All in a day!

This morning we made breakfast together.. me and chinipie.. She was waiting for me to play with her and I had lots of work around the house.. I was trying to think hard what could be done before her patience ran out. So, i just asked her if she would like to help me making something special for papa (he was working from home) and her baby sister. She grew excited and immediately, got her foot-stool so that she cud help her momma out in the kitchen. We decided to make egg-rolls and she did her part of pouring the egg batter and pressing the roti's on the omellete with the spatula.. When two of them were ready to be served, she got some ketchup from the refrigerator and poured it on the plate trying to make a smiley face on it (just like mommy does for her) and handed it over to her dad in his home-office. Came back and, together,we continued making some more for herself, her baby sister and her mom. Poor thing didn't budge from her spot thoughthe heat from the girdle and the stove was getting too much for her to bear..


When we were done, I cut the rolls in half and wrapped them in li'l napkins n foil sheets so that the kids could easily hold 'n eat them, explaining to her what they were for. Then, I gave her the plate and we decided to have our breakfast in the balcony.. that's where me and the girls pretend to have our picnic when the weather is good. Meanwhile, I gathered the other stuff like juice, water, napkins, etc. I had expected her to have settled on the little picnic bench, waiting for me. But to my surprise, she was nowhere in sight, neither was the plate full of egg rolls. Instead, sugarbun was hiding her face in the lounge chair wailing her lungs out.. apparently terrified by a bumble bee(actually a wasp!) with her clothes wet from top to bottom. Poor thing was still in a state of shock to answer how she got wet! Assuming, that the chair must have been wet from last night's rain.. I took her inside, calmed her down and changed her. We(sugar and I) came back out in the balcony, with me promising her again and again that I will shoo the bee away next time it comes near her... and chini was still nowhere in sight.  I gave juice to sugar, still trying to think hard where her elder sis cud have possible vanished, when she came back chirping happily with the plate still in her hand. She sat down and served one of the rolls to sugar and started eating her own. With every bite, she would say, "They are good, momma!". That's when I realized that one of the rolls were missing from the plate. And being a mom, my heart lit up with a hope that she might have already devoured one of those.. and i asked her with a glee.. "honey, where is one of the rolls?" Prompt came the reply, "Actually, I gave it to papa and even, told him to take that wrapper off.. he is not supposed to eat it!" I just went speechless.. I have no words for what I felt then, and what I am feeling now.. We were, after all, making the breakfast for pa and sis, right? She made sure she served them, before she sat down to eat herself!!


Sugar added,"Thankyou didi, for making breakfast for me! It's yummy"


What a bliss to have daughters!!


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Lemme talk about some very pinkalicious stuff my sugar does!


Sugar is a big jumperoo.. she just loves to jump all day - on the floor, on the stairs, on the couch, on the bed, in her crib. With every jump, she adds, "Mamma, I am a big Jumper!" and wouldn't stop saying it until I say, "Yes! you are!". Then she goes, " I aaarrrr.. I aaammm!" 


She just loves being tickled. She would come and lie down and just say, "Tickawwoo me!" and even before my fingers actually touch her, she starts giggling. And then, it would be her turn and with her tiny little fingers, she wud just touch me and say , "Tickawoo, tickawoo. I am a tickawoo bug!" The cuteness in itself  makes me giggle...


Couple of months ago, we had a family portrait session. Apart from the fact, that the pictures had come out well, it was fun.. all of us had enjoyed it a lot and the gals, in particular, were pretty excited throughout. For one of the pose, they were asked to put both their hands on their hips and stand. Sugar liked it so much, that many a times you can catch her standing or walking in that pose!


Sugar is one little royalty who just loves to wear dresses - morning, noon and night. She then holds it in a ballerina style and says, " Look mumma, I am a pretty pwreencess!"


And indeed she is Momma's little pwrincess!

Chinipie's growing years - a snapshot

Let me try to justify my blog by trying to capture as much as I can from my girls' growing years. By and by, as i remember, I will keep adding more. Here, I will like to call on all my friends and family who used to get regular updates from me.. either in person or on the phone or live action, do remind me about the episodes/incidents you recollect. Let's travel back to the memory lanes together..

Since chinipie was the reason to start the blog, lemme start with her and will do the next post on my sugarbun.

My absolutely delightful, lovable and charming Chinipie has grown to be a very sensitive, intelligent and too-mature-to-be a 4-yr old! As I said earlier, she loves everything pink, takes a delight in all that a little girl should and is very proud to be a four year old! She is an amazing elder sister, a very lovely daughter and a great friend to all those who are around her. 

Let's go back to from where I left.... my Chinipie had turned 1 in April'08. For records, she had taken her first independent step (i.e. w/o support) on April 17th .. time- around 5 p.m.. distance covered- from the center table to the couch.. number of steps- 2 to the arms of - waiting Momma; who of course made such a hulla-baloo about it. But then she never attempted it again until there was the an entire audience to cheer her up in the lobby of the apartment building we used to live in. This was about 7-10 days after her first birthday. By the end of May, she was such a cutesy toddler! Together, me and her, used to explore the nature.. jump into the water puddles, look at the crawling earthworms, the busy ants, the spinning spiders, the humming bees, the pretty flowers complete with the chirping birds! She used to love to look at the cars, air-planes, bikes! I remember, how she used to love to climb up and down on the steps outside of  our apartment lobby. I used to take a thrill in the silhouette of a mom walking with a happy, chirpy toddler holding her finger(this feeling is still alive though with my sugarbun)..

