Ira is
growing up real fast. And with her the pile of stories is mounting too – the
silly kinds, the funny ones, the touchy ones, the high energy ones, the
milestones, the anecdotes that I would like to look back fondly upon. Therefore
I have decided to document these little incidents as and when they happen, for
posterity lest my memory fails me.
Date:
November 14, 2013 – Thursday, Pune
Our Ira
believes in a clear desk policy. We arrived at this judgment after consistently
noticing her pull down things from the table onto the floor and being extremely
happy about it. Also, the fact that she invariably gets drawn to any object
that is placed on the table within fraction of seconds of it being placed and
then actively endeavors to dump the object ‘not-so-neatly’ onto the floor – only corroborated
our theory.
Therefore,
we avoid keeping anything that is fragile on the table. This is the unsaid rule
between Vikram and me in the house. Now being humans, we do tend to forget
these rules every now and then especially after a hard day’s work at office,
sometimes even a harder after work hours at home amusing Ira - only to see her
giggle and smile and forget our tiredness and worries.
Anyway, in
one such occurrence of tiredness and forgetfulness – Vikram had laid out his
mobile phone on the center table which was well within the little devil’s
reach. And before Vikram or I could blink she was right there grabbing the mobile,
while I stood squinting expecting to hear a loud thud on the ground any second
with the battery and back cover disintegrating and no surprises there , she did
just the expected - picked up the phone in all her excitement flinging it
around once and then twice AND there it was next to her ear as though she is
answering a call and looking at Vikram expectantly to say something, say ‘hello’
perhaps…!
Vikram and
I stood there speechless, at 9 months how did she know that it was a talking
device meant to be placed next to the ear to listen in. I guess, this was a milestone – for Vikram
and for me!
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