Dear Thambi,
Today you complete 18 months. A big one for you and a bliss for us. You have made our family complete. You are the most bubbly child I have ever seen. Always ready with a smile, you entice even strangers easily. No one can look away from you. Right from the kids and aunts and uncles you meet at the playground to the gardener, the security guards, the men working on the roadside and the teachers in Pappa’s school, everyone is your friend. Everyone looks forward to seeing you and your smile, that they have started asking if we go without you.
Don’t think you would remember the long train journey (1 hour) from Changi airport back home. You started grabbing everyone’s attention by smiling at them and batting eyes. You even pulled tired office goers into responding to your “Boo-peep game”. Then, the other day when K aunty and R uncle had come home, you had your trade mark smile plastered onto your face everytime they turned in your direction. It was indeed a photographic moment.
You ape your sister. You love to dance with her and can emulate her barathanatyam steps. You look so cute when you bend your hands in a pose and stamp your leg saying “thaiya thai”. The singing sessions are even more adorable. You would sit down and sing “pa, paaaaa” while putting the thalam.
Your love for wheels has not abated. You fancy all vehicles with cars taking a special space. The words that you can clearly say now are car, car keys, taxi, trai (train), akka, anna, amma, baba (meaning yourself), nyna, daddy and tata. And in all these, its those related to car, that you can say spontaneously at all times without prompting. The others you would tell at times and refuse at other times. You also love to play with the ball. You would bring the ball to us and say, “ba, kick”. Which reminds me of your first syllabus words. You say “Ho” for hot, “Co” for cot, “ba” for ball, and many more.
Do you know how you frustrate your sister? You make her repeat whatever she was playing with you over and over again. Sometimes the pour soul would have done it atleast 10 times and still you wouldn’t leave her. You would go pull/push her, complain to us or simply cry until she does it again.
All in all, you have been a wonderful bundle of joy that makes each and every day special.
Have a fun filled day darling.
Yours besotted mom.
