Gabbu Singh Diaries 6 | That fun, frolic and little bit of embarrassment.

Your life changes when your toddler starts talking, not that the women in your life were anyways giving you a chance to speak a lot. But at least, in this state of speechlessness you can smile, rejoice and cherish it for a long time. So these days Avyaan behaves and talks as if he has just returned from an exile and he has to talk, talk and talk to make up for all the lost speech time of the last two years. So some of these anecdotes are really hilarious, some are embarrassing and some are way too awkward to be shared J.

Now he has this habit of calling anything that is not in place as ‘broken’. So if he is watching his rhymes on the iPad and something goes wrong with it, he would shout for help calling ‘ daddy its broken, fix it’, and similarly for everything that is not per his wish. So while the much awaited summer season arrived (so to say) and it was time to do away with the ankle kissing pajamas and adorn those comfy shorts. The boy was so shocked, that he literally cried looking at his bare legs (from knee to toe) and resorted to his usual broken chant, ‘daddy my pajama is broken, please fix it’. It took me a while to hold on to my laughter, empathize with his ‘broken’ emotions and ensure him that his shorts/pajamas are indeed not broken J.

One fine evening in Milan, while we were exploring the fashion capital on an open top bus, he was sitting beside me, pointing out and calling out names to whatever was passing by. Shortly, we passed by a billboard that had  2-3 bikini clad models advertising about some popular Italian beach destination. The moment he saw that billboard he shouted in utter excitement, ‘Daddy, it’s aunt in diapers, aunt in diapers’. Needless to say, hearing his innocent remark the entire upper deck was in splits and Gabbu Singh’s dad was found coping-up with a bout of embarrassment J.

Few weeks later while we were in the holy city of Vatican marveling over the iconic St. Peters Basilica, Avyaan was busy running around the large hallway of the basilica. We kept insisting him to fold his hands and seek blessings from the almighty but he was way too busy to enjoy his day out in that beautiful monument. When I kept on pestering him for the same, he finally paid heed by shouting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ at the centrum of the world’s largest religion, much to the joy of the omnipresent and giggling Indian touristy community there J.

So having emphasized the importance of grooming right from his early days, Avyaan acknowledges its credence and on most occasions adheres to what is expected out of him in those regards, timely cutting ‘yucky’ nails being one of them. So while visiting the London’s momentous ‘Natural History Museum’ couple of weeks back, Gabbu happened to spend his quality time in the most popular Dinosaur section of the museum. He was so enchanted by and observant of the gigantic replicas of those dinosaurs there that while leaving the section he innocently came to me and requested me to cut one of the dinosaur’s yucky nails. I somehow managed the situation by telling him that I have forgotten those big nail cutters at home. But it won’t be long when I would again be put on spot to cut some other dinosaur’s or may be a real dogie's yucky nails impromptu J

And as he speaks and speaks, that fun, frolic and little bit of embarrassment just keeps getting better and better.

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