Still around...Still kicking!!

Haven't been active lately online due to number of reasons...lot of traveling over weekends means less time to be spent on my laptop, weekdays been full of cricket starting with IPL and now with T20 WC. So just for a mental reminder to myself, I am adding this scribe.

To start with a confession, I am in love with a girl called Anushka. She is cute, loves to hold on to my finger and squeeze it as tightly as possible, sleeps always with her head in my lap and yes, last but not the least, loves to giggle, laugh and give the biggest smile as soon as I start to play with her. Before any conclusions are made, just to clarify she is my 4month old (will be in 4days) Niece.

Yeah the trips are mostly because of my travel back home for her function (where she slept for the whole time) and was to mysore once she has settled comfortably with bhaiya and bhabhi now. I have never got to spend so much time with any baby. (touchwood - superstitious and hence this word will often be repeated till I speak of her). Anushka looks so much like her parents; Mani didi says a cuter version of Bro; I feel a chubbier version of bhabhi with eyes of my bro; some comment her to have half and half features from both sides (touchwood).

I know I am great with kids, they love me atleast when they want to play and get exhausted (mostly after feeds). Even though it is not always great to keep kids in lap (should let them free on bed for them to move, turn, start to crawl), Anushka knows somehow that appu chachu's lap is for sleeping. Last weekend, when I visited to mysore, in a day she fell asleep three times. Now one can be fluke, two can be coincidence but three times?! Even bhabhi/bro said to higher me full time as her caretaker. I would love to be her God-father had we followed some of the American rituals (touchwood).

Now science hasn't improve so much to understand the wavelength of an infant; hence we as family members tries to deduce what a baby says or rather put our own thoughts in their action. For no reason Anushka finds grabbing my finger or my t-shirt interesting. May be her way of showing attraction towards me. She even pooped once grabbing and exerting all her strength. Cute, may be more than that (touchwood).

Another of her stunts is of kicking of blankets. This mom says comes from my brother. He too had the same habit in his infant age. This becomes a game between her and me. I will put the sheet on her and she will put her strength to remove it. Really naughty! I can say that! (touchwood)

I always used to crib about the parental habit of first kid getting all the attention, while the second one gets only the required attention. Every move, every smile is noted down, while for the second maybe the mother takes noticed. Being myself the younger I felt, why is this so!! Being a professional myself, it was the practical scenario which explained it all. It is not just the factor of parents being experienced, also grands get 3-4 years older, husbands becomes meaner leaving most of it to wife to handle. Anushka made it clear to me; to have the first kid in the family feels so much amazing (touchwood).

Some physical and mental weaknesses restricts me to travel to mysore every weekend to be with her. But there are times when my thought process stops and I see my laptop desktop only to find her smiling and peeking under the blanket. I know there will be more in the family and they will create the same amount of warmth, noise, poop, worries, happiness. Anushka has given me a trailer of a family movie, where I saw my parents turning into grands and executing their duties/responsibilities far more than I could imagine; I have seen my as expected can't-handle-kids brother becoming a father with I-love-u-very-much-but-when-you-cry-goto-mom attitude and yes my bhabhi becoming more than bhahu of the family, but one who has given so-so-so much happiness to our small-yet-cute family.

Was supposed to write only little, but never mind!!! I have some sessions to impart knowledge tomorrow, where I expect my crowd to sleep. May be when I shall try hard not to fall asleep, they might too take inspiration.

To end with, there are lot of stuff happening @my office. Certainly the team change has created more mess (in responsibility and ownership) than I expect. Everyone says have patience and see for sometime. As it is My Team, I can't see the glass half empty. Can I? So hoping to have another of those thrilling week where I shall gain knowledge. Goodnight, be happy and prosper.