And yes, books used to be her all time favourite.. the first time she scribbled something, she was just 11 months old (I guess I must have saved this one.. will have to dig it out!). She wasn't speaking much then, but could explain everything to me - with her actions and a few words that she could.  The sequence of her initial word power was something like this.. 

ka - for car and for what

key - for key, of course

cow - for the animal cow, of course!

tie - for the dad's tie

then she had moved on to 

Baaaney.. for barney, her then fav

Paaani.. for water

Naaani.. for granma

Gaaani... for granny.. there was this 74-yr ol' lady on our floor, who my chinipie used to adore a lot and spent lots of time with.. 

And then, she had picked on frm there.. The first multi-syllable work she had spoken was 

naap -kin for napkin.... for a long time she used to pronounce a as 'aa' like an apple was always an 'aappu' for she couldn't say the 'l' and the 'u' sound if it came at the end... diaper was a 'daapu' coz again she couldn't do the 'r' and the 'u' sound...

Now that we are on to her Language building skills, there a few episodes that I remember..

At around 15 months of age, I used to ask her what does papa wear to office and she used to point to her neck and say 'tie'!

At around 18 months... during the apple picking season, she had amazed all her co-riders (dad's frens) in the car by saying 'tee' pointing to a tree!

At around 22 months, she explained to the librarian that her dad is at work.. 'Papa aapis. cum baak ening'!

In the same library event, I had made a teeny-tiny black and white soccer ball out of play-dough and she had sent the entire room to an uproarious laughter by showing to each and everybody that she had a 'soccu baoo' and then trying to kick it, in the event smashing it with her feet!

At around the same time, she had amazed my friends, by telling them that the flying object in the sky is not an air-plane but a glider!!

And before we knew, she had begun to speak short sentences a few days before she turned two!

... more to be continued.. lemme just bask in these memories.. can't tell you how I am feeling at the moment... as if the entire events are unrolling live in front of my eyes.... and my eyes - they added their own dewiness to these fond images...

An apology and the feeling of being a dinosaur

This apology goes out to all my readers viz. my blog friends, my family, and all my friends who I know were following my blog-posts and had loved to read them in my pre-blog-sabbatical era. I had stopped abruptly! Many a times, I promised to come back but I didn't. and still you all kept waiting.. directly/indirectly telling me that you always used to look forward to my new posts and some of you also told me that you were inspired by them (am deeply honored!). I am truly truly sorry for not writing all along.. someday, may be i will tell why.. but for now, let's just say that I got busy with the growing up of chinipie, nurturing sugarbun in my belly, watching them grow, indulging myself in being a house-mom (probably more than reqd.), managing a huge house, moving, etc. etc. etc.


That being said, I tried, many-a-times to come back to the blogging world. But, every time i did, I felt like there was so much going on already with this virtual world.. down to the fact that the whole perspective/way/technicalities of blogging had changed each time I tried coming back. I really felt/feel like the DINOSAUR of the blogging world!! And me being a techie person (or so I think), I always felt lemme relearn all this before I start blogging.. and that's where I went wrong I guess. Having learnt my lesson, this time I decided to let the things flow with my blog and to let them come along as my blog grows again..


Having said that, do bear with the haphazard view of my blog and lots of other non-technicalities till I fix them.. or better teach me how to.....

PINKALICIOUS!!

For those who are wondering what my title means.. and those who have half guessed correctly but still have a few doubts.. am a proud mommy of two very lovely, yummy, entirely delectable, who love everything about dresses, accessories, make-ups, shoes, jewelry; in short very PINKALICOUS girls! And most definitely, they are crazy about pink!!! In addition to it, they recently became proud owner of this very lovely book called 'Pinkalicous' and no doubts, this is their current favourite!


It so happened, we have moved to this new city, where we don't know a single soul and are trying to keep ourselves busy with whatsoever poor momma can think of, instead of just sitting at home and letting them eat my brains out! Thankfully, we moved in peak of summers, when there were lots of activities going on in the local libraries. Once there was BINGO for all ages at our library, which, by chance we won not only once but twice(it's so hard to believe still as my lucky stars elude my when it comes to such games.. guess my girls' stars were acting high that day!). It being an library event, the prize was obviously a book for each win and you get to choose the book. And when we went to make a pick.. no guesses on what my chinipie chose!?! Momma wasn't very sure if it would be a good book and asked her if she would want to take a second look and with a firm voice she said 'NO'!! And, in front of an entire audience momma, but of course, relented (with the comment from the librarian,"she definitely knows what she wants!!"). After that, she had no interest in the game or in winning at all. All she wanted was to look at the book and couldn't wait to be back home to be read to!!


Later that night, when all three of us (Chinipie, Sugarbun and momma) kept falling in love with that book with each turn of the page!! It's such a lovely read with an equally lovely message.. So, my dear friends.. that's my life for you from now onwards.. a very PINKTASTIC life with a PINKERALLA and a PINKERBELL to make it PINKERRIFIC with each passing day!


and you were wondering why I changed my blog to all pink, huh?!?

So that I don't let these wonderful memories die...

Am trying to get back to my blogging self.. Lots has happened these past 2 years! For one Chinipie is an elder sis to Sugarbun.. her baby sister!!
Can't promise to post each and every memory but will try to do justice to them.. For now I hope I keep my promise!!

Amen!!