Dam her. She is now grown up. A big girl. The way she
reacts, the tantrums she throws, the big girl. I am suddenly realizing that the
she is now grown up quite a bit. In the sense that now there is a certain sense
of maturity that she exhibits that makes her different from the small tiny girl
who I could all cuddle up. Sure girls remain girls in that sense that she still
wants a hug at night before sleeping and she smells my night suit and says… yay…
papa smell. So that’s still a relief. But man she is grown up.
She comes upto her mama’s ears and she can simply whisper
something without Jasmine bending. She weighs a ton and I can no longer carry
her. I can’t even pull her off the bed. It hurts the shoulders. She had power
in her hands and when she and I play slap slap… I get hurt. The last few days I
have realized that she is a big girl now.
Jasmine and me were telling her – how you are a big girl and
now you need to behave like a big grown up. You have to sit right, cross your
legs, no slouching and lying around. Sit on the table but don’t rest your head
on your hand while eating. All the parenting is now focused on you are now
grown up. Behave like that. Arrrggghhh.
But at the same time I am looking forward to talking to her.
That is if she would like to talk to me. I look forward to long conversations
on various topics. I look forward to being challenged. I want to get into arguments
in which we will be forced to check the veracity of what the other is saying by
checking the internet or some of the books that we have. That should be fun. As
of now she adds a lot of value to conversations where I am trying to learn
about stuff she did in school. Some of the stuff is pretty advanced for me. In
fact I wonder why we teach so much to the kids. Most of what we learn is lost
on most of the kids. But for the time being, it’s fun learning stuff.
Back to Jispa – Jispa if we don’t argue on some random irrelevant
stuff to our life then I don’t think we are talking enough. Did you understand that?
Here is one to a big showdown. But yes – after the showdown I expect a huge
hug.
Here is a song for you…
