blues

Maddy saw me reading 'Good Housekeeping' and just couldnt take it. He took one look at our not very neat and tidy premises and promptly banned me from reading the magazine.

To add injury to insult, he insists that since he does most of the cleaning up anyway, HE will now start reading the damn thing. Apparently, he can do a much better job than me.

The scary part is that he is most probably right.

sigh...

:)

old is gold? naah....

Junjun to very un-amused ammamma and thatha :

Your hair has become older no?
:)

Growing up pangs

When he was around three years old...

Junjun, i LOVE you!!

i LOVE you amma!!


When he is almost four...

Junjun i LOVE you!!

ok!

:(

junjun

"i wonder what i did to deserve this"...

Its amazing how you go from saying this with a sense of wonder and awe... to three years later, when you are saying the very same thing while pulling your hair out.

Sheesh

Just when you think you have life all figured out...

It gives you chicken pox

About twenty years too late.

Lesson learnt.

No way!

I have found out the arjun is not just jealous or possessive.

He is INSANELY jealous and possessive.

I dont like it.

Sensibility Alert.

My learning for the day :

Little boys can actually pee into a fresh bucket-full of bathwater

Its nice to know that life has not become predictable yet.

:)

Holidays!

Holidays are a really nice time...when you are a STUDENT!!!

For a mother of a three year old, having the said three year around ALL the time needs a bit of getting used to!

Arjun, dont watch so much tv! Why dont you play some music instead?

I see him heading towards the music system and go into the kitchen

When i come back, both the TV AND the Music system are on.

"one for amma and one for arjun" he says happily.

I am fighting a losing battle.

Sigh...

There are some times when it is difficult to digest that i had anything to do with bringing up junjun. Like when i caught him drawing on the mirror with his saliva.

yyyyyyuckkkkk.

Truth

School Fees : A tool used to contol a nation's population.

Change

It is mind boggling how a seemingly angelic child can change a previously composed and balanced woman into a screaming banshee who can sometimes double up as a raving lunatic.

Not again.

The whine, the sneeze

the cough, the wheeze

nebulization, frustration



and the million medicines.



where is arjun?

He is under the chair

He is speaking in falsetto,

saying 'arjun NOT there'



Say a prayer folks

To save you from more corny rhyme

My li'l one needs to be up and about

Preferably in NO time.

Apt

I am totally wonderstruck that the term 'nonstop nonsense' came into existence before arjun did.
Its scary to think there are more like him out there
:)

Grrrr

All the love went flying out of the window.

15 minutes to get him into the car. Another 15 to cajole/coax/threaten him into putting the seatbelt on. I am late all the time, everywhere. Yesterday, he went around acting cute when i wanted him to drink up his syrup and i totally lost it.

I really dont get how people survive having more than one child!