Showing posts with label chair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chair. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Tree, Hose and Bubbles

Last weekend I stepped outside in the front yard for a bit, and realized quite surprisingly that it was actually not bad outside. I went in and got my fancy folding chair (it reclines too!) and positioned it under the tree shade. Bobby boy had just fallen asleep. 'I guess I am going to have a few minutes of peaceful time', was my thought. Except, before i could get to the chair, someone else did. 

Little miss Haana placed herself in my chair under the tree. Not willing to admit defeat, i squeezed myself on to the chair right next to her as well. We sat there looking at cotton puff clouds in the blue sky, my favourite thing to do! After playing the have-you-never game for sometime, slightly drowsy, i said to little miss Haana, "It's getting kind of warm now. Let's go play with the hose". Resounding agreement. We tried to plot a prank in which we will ask dad to come out to the garage, and in stead, spray him with the water hose. But alas, he was too clever for us. He got a wind something was fishy and he took off faster than we could corner him. By the time i got to the garage, little miss Haana was already dripping wet! I got in the soaking fun soon enough. 

By now little Bobby boy was awake and had just fed. There he was sitting in his stroller, watching us playing with the hose in the alley. I decided he couldn't be having too much fun just sitting there watching us. "We must take this party to the bath tub where Bobby can join in". 

And soon, little Bobby boy, little miss Haana and I were amidst cotton puff bubbles in the bath tub. Bobby boy, with his new found grasp was trying to use both his hands and 1 leg to get a hold of the yellow ducky as she bobbed around. When he missed and splashed the water instead, it would send the yellow ducky farther away bobbing in the water. Little miss Haana helped out by sending the yellow ducky back his way. After a few attempts, he finally got a hold of the ducky, and of course it went straight into his mouth! 

No pee pee fountains this time! 

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Confession

I have a confession to make.

Yesterday Suhaana and I were hanging out together. She was on my lap. I was on the dining room chair, and both of us were browsing around on the laptop. We were having fun talking together, and looking online at perspective dinnerware - Suhaana didn't approve of anything so my wallet is still safe.

All was going well till the little girl started to try to get on the table. This endeavor is not new for her, she does it everyday at the day care lady's place when I go to pick her up and the lady and I are chatting on the dining table and having tea together. Again and again I tried to dissuade her to climb on to the table. And again and again the determined girl was resolute in her attempts to get on to the table. A couple of times I tried to let her climb on (holding her for her safety), for her to naturally realize the futility of getting on to the table in the first place. It didn't work. She just wanted to get on to the table. And once she got on, she refused to budge. I was reduced to a safety net, though, because I had to hold on to her with both hands for fear of her falling and getting hurt.

Soon, I was exasperated, and wanted her down from the table and back in my lap. But tried as I did, she just wanted to be on the table. My patience was wearing thin. And finally, I was so irritated that I picked her up, in both my hands, and put her down on the floor, and told her that I'm done with all her stubbornness, this is where she gets to be, I'm done with her!

The little girl realized Mom was not joking. She got all serious when I finally put her down. She was looking down on the floor in serious contemplation when I was giving her a piece of my mind in irritation. And then.. when I was least expecting it, she looked up at me, smiled and said "I loee yoo". Like a gush of flood waters, I instantly felt so sorry for loosing my patience and getting irritated - giving her a piece of my mind when all she wanted was what all kids want - to play. I hugged and kissed her and said "I love you too baby!!".

Soon she was back in my lap and we were sitting on the dining chair together looking at perspective dinnerware..