Today Ishaan, my nephew turns 2.... He was born in the morning 2 years ago and has gone from being a mouse to a full blown 2 year old who is more than happy to beat up people, get married to Gehna in his playschool and some bhaiya from upstairs, is very clear that Anna Massi (me) always comes in a plane and no one else can do that, is also very clear when I am around that Nannu (mom) is his (and obviously not mine!), sings rock on songs with a plastic tennis racket as the guitar, calls piano panno and uses the same word for asking you to put on his shoes for him.. pannno naa... has a crazy sense of humour (well if you have met his parents you would know where that comes from!) will speak to his grandparents in marathi and to my mom in hindi :).. shakes one shoulder and dances in a cirlce going dhin chak dhin chak, obsesses about everything going in its proper place (proper place defined by him!), will say 'ok bye' if he does not want to talk to you or if you are disturbing him in his routine (whatever the routine is) when he gets a firing from manna or sallo, he will sit quitely for sometime and then say sorry mamma... ok and smile reaallyyy cutely.
Wishing him all the fun that he wants to have and oh, his grandparents have gifted him a cycle, so he is off to a new phase of his life... the one where he has a lot more mobility and the one where my sister will loose a lot more weight!!! wish my grandparents would have gifted me a cycle when i turned 2.... atleast then i would know how to ride one and not have to begin this journey when im nearing 30!!
