Dancing is fine, but making others dance?

Dancing has been one thing which has attracted me off late. I used to enjoy it just by watching our stars dance on screen, though never felt like dancing. 

One big advantage of being a software engineer is you get to attend parties and dance. And this bug has bitten me too, I too want to dance. Willingness to dance and don't know how to shake legs is like a paralyzed person willing to walk, a guy doesn't know how to swim and want to get into water and a small boy holding a bicycle and doesn't know how to peddle it. I am absolutely in the same position of all of them above. 

Enough of me, this post is not about me, its about Chinni. Well, she knows couple of steps already and enjoys doing them. No prizes for guessing, the tunes are non other than her favorite rhymes. That's not all. She wants even us to dance along with her. Oh My God, this is what I had wished for. What else can I ask?

Chinni is right now in Dharwar with her grand parents, N's parents. Guess what, she made her grand parents dance too. Got to here that Chinni's grand father was dancing in full josh. That particular moment, they might have been on cloud nine.I missed it.

It's true, children are the happiest moments of our life, no denial even a fraction of a percentage. One more wish, I want to dance with my cutie with proper steps!

Pappa, go to bed. Its time to sleep!

Now I am on the other side of the table. Till now, I have been guiding Chinni to go to bed, telling her its time to sleep. And she has reluctantly obeyed many times. But things have changed now completely and the situation is quite the reverse.

I hardly get time to spend time with my laptop. So my usual plan is to get hold of it when Chinni goes to bed. She starts searching immediately when I am not beside her. So the "search pappa mission" starts immediately. and ultimately she finds me with laptop in the living room. I am taken by surprise "Chinni you haven't slept yet ?". She just orders me to close the laptop and come to bed.

I don't dare ignore her words else my laptop is killed within the next minute, alas, I can't do the same with her. So I politely shut it down and carried Chinni to bed. She smiles :)

The 4th Anniversary

Exactly 4 years back, around the same time, I had tied the knot to start off a journey with N hoping to fulfill each others dreams by crossing all the hurdles. The journey had started a bit early than that unofficially!

Well, we have crossed a lot of hurdles and they seem to be endless at this point of time.Its not only us, every one goes through similar phase, if not same. The difference would be the support you get from your near and dear ones.

Yesterday, as I asked "Which is your best day in these 4 years?" to N, the reply matched with my thoughts and its so true. "Birthday of Chinni". None other than Chinni's entry into our life was the best day. We both cherish it for the rest of our life and why not ? the happiness we got from Chinni was/is immense and priceless.

I remember the days when she was around 8 months and N had rejoined her job, Chinni used to wait for us at the door step. The picture of her smile and eagerness to embrace she had looking at us is imprinted permanently in my heart. It hasn't changed at all even after she has grown 2 years old. She still waits for us, jumps and hug us when we return from office. That one hug makes me forget all the worries, sadness and washes away the tiredness. Some times I will be smiling all by myself thinking of her act, while traveling in bus to office and back home.

Hoping and wishing for even better years in the future. Happy Anniversary N.

Cycling and Drawing

Cycling and Drawing are Chinni's recent upgrades in her skill port. While cycle has been her companion since Hong Kong days, but never did she try to peddle it. Cycle was more of a prop till now. She used to stand on it, keep her play things on it, wash it or just just sit on it while having dinner.

Off lately,  her effort to make it move has turned out to be successful. But there are couple of deadlock peddle positions when she can't make cycle move. She screams when she can't make the cycle move, a little push brings back the smile on her face.

Drawing is one art that I wanted to pursue since my high school days. I was good at it and still remember the appreciation I received for drawing Dr Rajendra Prasad in primary school. I went on with my adventures with drawing till 9th std and lost hold of it then onwards. There was no scope and encouragement!

There was a handicraft wall hanging of a beautiful Shilabalike during my 9th std in my home. I don't know if we still have it, but it was beautiful hanging made in cloth. That sculpture caught my eyes one fine day and I decided to sketch it on my drawing paper. I took a largest available drawing sheet and started on it. I took couple of months to give the finishing touch. 

There was one part which I could not draw satisfactorily. It was her breasts! Since she was shilabalike like the one in Belur and Halebidu. Finally, I decided to draw her breasts using a compass from my geometric box !!!

Can't hold my laugh when I remember it. How innocent was I!!! Really!!!

Last week Chinni got a color box as gift in a birthday party. Since then she has been drawing on paper and wall. And here is her first master piece. 

There is always a first time for everything and I didn't want to miss this one first drawing of Chinni.