The kids in my life!

Please don't misunderstand this line...This post isn't to declare that there's a baby on the way, just to talk about the one's that I love so much. I've always heard people say: Kids are adorable, especially others kids. Don't know how true that is for life but I've had some exciting encounters with the closest babies in my life. And I am about to share those cute incidents with my blog( and its meager readers)....

Abhiraj(my sister Niti's son) is the first baby I felt close to. Though he isn't a baby anymore and more of a notty 6-yr old now, I still feel like he is the baby I have tendered nights for. He's spent many days and some sleepless nights with me and has troubled me a lot but he is the star of the lineup...

Now the episode I remember of him the most : He was around six months old and was at his Nani house. Niti, mum and me were playing with him. He had just been fed and his tummy was full of milk. Now, I the masi didn't know that and just wanted to play with her fav nephew. I lay down on the bed and started swinging him up and down. At first, he was very happy and all smiles. After a couple of swings, the smile suddenly changed into a weird expression which I didn't understand. Before I knew it, the cause of that discomfort was all in MY mouth. Yes, he had vomited his curdled milk right in my face...Never will I forget the taste and the incident...Will surely tell the notty chap this when he grows up...


Now for a grown up boy. Ayush, my nephew in law (BTW, this is just for explanation). He was 7 when I entered the family and old enough to understand everything. He was always shy of the girl-boy relation as he was in the growing up stage. Maybe he understood the nuances but felt he was small to completely figure it out. But his playful answers are what i still cherish. This has happened a couple of times and we still laugh at it. He continuously refuses to kiss me. He is all of ten now and I am thrice his age. But he blushes and turns red at the mere insistence of even showing a little affection towards me. I know he is very fond of me but we all fail to figure out the reason for his resistance. But, one thing is for sure, we love to laugh at teasing him about it.

Noni or Adya for some of you is Ayush's sister and an adorable one at that. Just an year younger to him, she is truly affectionate. Best is, she knows how to show it and we all love her for that....Typical girly, she is just as emotional as I am. Her lovable episode happened just couple of months after I had got married. We had gone to the market and Noni and I were walking hand in hand(something we do quite often).


All of a sudden, somebody touched upon the topic of Noni getting married and leaving her house. Her quick response was that she would never leave her mother and go. Then she thought for a minute and looked at me quizzically. And innocently asked me, "Don't you ever miss your mother?" Anyone else asking me this would have made me cry. But the emotion in her eyes just made me hug her and laugh it off. We talk about this so often when we discuss Noni. Such a doll...


Another boy baby I love is Yash. Varun Bhaiya's son. He is more chirpy now than he was when he was little. But he is a darling too. He has seen me as an unmarried bua who was always at home and now as the married bua who is far away. Staying together, his tender age didn't allow him to understand that I was going to get married and go away soon. The moment that touched my heart the most was this: I had just got married and he was still to come to terms with the fact that I no longer lived in the same house. Mohit and I were visiting and as we sat in his room having breakfast, he complained to him about taking me away. He demanded that Mohit leave the house and let me be here with them. Almost bought a tear to my eye then and even now...

Now for a girl...Saira, my friend Sumedha's daughter is the closest to a girl child I became. She was born and brought up in front of me and so both of us relate to each other just as a masi and niece would do. Her story is almost similar to what Yash's is. Being the same age, maybe both didn't understand the concept of a girl leaving her house after getting married. Her first b'day after I got married fell in January. Sumedha was celebrating the event and two days later I got a phone call. I was informed that Saira wanted to speak with me. She was complaining that this was the first time I had failed to attend her b'day and that this was inexcusable. She further went on to tell me that I cannot repeat this mistake. Well, she forgot about me her next b'day but I didn't....


The latest to join this elite club and the reason for writing all this is Shrish. Mohit's cousin's little boy. He is about to turn one next week but is naughtier than his age. We were visiting him and I loved playing with him. I had seen him all grown up after many months. Now, while his mum cooked some lovely food for us, I took upon the job of controlling him. Little did I know that I will be paid back for irritating him. While I had only had a taste of some vomit on me, I was about to have another dirty element on me. Yes, Shrish pooped on me and I had my Zara t-shirt all brown-green( Whatever shade u can imagine)... But it was more funny than annoying. The fool that I am thought it was mint chutney and was about to taste it...Thank your stars, Shrish, I didn't...Else I would always be reminding you of it once you would be grown up...

This list is endless and Tweety, Dhruv, Vanshi, Raghu, Tanvi, Diva, Rhea, Jai, Ishaan, Nishtha, Ditya and Saisha are also in it...I am sorry if I have missed some kids but I love you all. You kids make life so special....