May is a difficult month in Mumbai and if you have a terrace flat it becomes worse in the afternoon. Despite all resistance, I had to switch the ac on, so that Ridhima finds some respite and takes a siesta. She doesn't want to rest in the afternoon and it has been difficult for Rinku and me to keep her in one place so that she calms herself down and goes to sleep. What happens otherwise is, by the time it is 7 in the evening she starts feeling sleepy. She wouldn't even care for a glass of milk. We do not want her to sleep the entire night with an empty stomach.
Today is Sunday and after trying all that we could to let her sleep we finally gave up and I had to switch the ac on. Albeit her mom and I have decided not to talk to her so that she does not open her chatterbox and whiles away the entire afternoon, again. She is one little mischievous girl. She knows how to talk sweet and get things done the way she wants them to. "Pappa please switch off the wifi and data, I don't want any of them, I will manage with games only." You give your smartphone to her and within a moment she will cuddle herself in a corner and start watching ChuChu TV on Youtube. You cannot trust her rolling eyes.
And she is now awake, yes this is all the time she has spent sleeping. 30 mins at the max. Let me help her sleep again...
Yesterday when she woke up late in the morning her Mom complained, "Beta! You went to sleep very early in the evening and didn't eat anything. For God's sake please sleep in the afternoons." She replied out of her bed with a lazy voice, "What was the menu last night, Mamma." And I was like, seriously!
She wants to do everything all by herself. She will dress herself up in a blink and she knows what matches with what. The Summer Holiday has made her all the more creative.
She is now completely awake, ready with her color-clay (she bought yesterday) to add some more fun to the moments of her beautiful life. She talks to her toys as if they speak with her, she is so involved in what she does. I swear by this careless, fearless age when all you care is what you love and what you feel like doing. Everything else is less important and can wait.
Nothing matters more than now. The biggest problem with us is, we think there is time.
