She is naughty

We have a twin mattress that my mom and dad want to get rid off. We have put that in the bedroom downstairs near the baby crib and mom uses that as her day bed. Every night before going upstairs, Reethi goes for a diaper change. Invariably every time, she wets the bed before the change and makes Santhi paati sleep on it. Paati has nothing more to say. 'Yes honey! u have made my bed a nice cooler place to sleep'. She is very naughty!!!! and she does this only when paati changes the diaper.

The Birth Story of my baby sister

Had been busy for days cos of the new arrival we have now in the family. She has made everyone's lives hectic in the family. Before telling her adventures, I have to quickly update you about her birth story.

Mom was with her full spout up and well past her due date waiting for her to come. And all of us in the family were waiting to have her be born on the days matching to their birthdays or stars as most of our birthdays and stars fell in the month of July and August. The first tension was to go past all the bad stars and that came near her due date. They were gone and all the good set of stars were going past as well. Mom and I were eagerly wating to have her to be born on Avittam or Poorattadhi, but she gave a big wedge.

Then came Roopa Athai's birthday, the 3rd of Aug when mom was in labor. But the little pumpkin made a contract with President Obama and Queen Elizabeth who have their birthdays on the 4th of August. What can I say about her? Isn't she a ruler?

A crash course on America's Geography

My grand parents are here and they got me a jig-saw puzzle on America Map for my birthday. That evening I built the puzzle with the help of Uppili thatha and mastered almost all the fifty states. When Mom builds the puzzle and asks me 'Get me Wyoming or Utah', I can grab them and place right where mommy points. The best part of it was, each state has a picture famous for it. For example, Tennesse has a Guitar - meaning Country music. Florida has space shuttle etc. And I associate each state with the picture on it and that adds my General Knowledge. In three or four sittings I mastered all of the states. Am now working on Continents of the World.

Are we Pampered or Spoiled?

Having a toddler home is way too much for parents. They exploit them right from potty seat to bedroom. Well! who exploits - the parent or the tot? Its both It was first my dad to get me the Barbie step stool, and my mom to get the Elmo Potty seat. Then I started to ask them for more. Isn't it a luxury to have a one stop shop like ToysRus with all the niceities in just one single store. My collections grew with Pony and Thomas Tooth paste, Dora underwears, Princess Umbrella, Disney Tables and Chairs, a specially designed Monkey theme bathroom. Watches, stickers, Shoes, and swim suits all were customized. Some of them were gifted by my parents and some were brought through my pesterings.

And it went to the extent of having a special Nickelodean Dora Episode with me as a costar with Dora. Yes Its Dora, Diego and Roma. Believe it or not, I acted with Dora and Diego to save the Baby jaguar who was in trouble. I am fascinated to watch the 30-minute video with Dora calling me Roma here and there. Stop by sometime to have a look at the video and my mom would tell you how we made it.