Fascination for shoes
Till about a month back, bachu had a fascination for shoes,
sandals and chappals(slippers) irrespective of ki woh kiske hain. Especially
chappals joh kahin pe bhi dikh jaaye to bachu simply used to pick them up and
take them to the right owner. I don’t know how but bachu manages to recognize
everyone’s footwear. Like other stuff, you cannot take footwear of another
person from bachu . Bachu is also able
to differentiate between a chappal, sandal and shoes. In fact if one is going
out and tells bachu bahar jaana hai apne shoes leke aao. Bachu not only promptly
picks up a pair of her shoes and bring to you but also sits patiently on your
lap or the bed so that you can make her wear them.
Bachu also likes to step into papa and dada’s shoes and maa’s
sandals and tries to roam around the house wearing the same!!
There is a pair of slip on Barbie shoes that bachu’s jas
mausi brought for her. So much is the fascination for that pair that every time
bachu spots it, she immediately brings it over and wants to wear the same.
However the thing
that touched me the most was that bachu knows the right place for everyone’s
shoes. Other day she picked up dadaji’s shoes and brought them out to the
drawing room. When I asked her to and keep the shoes back in dadaji’s room she
went and kept the shoes precisely at the place where dada keeps them every
day!!!
Mataji ki soti
Leave aside her pranks and you’ll find a very caring bacha
underneath all the sharaarats. Bachu knows that mataji (badi daadi) needs her
soti (walking stick) to move around. Till the time mataji is sitting at a
place, bachu moves around holding the soti in her hands all the while trying to
imitate mataji’s walking style. Moment she realizes that mataji is about to get
up or someone at hoem tells her ‘Devaangi mataji ko soti de do”, bachu promptly
gets the soti(if it is not with her at that point of time) and hands it over to
mataji.
The best is that moment she spots the soti she points out to
it and says mataji ki soti!!!!. The only catch is that mataji gets worried that
her guriya will take the soti and keep it somewhere out of reach and then
mataji will be left highy and dry without her soti!!!
Eating habits
Devaangi has really improved drastically in her eating
habits. Earlier the bachu used to survive mostly on milk but now finally after
about 7-8 months of persuasion she has finally started enjoying her f0od
(though she’s still looks underweight!!!) Bachu now is able to identify
different types of food and is also gradually building a liking and disliking
for different food types.
She still doesn’t like to eat sweets. Papa nahi kahan se
pata chal jaata hai that the food that we going to feed her is meetha . bus
bachu simply shuts her mouth and refuses
to open it!!! It was a task to make her taste papa’s birthday cake!! The only exception are chaina murgi (though
not that much ) and khajoor. Bachu simply loves khajoor. Evey evening when we
come back home, bacu and dada have a khajoor eating session. Even if dada has
forgotten all about it, bachu will promptly walk to the drawer where khajoor is
kept, take out khajoor and tell dada ‘khajul’ (that’s the way bachu spells it)
khana hai!!!!
Bachu now willingly eats, roti, parantha(her fav being aaloo
parantha), dal, bread, custard, doodh sooji, grapes, kela, apple and a few of
the vegetables. The best part is that she now tells you on her own that she
wants to eat and mostly if she’s able to see the stuff that she wants to eat say kela, she’ll say “aapko kela khaana hai?’ which
means that she wants to eat kela!!
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