Babies!!!!!!

It is official!!! Children are sent to us for the sole purpose of aging us. There is no other reason – The moment we are in the immediate vicinity of children..we begin to age at the speed of light. Who said children were innocent, angelic...dont be carried away by their cute little drooling faces....behind that sweet little smile hides a devil :evil:: that is plotting on ways to give you 50 wrinkles and 500 grey hairs in 20 seconds by getting into some mischief or the other. :bowdown

Just this morning, my neighbour dropped in with her toddler for a chat. Now, having an active 5 year old myself, one would assume that my house would be childproof and even i thought it was, but one should never underestimate a child’s intention to test it. I gave the toddler few toys to play with while me and his mom chatted over a cup of coffee... suddenly this little one decided that it would be fun to yank the curtain. His mother “chintu, don’t do it beta....come here” . Me thinking : “ CHINTU Stop pulling it right now. “ but instead gave an inane smile at his mom. This child was DETERMINED....YANK YANK YANK....a final forceful tug and down came the curtain AND THE ROD barely missing the child and the TV. The child clapped proudly. Believe me, all this happened in few seconds...when a child is determined, it gets superhuman strength..putting superman, batman, chitti, Ra-one and every other super hero to shame... The mom offered an apologetic smile and carried her son ...and ME ? I couldn’t do anything but still keeping the stupid smile intact said “Thank God he is not hurt...kids will be kids” :spin


There was this other time, a 6 month old baby...a friends daughter, crawled under the bed and refused to come out. She had discovered the laptop charger “brick” which i had deliberately kept it hidden under the cot so that my own daughter wouldn’t fiddle with it. One would think going under the low lying cot to reach for the “brick” would deter anyone... NO ..not this one.. shakeheadshakehead How a chubby little baby managed to find the brick and crawl underneath i still haven’t figured it out...This 6 month old thought that the “brick” was more tasty than the cookies i had given her and was drooling all over it. There was so much of tearful drama before we could get her out from under the bed and the brick off her drooling mouth.

My own children are far from angels. My daughter when she was 1 year old yanked the TV cable and toppled the TV...and it broke to smithereens. I nearly died while she looked at me proudly standing in the middle of glass pieces. Thank God she was unhurt, but i swear i aged twice as much in those few minutes. Again, once while i was doing fabric painting, thinking she was asleep, i went to the kitchen for few minutes and what do i see when i come back....my little one covered in red. I thought it was blood and started screaming then i realised she was holding the bottle of red paint in her hand... it was written in bold “CHILDPROOF CAP”... but obviously children cannot read.... it took me days to scrub the red acrylic paint off her...:spin

Every day, babies all over the world wake up with the sole intention of performing some death defying / dangerous acts, designed to give the adults around them heart attacks. They have an inbuilt radar and make a beeline for things that are dangerous. They are programmed in such a way that if they find any liquid ..water, oil, ink, juice...– they should spill it...(preferably over imp. Documents) If there is an open electric socket, must put a finger in...if they find a small tiny bead or any other thing...they must put it in their nostrils or their mouth....if the window is open, find a way to climb and look out of the window... if there is something crawling, pick it...if something is hot... touch it, if something is sharp ..poke with it ..if something is expensive...break it.... they go through the trash cans with as much interest as an Egyptian archaeologist would rummage through the ruins of the pyramids and display their smelly discoveries with as much excitement and enthusiasm. :shock:WitsendWitsend

However all said and done, a million grey strands and wrinkles is worth it for the nice feeling we get when they hold your hand, the way they touch our face with their tiny little and icky sticky fingers, the trust with which they look into your eyes, the way they giggle and make us giggle with them, for the way they feel like a piece of heaven. Ofcourse they are angels with wings that decrease as their legs increase...oh well...that is another story about teenagers.

 

Thank you so much kamalji...that was so cute abt your daughter My daughter too has the habit of staring at other ppl eating icecreams...it is really so embarassing )

So true...children can be endearing as well as exasperating... and let me not get started on parents that look on proudly while their children go on a rampage... I cant stand them. My own children.... just a look from me and they stop on their tracks when they are at someone else's home but in our own home, they have a free hand to do what they want as long as it is not dangerous.. Thanks again !!

 

your daughter sounds absoloutely adorable.....for all the complaints i have abt kids...I simply love naughty kids

 

Thank you Navs23 for your kind words... I am honoured and humbled by your words and also your nomination...many thanks

 

Thank you sushma....