Niece!

Niece or nephew is one of the most special relations one can ever have. My niece is also very special to me. She is Sahana. She is an “arundha vaalu” when she plays with my daughter. Otherwise she is so matured. You cannot see her get surprised. Funny thing is you do whatever to surprise her, but you can still see her just calm and express in one word “its good”.

She is so intelligent, very accommodative, very adjustable in nature etc etc. I can bet no children of her age can be so co-operative to their parents. Very disciplined brought up.   

Here are few funny incidents I remember about her when she was just 5 years old. She came on a vacation from US when I was 7 months pregnant and she was curious to see the baby inside me. I said “darling, you cannot see the baby as it is inside my tummy.” I guess she got intimidated and immediately responded “Yuckyyy…why did you eat the baby athai?”

When she again came next year for vacation, my baby was 7 months old. I guess she would have thought she can play with the baby like she does with her friends. But she was bored in 10 mins with the baby and she said “athai, give the baby to paatti and come… lets play”.

Again another time when my baby got cold & cough, my niece asked how did the baby catch the cold. I told her may be because of the shampoo bath that I gave her. She got intimidated and asked me “Athai, why did you feed shampoo baath to baby?”

And a couple of years ago, I was telling my niece that I used to write letters in post cards or inland letters to friends and relatives when I was young like her. She innocently asked me “how did you send those letters… with the help of pigeons?”. She made me intimidated this time. I wonder what she thought of my age!