Welcome back!

Yes, my  tiny tapori is back in my life and I am soo loving it. J I am talking about my niece Yukta. Didi and Yukta had been out of town for a good three weeks and me and J* so missed her. Suddenly she seems to be grown up J she is as talkative and lively as ever! She remembers everything. Kay Cee, being interested in astronomy, shows her moon, stars, constellations and stuff like that. She remembers and repeats the same things in front of us. Ma had taught her a song. She remembers and dances on its tunes.

We had eaten some chocolates in my room a month ago when didi had left her at my place. She is back now and we were sitting in the same room, she suddenly said that “Mausi, I had eaten chocolates here yesterday na?” (All the days before today are yesterdays for her )

I was not able to recall it, so I came up with : No Yukta, you must have eaten them at Nanima’s place.

Yukta(emphatically) : No mausi I have had it here yesterday.

And then it struck me that she is talking about an incident a month ago. Its then I realized how much a teeny weeny brain can remember J

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Last night, while we were having dinner, I gave her some daal-rice and she was eating all by herself (Yes, she thinks that at 2, she is big enough to do that) and in that process was scattering it everywhere. I was staring at her and she saw that, so she innocently came up with : Mausi, ye to gir gaya. Ye to aap utha loge na? (Its scattered. You will pick it up, won’t you?)

I was like: Yes, yes. That’s what I am here for :P

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She was doing her usual masti (Read throwing things, talking nonstop, running and entertaining me fully J) when she threw a rubik cube and was looking for a reaction.

J* (pretending to be angry) : Tiger hai kya? (Are you a tiger?)(Just like that, suggesting that are you so strong?)

Yukta: Main to Yukta hu. (I am Yukta)

Oh, so logical! J

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She is very attached to didi whom she calls Ma. She wants her Ma to do everything.  She is so obsessed with her Ma that till a few months back, she used to tell the housemaid, not to sweep the house as Ma will do it. (Thankfully, she has stopped now.) You got the point?

So when J* gave her a pair of old specs, she refused and haughtily said that I have one.

To which I said : Yeah we had brought a pair of pink goggles for you right? (I had indeed went to buy the gogs)

Yukta: No, only Ma had brought it!

Me : :-/

So welcome back you tapori! With you comes back liveliness in our otherwise monotonous lives. J

PS - I am going home next month for 10 days, so hopefully I will stop cribbing that I have not been home for a year  :P