Is this just a phase ?

Kavya is going through this phase where she wants to do everything amma does..If amma wears a pink salwar, she needs a pink pant dress..If amma keeps Santhanam, she wants it too, if amma gets a new dress, she wants one too..The other day when amma went shopping leaving Kavya at home, amma came home with a blue new dress..Kavya started crying on seeing the new dress saying Kavyakku pudhu dress illave ille, Kavyakku pudhu dress venum..Had a tough time calming her down !!!!!

She and Harry Potter

For the past few months, Kavya has developed a liking to listening to stories and trying to use pieces of them in the everyday life..Once she listened to the story of how Ganesha got his elephant head..She saw the Bal Ganesh video and the next thing she does is this -

She dances a few steps, calls it Rudra Thaandi (Rudra thandavam of Shiva when he gets angry with Ganesha for not letting him into his own house)

Then she raises her hand and makes a waving action which calls for whichever person in front of her to fall down (The way Shiva beheads Ganesha)

She then keeps her hand the way Gods bless us, and says Om Namo Namashivaaya (Shiva is blessing Ganesha to become alive)

The fallen person needs to get up and then she will come running to that person and hug him/her while calling Ganeshaaaaa...

Its so much fun to watch her do this, all her chithis keep asking her to do this all the time :-)

Now, she got bored of it in a while...Amma started to watch Harry Potter movies for timepass and Kavya watched it with her...She was hooked to it from the very first time..EVerytime HP comes on screen she used to say Hari Poter..Then one day she asked Amma to tell her the story of Harry Potter..She wanted to know who Dumbledore was...Now she promptly says that Dumbledore is HP's teacher and Ron, Hermione are HP's friends :-) She even weaves her own stories around HP sometimes...We were lighting mathaapoo yesterday..She held it in her hand, saw it for a while and said, Amma paaru Kavyaoda Wand...Amma became so excited and both of them kept saying Illuminus Maximus until the box of mathapoo got over :-)

Back :)

Hey, dunno if the blog missed me, but I sure have missed writing about a lot of things Kavya has been upto these days..Damn, I don't have that time anymore....With her going to school ,the long rides in the evenings, stories in the night and many other things keep me so occupied with the lil one...Maybe she is not a lil one anymore..Maybe she is..I really dont know..She keeps growing a bit every single day :-) And so are her tantrums....

Now she speaks in loong sentences and tries speaking in english too..The other day, she was eating a lollipop, when I asked her to share it with me she says - No lollipop for you, Amma....Share pannikanum kavya kooda Whatever happened to that little girl who used to scream for the same question a few months back !!! We went to the zoo last week and she says today I am go to the zoo...She frequently uses wat u want, come outside and Say Bye !!

The favourite dresses, well, she has developed a liking for her night shorts with stars on it and insists that she will wear it day and night, no matter where she goes..It was a bit difficult for me to get used to this, but now I would rather let her wear it than wipe her tears and hear her say Kavya kitte kochukadhe amma, siri, amma..ippadi elaam kochukadhe, Kavya paavam....And her blue beach slippers..she insists on wearing them to school too instead of her uniform shoes...Uffffff everyday we find some reason to get her out of that star dress and blue chappals and get her into her uniform !!!!!!

School is becoming fun for her..She keeps telling me stories of the happenings at school every afternoon before her nap...Invariably it is - Ava adicha, iva killina, chairlendhu thalli vitaa etc etc..One day she said that her teacher said All of you clap for Kavya..When I asked her why, she says she said the Chubby cheeks rhyme :-) Made me very very happy !!!!!!! Not because she said the rhyme, but for the way she came home and shared it with me ..MY sweet lil darling !!!!!

But the smart one she is, she still doesnt answer for this question - Appa pudikuma, Amma pudikumma...Just repeats the question and changes the topic :)