Quoting Story books
Yesterday for the first time Arunav was telling us the storybook line by line....
Everynight Arunav wants to read only 2 books (1) Cinderella and (2) Snow White. He is fascinated by those two. Yesterday when Shyam was reading Snow White to him he was quoting the lines before Shyam could read them out.... it was good fun to listen to him do that. He is 2 yr 5 months now and thanks to Snow White he is speaking words like "she cackled" !
Life is beautiful
Arunav talked with Papa over phone and then told me," I want to talk to mummum on the phone." I replied," Arunav, mummum is sitting right in front of you - you talk to phone with people far away whom you cannot see." Arunav promptly closed his eyes and said," I cannot see mummum."
Life's owes are worth because of these moments.
One of those spellbound moments
There are times when what your child says leaves you literally spellbound for a while - this was one of them.
Arunav loves to read 2 books most at bedtime: Cinderella and SnowWhite. I was reading Snow White to him today and at the end there is a line "Prince fell in love with Snow White...." Arunav suddenly sat up and said "But the Prince loves Cinderella!" Only when he repeated his statement looking at my puzzled face did I realize I heard him right.
Too soft - too hard and Goldilocks
I am 35 weeks pregnant now and try not to sit on soft sofas and chairs to prevent backaches. Arunav loves our soft sofa which is big and bouncy for him. Arunav is also reading lot of books and one of his favourites is "Goldilocks".
Yesterday he said," Mummum will play with Arunav in that sofa(pointing to the soft one)." I said, "Arunav, that sofa is too soft for mummum why dont we sit in this(I pointed to a firmer sofa) one and play?" He looked at me, thought for a while and said, "That sofa is too hard for Arunav!"
Goldilocks in immediate application.
Baabul
"Mere bete ka maut ka apman mat ki jiye...(Dont insult the death of my son)" (when Om Puri says the cause of Abhi's death is Amitabh's bringing his widowed daughter-in-law to Abhi's wedding)
This is the best dialogue and delivered so beautifully! I love the concept of the movie - I just hope it has impact on the age old dogmas that are still plaguing so many parts of India where widows are considered a stigma...no, not only that "where widows are not considered at all" - yes who thinks of them?
And above all I admire Amitabh for doing these movies with such strong messages....if anyone, he can make an impact.
Clash of egos
I always thought it is very difficult to have ego clash with a 2 year old - he is such a small little thing, how can one possibly have ego clash with him. But believe me I was wrong and you definitely can. A 2 year old has such a fierce concept of independence! It can happen over mealtime, playtime, studytime, art time - oh just about any time. Today it was about mealtime (a big majority of mine are over meals). I want him to eat breakfast before going out for play since his last bit of solid food was at 7.30pm the previous evening and it was 8.30am this morning - one would think I am justified in thinking so (pls say yes).
But no - my toddler wants to play first and while playing he will eat (a habit I am trying to discourage). After some ego struggle - I had to give up. I find it amazing that I almost never manage to win unless I happen to camouflage the struggle with "Let's read about Pooh and how he eats breakfast before we start playing - what do you think Arunav?". He gives his decision "Yes/No" and then we can proceed.....ahh, will I ever be able to say a simple "No" the way he does and get my way? Given current trends the answer seems to be 'never'.
