Well, this is my first post here, and i am starting off with an incident that took place today morning! My sister's son, about 6 months old, staying in my place is the hero here! He's terrible when he open his mouth in a wail, and the doctor says he's colicky! But to me, well, he's just an hyperactive kid, and i find myself applauding and crying with all the new things he does (when i say crying, its not tears of joy, its out of fear, as to what his new activity is going to lead me into) He sleeps only on a hammock and refuses to sleep anywhere else! My parents and his parents find this endearing, but i think he is being pampered a lot!
Oh well, there this bond between him and his grandmother (my mother, unfortunately, for me). He is very close to her, and when its my mother who says "Rakshan, stop it, I say NO", he understands and stops, but when its me who says "NO baby", he just grins and continues his mischief! And his food pipe refuses to accept the food if its anyone other than his grandma feeding him! he gags gags n PUKE!!! there goes all the trouble i took in feeding him, and that's when i actually discovered this trick of feeding him in the shammock! He's well asleep, all i have to do is, fill the bottle with is milk, put it in his mouth and he starts sipping onto his milk happily, smiling to himself and dreaming (who knows, probably a duet with his soul mate) Well, people do say that its a very bad way of feeding him as probably it may become a bad habit in the future, but, WHO CARES, my ear drums are better off without him wailing his heart out, i'd rather take all the troubles in making him get over that habit in the future than actually let him cry, sympathising myself!!
He's got a great ear for music! Man, should i say he loves music. He listens to all sort of music, but basically the devotional melodies (got it from his father, i presume). He refuses to sleep without music, and, he has this very bad habbit of singing along with the song, he knows not the lyrics and knows not the tune, but keeps humming! Everyone thinks he's going to make a great singer or a vocalist in the near future, but well, i say, he is just mocking us with our singing.
Here is the actual incident, he was happily swinging in his shammock today and i was the was the one who was trying to make him sleep. I kept changing the songs, trying to tune onto one which would make him drift into a nice happy sleep so that he need not strain his throat (or actually our ears). But, well, none of the usual songs seemed to work out on his sleeping hormones (unfortunately for me, coz i had to keep swinging and when i stop, he opens his mouth in a loud wail, and that would in turn result in my mother raising her voice, against me. Sighhh, its a long process). But i knew him well, and there is this particular song he can never resist, and his eyelids hug each other against their will at the start of this song (to all those struggling parents - this is HARIVARASANAM song, and if it can make the lord sleep, why not rakshan, well, any kids for that matter). He was admiring his fingers with that naughty look on his face clearly stating, "am not gonna sleep, sweet aunt, do watever u want"!! At the start of the song, his finger could not hold his attention anymore, he looked up at me with that offensive look on his face, that purely called me a "TRAITOR, i dint expect this from you, thought you were my favourite aunt, i dont want to sleep now"! I replied back with a malicious look "Doesn't matter baby, u can sleep, i dont want the designation of being your favourite aunt, and change your nappy all through my life"! and that was the last conversation we had, before he drifted off!! I got the beautiful time to sit back and read the newpaper instead, admiring my job!
Friday, January 15, 2010
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