M:Hey Divya shall I get you a Wii for Christmas
Divya(with a serious face): No, thank you. My gift is all ready and on its way from North Pole
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They have been teaching the Bumburo song(Mission Kashmir - Preity Zinta and Hrithik Roshan)in Divyas class for a multi culture performance. She herself not knowing hindi would sing with random words which sounds/rhymes close to the actual lyrics. Me got curious and asked her how are other kids meaning non-indian kids singing this song.
Divya,"They sing like this...Bumburo, bumburo blah, blah, blah, blah bumburo"
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Lost and Found
People who have met Sandhya ..even just couple of times.. may know this, she gets distracted so easily. Distraction happens even when you are out walking with her. She starts to walk with me and slowly trail behind if I'm not holding her hand and in some cases literally dragging her in a sense to keep up with me. As now she is not a *baby* any more she refuses to being held by me and insists that she would walk next to me on her own. So now whenever she trails behind, every now and then I had to stop turn back to check her and call her to hurry up. As to the question of why she is slow is because she likes to watch things around her, to an extent that she sometimes comes to a standstill and stop walking to watch whatever that's amusing to her...and things that amuse her are endless from simple conversation between complete strangers to just a traffic light or a passing car..goes on..but you get the idea.
This last thanksgiving weekend, we went out for shopping (of course we do contribute our part to the black Friday). After couple of stops we came to a complex housing both Walmart and Khols, M wanted to checkout something at khols but I wanted to get some basic things needed at home which were missing our radar when ever we go to the shop like Tooth Paste (I would like to add here that we had been using all kinds of tools to wipe out that last bit of paste from the tube because of our forgetfulness, really amazing..)So we decided to split me with Sandhya to Walmart and M with Divya to Khols. After we are done we met at Walmart and were going to go out when M told me that he bumped in to one of our friend there in Walmart when he was coming in, me curious to meet her too said to him that I will go meet her and join him at the parking lot. Assuming that both the girls would follow him I retreated in to the store not looking back just to get frustrated not being able to locate my friend in that crowd.
I went out to the parking lot and saw M waiting with Divya. When M did not find Sandhya with me he asked me about her, he was assuming that Sandhya was with me. We both panicked and ran back in to the store without knowing what to do. A big ball of acid started churning in my stomach. Where would we look for her in this crowd I thought. Swimming across the crowd we reached the staffs standing near the counter and asked them if they had seen a girl wandering, explaining her jacket color and stuff. They said there was a small girl found and is made to sit with a security guard near the fitting room and that they were about to page for the parents. We made a mad rush to the fitting rooms praying that the girl should be Sandhya. Well yes, it was Sandhya sitting there as calm as ever and doing her favorite thing..watching people passing by. I felt angry, sad and happy ...roller coaster of emotions. But she did started crying the moment she saw us..
Once after we reached the car, all kinds of scary thought came popping out..what if she went out to the parking lot searching for us, what would have happened if someone had took her or got hit by a car...With all these thoughts we turned back to her and said,"Sandhya this is what happens if you don't pay attention", at this point came out the background of her getting missed. When I turned back to look for my friend, Sandhya had started walking with M and Divya at which point Divya had told her that she was supposed to go with me and should not join her and appa. Sandhya listening to her sister obediently turned back and tried to join me, me unaware of this was walking swiftly, in the process she missed tracking me and ended up wandering around crying.
Both me and M started to preach what she was supposed to do (god forbid) if this is to happen again. We pressed as strong as possible that she should never ever go out of the store or with any stranger even if they say that they saw the parents waiting out and that they would take her to the parents...hopefully she remembers it, because it did not look like it, as she responded to us saying, "I know the person I talked to was working there, how can they ever take me out during their work time, it cannot happen" Sigh.. .
This last thanksgiving weekend, we went out for shopping (of course we do contribute our part to the black Friday). After couple of stops we came to a complex housing both Walmart and Khols, M wanted to checkout something at khols but I wanted to get some basic things needed at home which were missing our radar when ever we go to the shop like Tooth Paste (I would like to add here that we had been using all kinds of tools to wipe out that last bit of paste from the tube because of our forgetfulness, really amazing..)So we decided to split me with Sandhya to Walmart and M with Divya to Khols. After we are done we met at Walmart and were going to go out when M told me that he bumped in to one of our friend there in Walmart when he was coming in, me curious to meet her too said to him that I will go meet her and join him at the parking lot. Assuming that both the girls would follow him I retreated in to the store not looking back just to get frustrated not being able to locate my friend in that crowd.
I went out to the parking lot and saw M waiting with Divya. When M did not find Sandhya with me he asked me about her, he was assuming that Sandhya was with me. We both panicked and ran back in to the store without knowing what to do. A big ball of acid started churning in my stomach. Where would we look for her in this crowd I thought. Swimming across the crowd we reached the staffs standing near the counter and asked them if they had seen a girl wandering, explaining her jacket color and stuff. They said there was a small girl found and is made to sit with a security guard near the fitting room and that they were about to page for the parents. We made a mad rush to the fitting rooms praying that the girl should be Sandhya. Well yes, it was Sandhya sitting there as calm as ever and doing her favorite thing..watching people passing by. I felt angry, sad and happy ...roller coaster of emotions. But she did started crying the moment she saw us..
Once after we reached the car, all kinds of scary thought came popping out..what if she went out to the parking lot searching for us, what would have happened if someone had took her or got hit by a car...With all these thoughts we turned back to her and said,"Sandhya this is what happens if you don't pay attention", at this point came out the background of her getting missed. When I turned back to look for my friend, Sandhya had started walking with M and Divya at which point Divya had told her that she was supposed to go with me and should not join her and appa. Sandhya listening to her sister obediently turned back and tried to join me, me unaware of this was walking swiftly, in the process she missed tracking me and ended up wandering around crying.
Both me and M started to preach what she was supposed to do (god forbid) if this is to happen again. We pressed as strong as possible that she should never ever go out of the store or with any stranger even if they say that they saw the parents waiting out and that they would take her to the parents...hopefully she remembers it, because it did not look like it, as she responded to us saying, "I know the person I talked to was working there, how can they ever take me out during their work time, it cannot happen" Sigh.. .
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