Chocolate Boy

We moved to our new house in 2nd week of January, 2021. On the 8th. There are some places little Bobby boy really likes in the new house. One of them is the pantry.

As soon as he sees the pantry door open, he scuttles towards it quietly. Thinking, 'If I dont make any noise, no one will notice me'. Once at the pantry, his first order of business is to take care of them cans. Normally, they are nicely arranged in a can-organizing-shelf. But little Bobby boy is not going to have any of that! He takes out as many cans as he can, sets them free from the clutches of the shelf, and sends each one of them rolling along on is way. They're then found is various corners of the living room. 

But on a recent endeavour, Bobby boy found  something else too. He found an interesting looking box. On closer inspection, the box opened and revealed several curious brown pieces. Little hands picked up the pieces and regarded them with interest. They seemed slippery and melty too. Let's taste them! Ooh, this is good! Soon brown gooey stuff was all over little Bobby boy's fingers, hands, clothes and face. Mumma found him this way, with chocolate all over him and inside the mouth!! "Chocolate boy!!". There's no record of how many pieces disappeared that evening!

Lion King

These holidays have been different. We had been looking at new homes on and off for maybe a year. My wish list for a new house was a compound of different things, some expressible, quantifiable, some not. So on and on we looked,  not quite finding the right match. And then suddenly, we found a house that seemed to check all the boxes and then some! Fast forward to the holidays and we have been packing for moving into the new place. It is very exciting and also very exhausting. I've been so anxious about getting everything done in time for the move, all the sorting, cleaning, organizing, packing. Been sleeping for barely 4 hours last several days, and that's not usually how I function. 

Other than the obvious plus side, of the beautiful new house we get to, all this packing has pleased someone for a whole different reason. 

Let me introduce you to the king of the jungle here. In the vast jungle of odd things and boxes - small, medium and large, there's but one king. He roams fearlessly, prowling around the forest of all things. If he finds something interesting, he doesn't hesitate, he rushes, even scurries to inspect at close quarters. He tastes everything. He makes his own path from between boxes, from above piles of clothes and below plastic bags. He explores cabinets, with first hand climb all the way in kind-of experimentation. He owns the place. He's free to roam, and he likes it this way. 

Thanks to the packing, there's stuff everything and we're much too busy to enclose him in a play pen, and then entertain him too. Some things we may not be going back to. Hmm..