I'll Show You

This morning, like most mornings, I opened the balcony door while Miss Haana was still asleep and looked at the sky. There were clouds hanging low and the beautiful blue of the sky scattered with pinks and goldens of the rising sun.

When I turned around I found the little girl sitting up in bed, eyes still brimming with sleep. I was pleasantly surprised as I always am to see her. I moved in closer to hug her and say good morning. To which she responded with the question: 

Did it stop raining Mumma?

I said, yes Gugu it stopped raining. 

To which she prodded- is it not raining anymore?

I agreed, it's not, anymore.

And then, slipping out of the bed immediately swinging to action, she said-Come Mumma, I'll show you the rainbow.

And we headed to the balcony with a purpose.

I feel I am so deep in the "I'll show you Mumma" phase! We didn't see a rainbow and concluded he must have gone to sleep at an inopportune moment. But for the record, my little girl is my rainbow of all All times :)

Popsicle Wars

It's not officially summer yet, but it's close enough. So today when I picked the litle girl from her Montessori we headed straight to the neighborhood store for popsicles (sound better when you scream the "Popsicles!!!!" out loud :) )

Both of us girls got ourselves a rainbow popsicle each. And we hung out on the pavement outside the store to enjoy our summer treats. After congratulating each other on how "coooold" and "tastyyyy" they were, we realized our treats were melting away and fast. Soon puddles of sticky pink droplets were forming next to the little girl  with incredible magnetic powers that were calling on Miss Haana and asking her to step or stick her finger in the yucky puddle. 

But then I reminded her the popsicle was melting fast; so we needed to get our acts together.

The little girl decided the litle droplets looked like rain drops. But wondered if they could be made to fly instead of falling from the popsicle to the puddle on the ground. She waved her hand but the popsicle went flying away! The stick was still in her hand. We giggled and giggled and then I saw the stick go flying away too.

And even more craziness followed. Now this naughty little thing wanted to go and step on the popsicle lying on the ground to squash it. "No!!" This time I prevailed but I could see it was a hard decision by the little girl. 

More jumping and "hurray"s later we headed home. These were the fun-nest popsicles of my life! :)