Mini's Scripts

Little Sia is afraid of every bug around. We lovingly called her 'button' because she was as cute as a baby could ever be. She is afraid of spiders the most, and any other bugs like mosquitoes or houseflies who are also 'spiders' to her. They are sometimes lovingly called as flying spiders (read mosquitoes) and buzzing spiders (read bees), yucky spiders (read slugs and earthworms) and spiders (the genuine kind). She once found a slug during her walk in the neighbourhood and called it a "naked snail"! She quipped, "Its coat is missing Mum! It will catch a cold!" Who could talk to her and make sense of the invertebrates! It's not going to be me! Sia also has a lot of words up her sleeve. And because we also speak Hindi at home, she ends up speaking Hinglish sometimes, "My vest is ulta-pulta (My vest is inside out!)", she says. Some noteworthy words are: Thunderstoms = Understoms Best Friend = Yest Faynd (as in Hair)  Brother = Brather (as...

My write up for Valentine's Day circa 2016, that was featured on my lovely friends very interesting blog . …I told him, “ I love you “. He was too busy checking out the new wheels and didn’t answer. I was dumbfounded! I waited for a few more seconds and then I said with little more emphasis on those three simple yet most important words, “I LOVE YOU”. He gave me one long look, which went right into my soul. I noticed him taking in my chunky nerdy glasses, dishevelled hair and a tired looking face. But he finally lisped the sweetest words, “I ove you”. I couldn’t be more happier hearing these words. My little boy has turned two this week. He can’t yet pronounce words with letter ‘L’ in them and tends to say lollipop as ‘wayapop’ and love as ‘ove’. The only L-word he has mastered is ‘Let's go’, perfect to remind us that it’s time to go out for a walk. He likes spinning things, pretty much every thing that he lays his eyes upon and is always on the move. He can be especi...