Some tit bits from bachu’s converions

Bachu: mummy nani house jaana hai

Me: nani hourse  kyon jaana hai?

Bachu: nani house sai baba mandir jaana hai (whenever bachu is at nani house, nani takes her to sai baba mandir)

 

Bachu: puchu ne bangle pehna hai

Me: acha puchu ne bangle pehna hai

Bachu: haan !! dadi ne puchu ko bangle pehnaya

Dadaji: nahi switch ko touch nahi karna hai. Mana kiya hai na (when bachu is trying to switch on an electric point)

Bachu: smiles and says: to band kar doon (she she’ll promptly switch off the elctric point that she had switeched on)

Pranaam dadaji

Bachu has learnt to be so diplomat since the beginning that we at times wonder from where has she picked it up (none in our family are diplomatic). Bachu knows how to move from calling dada to dadaji to daadu depending on dadaji’s mood. Though she uses the same rules with others as well but the person to whom bachu maska’s the most is dadaji. If dadaji doesn’t let her have her way even after the transition form dada to dadu the  the ultimate maska is to bend down and touch dadaji’s feet and hug him or do sakshaat pranaam. Phir to there is no way that dadaji will say no to bachu for any thing.

brush my teeth

Oh I'm brushing my teeth on top,

it's so much fun I hate to stop,

but while I'm brushing my teeth

and having so much fun,

I never let the water run.

No I never let the water run.

Devaangi loves to brush her teeth. About 2 months back we brought the first set of tooth brush and tooth paste for Devaangi. We wanted to get Devaangi into a habit of brushing her teeth. After initial reluctance that lasted a few days to a few weeks, bachu has been so much taken up by the whole brushing ritual and in addition to her 4 tooth brushes, Devaangi can also be found picking up and using daadi’s 2 brushes as well as mom’s brush. Phir kya hai every morning maa and dadi have to hunt for their respective  toothbrush!!!

The teeth brushing activity starts when bachu wakes up in the morning and then continues throughout the day. The first brushing session of the day starts with tooth paste on the brush which bachu swallows without any delay or lingering. The brushing sessions of the rest of the day happen with plain brush in bachu’s mouth and saliva dripping out!!!!

Ab to bachu’s standard line on entering the bathroom is bash chahiye (I want the brush)

I love biting

Bachu has been biting a lot now a days… The most common victim is daadi followed by the maid and then me. All you have to do is either annoy bachu or don’t pay attention to her. Bachu simply will come and bite you. She gets some sort of thrill by biting and you must see the joy on her face when bachu bites some one!!! Looks like she is teething at present!!!

Lakdri ki kaathi

Devaangi is growing listening of english rhymes- the common ones that we were taught as a kid. These include baba black sheep, jhony jhony yes papa, row row row your boat, wee wiley winkey, jingle bells and so on… of all these one particular rhyme becomes favorite of bachu at a given point of time and then for days together till the time this fascination lasts bachu not only keeps humming the rhymn herself but also asks others to sing out that rhyme to her.

I remember when the fascination for jingle bells was on; bachu used to consider mom and dad as request station and would turn from one to another asking us to sing jingle bells to her. Then came a time for Guruji’s mantra jap followed by om jai jagdish hare… aajkal she is oscillating between nani teri morni ko mor le gaye and lakri ki kaathi (this one is her all time fav)

The best are the prompts or the clues that bachu gives us in between for reciting the rhymes. For example she’ll say “mummy ghoda pahucha chauk mein”. This means that start from this stanza and sing the rest of the song to her!!!

So far we have tried to ensure that bachu doesn’t watch too much TV. We however introduced her to watching nursery rhymes on computer. So much is bachu’s fascination for watching lakdri ki kaathi’s video in particular is that day in and day out she can watch lakdri ki kaathi’s video. Not only this, she also knows it very well whom to approach for putting on this video. For example she goes only to me and her dadaji for putting on lakdri ki kaathi (she knows no one else will put on the video for her J ). You must hear her say “dadaji lakdri ki kaathi laga do please”. She says it so innocently and pleadingly ki bus poocho mat and won’t let go for dadaji’s legs till the time he doesn’t agree to put on bachu’s fav video ;-)