Joke

We were partaking in our weekly Sunday night ritual of changing nail paint - little Haana and I. The little girl chooses the color she wants this week for herself and for Mumma. 

Today I was painting her toe nails and told her like always "No moving". And after sometime I followed that with "No talking either" so that she doesn't move her legs and spoil the nail paint. Neither of which she pays heed to usually.

After a precious couple seconds of silence Miss Haana leaned over to me and said "Hey Mumma, why don't you tell me a joke".

I stopped what u was doing and looked up to make sure I'm still dealing with a two and a half year old! 

When you point 1 finger at someone..

When you point one finger at someone there are 3 more pointing back at you.
This was the first line of a song I learnt back in school. The lyrics go on to say what the middle finger is saying and what the ring finger is saying; I must not have been listening 'cause I don't remember. But, it's apparent that Suhaana doesn't agree with the song at all.

Ever since her newborn days (she's going to be 2 months old now! Can scarcely imagine where time is flying) she uses to always hold the index finger of both her hands out. As if she's pointing at something, anything. Or maybe she's giving instructions: 'This is how you should be changing the diaper'. Or maybe she needs some more time: 'Just gimme one more minute with this pacifier; I promise I'll be done in 1 more minute'. Or maybe it's her do-not-disturb sign: 'I'm busy with this bottle now, your cooing and talking is just distractive and mildly annoying, just go and sit over there( finger pointing)'.

I've rankled my brain trying to figure out what the finger pointing means. Till I noticed her toes. They're usually wide apart from each other. Each toe stands out like it's got nothing to do with the other four. It's like crying out 'I'm not with them!!' I figured, the index finger and her toe fingers are just not a friendly lot. See for yourself!