Oh No, You Didn't

I imagine several situations in little Bobby boy's life that will have me start with 'oh no, you didn't!'. I just didn't expect it to happen this soon.

Yesterday little Bobby boy was on his play-mat hobnobbing with his favourite lion, elephant and the silver bells. Little miss Haana was talking to him wanting to play with him. 

Now sometimes little Bobby boy's tiny feet get lost inside his pant legs. On this morning too, as Bobby boy was kicking vigorously, his feet got lost inside the pant legs. This gave little miss Haana an idea. She quickly tied the pant legs together!! Poor Bobby boy must have wondered why his feet cannot kick comfortably anymore and are getting caught in the pants instead. So he did what any baby would have done, he kicked harder and harder to free his feet! Initially Bobby boy had some success. Vigorous kicking caused the knot to come lose and voila, his feet were free again.. success!! He couldn't be more pleased!

But then the girl struck back! Little miss Haana saw what happened and smugly tied the pant legs together again, only this time, she double knotted! Bobby boy kicked back again, but poor thing couldn't free his feet this time. So, as any self respecting baby would have done, he just kept trying harder. The knot still did not give away. Instead, because of the kicking, the pants started coming off.. and before long, not just his feet, the entire both legs were free. Pant-free that is. The legs were naked now! And there was much giggling and laughing to be heard. Little girl was making a video of the deed.

I finally came around to check what the commotion was about, and saw the little boy pant-less, a pair or tied up pants lying around in a lump, a video in progress, and much giggling. "Awww my poor baby" was my first reaction,  followed by snatching back the phone to stop the video and much giggling of my own! 

No videos were posted of this event. And pants were eventually reinstalled on the little boy.. The giggling took a while to die down though!!

It's Raining Mud Here!!

You can check the forecast on whichever website, it won't tell you to watch out for this evening. The sky is overcast, the wind is 5-10mph. And it's raining mud. Chance of precipitation-100%. That was Friday.

Since it was good weather I let Miss Haana out in the yard on Friday. And as usual, she headed straight for the flower beds. They're her passion I should say. And she feels the amount of mud in the flower beds is unjust and disproportionate. In a bid to set everything right my little baby takes it upon herself - on her tiny shoulders to set the world (yard) right and redistribute the mud in an even, more just manner. This usually translates into taking fistfuls of mud from the flower beds and distributing it evenly (use of both palms) across the grass.

On Friday though, she thought it would be much more even if somehow the mud was falling from the skies, that way an even layer would cover everything! So I guess I shouldn't have been that surprised when she got 2 fist full of mud and threw it up above her head suddenly!! The mud was evenly distributed over her hair, shoulders, feet, pants and surroundings. I think she was sufficiently impressed with the results because before I could assimilate what just happened here, she had done it again and then some!

Meanwhile I was debating if I should stop this immediately or get a video of this craziness for posterity.. She, in that time frame, had gotten another couple of fistfuls of dirt and decided they need to be spread out inside the house (it didn't have any dirt at all!).

At that point, obviously, stopping her was useless, I got out my camera and starting making a video - mud rain.