First Stage Performance

She made all our speculations wrong. We parents assumed that their daughter is dancing for the tunes of 'Senorita' as she remembered all the steps flawlessly.

After few days we had a doubt as she said its a Japanese dance that she's been dancing for. With confusion and excitement we waited for the final day.

Dressed in a pink and peach Japanese robe(as it looked so), straws pinned up on the hair and a hand fan; she finally turned up on the stage. She looked very tiny amidst other peers and she became almost invisible while turning and concentrating on her steps and song.

She perfectly tuned her body to the harp music that played in the background. By the time her teacher realised that she was not visible and pushed her front the music stopped and everyone applauded:)

She finds immense comfort in holding my arms while sleeping.

Though, she takes a lot of topsy- turvy turns before she rediscovers her particular point of consolation each time.

Finally, when she does find solace either on my cheeks or elbows and presses her warm palms against them to go into her dreamy world, I too sleep like a baby.

Mehendi

This is how she got ready for my cousin's wedding!

Growing up to be Intelligent

She is the one who reminds her father to switch off the lights before leaving the room.

She perfectly placed an apple infront of the fire to heat it. The reason: her mother had explained her not to eat it soon after taking it out from the refrigerator and to wait till it's almost back to room temperature.

She scolded me for throwing away her cut nails as she thought that the nails would get hurt and start crying if done so.

'She turned three'

Birthday list

Anvitha's third birthday is slowly on the way....
She has learnt that her favourite day is approaching.
She has already presented her list of things for the day....the new Fisherprice 'Pink' baby which talks and a remote controlled car.
Somebody save us!!!

Saree mania

Saree is her new obsession.
The moment she looks at someone wearing a saree she too wants one.
But this time the colour of the saree she's demanding for is 'Purple' and not 'Pink'...strange!
We are waiting for her granny's arrival as it has been ordered to us that Anvitha's first Saree will be bought by her.

Eco-friendly

Anvitha's eco-friendly kitchen set!

My little girl has grown up a bit today.
She, at last, has learned to pedal her bicycle.
After pedalling, she exclaimed "Amma I can ride the cycle, I am a Big girl now!!!

Desire of growing up

Anvitha has been eyeing on my high heeled sandals (which i bought after so many years). She is not even three years and she wants to wear a 3 inch heeled sandals. I explained her that she has to grow up to wear them. Now, because of that, she wants to grow up fast. She is ready to drink her milk and eat food to become big and strong- the result would be growing up fast so that she would try on all her mother’s belongings ranging from fancy ear-rings to sarees to cosmetics to sandals.

There was a time when I too wanted to grow up fast and study in college because I thought all the people who went to college enjoyed and had a great life. Never did I realise the responsibility that came with growing up. My daughter too will realise it one day but then she would be a grown up girl.

Pinky

The colour Pink has become a synonym for Anvitha now.
She thinks whatever is in pink colour has to her sole property.
She has a array of things in that colour- dress, toys, shoes, bangles, hairbrush, watch, glasses, her kitchen set, umbrella etc etc.,
Though it's her favourite colour she always says it as 'Blue'. So need to understand that whenever she utters Blue it's ought to be 'Pink'.
This colour swapping has come down considerably now, her love (or rather obsession) for pink objects remains intact.

Backbeat

'My friend Ganesha'

It all started with her Bal Ganesh movie...
She must have watched the movie hundred times by now.
She utters a few of the dialogues too.
Bal Ganesh, mooshik (mouse), modak, Nandi are all her friends.
Her love for him grew even more when her 'doddappa' bought her a 'Bal Ganesh' doll.
She has played with the doll, worshipped him, has had endless conversations with him.

The idol that was brought during Ganesh Chaturthi became her new Ganesha.
She hugged him and photographed herself with him, when brought home.
On the day of immersion she was all told and prepared by her dad that her beloved Ganesha would go to a swimming pool that day and would not come back.
She was indeed very excited to see her Ganesha taking a dip in the water.
She jumped with excitement while going to the lake shouting 'Ganapathi bappa moraya'.
But it was after the immersion, that she realised her friend had left her.
She cried unconsolably for almost an hour asking him to come back.

At present she is happy with her Ganesha doll and is back to her playtime with him.

When Anvitha became Radha

Learning shapes

Circle, square, triangle, oval, diamond and star...these are the shapes she has started recognizing without any difficulty.
She has rather started generalizing these shapes in her daily activities.
The plate in which she eats is round, the TV she watches is square (though she cannot differentiate between square and rectangle), the road safety signboards are pictured on a triangle board, the rice grain she eats and the seed of the date fruit she eats is indeed oval in shape...
I was cutting cucumber the other day in circles and she said 'that's a circle'. Later, i cut them into sticks and chopped them.
'Now they have turned into squares' she remarked. I was impressed.

This is how learning should proceed...from knowing specific concepts to applying them to daily life.