The dazzling red dress,
The flawless hair,
Her skin the colour of wheat…
A Victorian beauty…..
I fell in love with her the moment I saw her the very first time…..
It was truly ‘ Love at first sight’…
She stood there with her hands extended,
Motioning me to come forward and take her in my arms…
She gives me a peck on my cheek…
Oh, I am so head over heals for her…
But alas she is my boss’s daughter
I have bunch of red roses for,
It is her birthday today…
Today, she turns ONE !!!!!!
That lill thing is a brat of the first order…
Only recently she got too carried away with the Jhonsons ear buds ad and tried clean her ear with one. A little twist here a little swipe there, one moment her baby hands were working with the bud with the elegance and panache that adults rarely display and the next moment she is totally uninterested in carrying on with the disgusting task of cleaning ones ear wax and walks around with the bud sticking out from here ear.
Then the Einstein in her wakes up…….
‘Lemme see till how far this wax thing can go ……’
And hits the end of the bud with a tight slap …
Ahhhhhh…
Uhaaaaaaaaa…uahhhhh. Uaaaaaaa
The whole world comes running…
Mother comes running
Grandmother comes running
Father comes running from his office…………
They take her to the hospital.
The doctor takes one look at her,
The bantam mount Fuji... The erupted volcano…
The decibel levels in the room reaches near ultra sonic range now…
He says ‘ She has managed to rupture her ear drum’
But quickly adds, before her mom faints
‘Its not a problem at all, she is a growing child and in this age such wounds get healed very very fast… nothing to worry…. Nothings gonna happen to her hearing…. But you got to keep her head bandaged for a week or so’
Donning a bandage that partially covered her left eye,
She looked like side cast from the set of ‘The Caribbean bandits’
... Though with an impish smile….
‘DHUHHHHH, I did it again….’
Was written all over her face…
Now that the pain was gone she was happy to have had all that attention…
She loves climbing up the 8 foot tall slide and slide down to get that ‘wind in the hair’ feel. And might be the HDFC ad influence, she wants to do it all alone “ na sar jhukaya hai kabhi, na sar jhukayenge kabhi…” TV can be a real bad influence you know.
There is one another thing that only children of this age can do,
They do the dew, wherever they want to…
You know the Jadi ke peeche stuff…
And now our lady in red, after having mastered the art of walking, wanted to go and explore the far reaches of the world… her grand mom’s house…
So one rickety step at a time she goes from one corner of the room to the other…..
The tiresome and exhausting journey from one end of her world to the other makes her want to do the dew….
She does the deed and walks right through it…
Only that this time she realizes, that liquids reduce the coefficient of friction…
A new learning, but a little too late….
Her tiny lill feet slips and there she goes
‘Heels over head…’
‘Tumbling upside down’…
Her leg hits the chair near by ..
And there she goes again
Ahhhhhh…
Uhaaaaaaaaa…uahhhhh. Uaaaaaaa
Again
The whole world comes running…
Mother comes running
Grandmother comes running
Father comes running from his office…………
Again.
They take her to the hospital.
The doctor takes one look at her,
The bantam mount Fuji... The erupted volcano…
The decibel levels in the room reaches near ultra sonic range …
He says ‘ She has managed to get herself a hair line fracture’
But again he quickly adds, before her mom faints
‘Its not problem at all…. This is called the green stick fracture… their bone are so soft and tender and grow so fast that she will be up and walking in a few days time… nothing to worry…. Only that we need to put her leg in plaster for a couple of weeks… ‘
So now the bundle of joy is also a bundle of plasters……
‘The Caribbean bandit” turns into ‘The return of the Mummy Part III’
Still she wants to go up the slide…
Still she wants to explore the far reaches of her world…
Though now she is a little more cautious while doing the dew...
