Up Late

My lil Mummu is all of 16 now....sweet sweet sweet 16...just months...I don't know how am I gonna react when those months turn into YEARS...ahhhhhhmmmmmmmmm???well we will have to just wait and watch...and thats not exactly why I m sitting up late...

Mummu has started going to Day care, and as is the case with all the Nurseries/Day cares, they arrange for couple of phasing-in-sessions with the Parent(whichever parent works closer to the Nursery...and thats ME) and Kid and the Key workers. Just like all parents I was a lil apprehensive....Not so much as to toss and turn in the bed for weeks....or just clutch and unclutch my palms and turn them into this COLD tight balls of fist(can't do that with a baby in your arms, can you now???) ...I would wonder and sometimes dread...what will happen to the Baby rather Babies??? oh you are thinking I am talking about My baby...nnnnnnaaaaaahhhhh about all the other babies/kids who are gonna be there...
It was deja vu...something straight out of my dreams and into my life...I took Mummu to this Nursery called Eureka...I got in, holding my lil baby in my arms...and was just getting my rounds of introductions done with the gals/ladies there and mainly with the Key Worker, Sal (who was gonna look after my lil baby) no sooner was that done...my lil baby...slided out of my arms and went to each of the kids saying Baby baby baby...and in the 2 hours that I was with her...I don't remember her turning around and looking for me...or crying for me (thats the appropriate reaction I was hoping for :( )
All she managed to do was charm this lil stud Oliver who came to her and pushed all those silky curls off her eyes(impressive!!!) and towards the end of 2 hours, he managed to hug her as well...which was the first
Ahhmmmmmmmmm...I was up late thinking about My dolls first day in nursery...

Things

that Mummu loves to do
1. She is addicted to TV especially to songs
2. She dances with her right hand in the air
3. She starts her dance with tapping of her right foot
4. She doesn't like her hair tied
5. She forces Law of Gravity on everything, the drawers, the biscuits, her dads specs and the laptops (Phew!!! we need to relocate that laptop now)
6. She loves Mobile phones...and loves to bang it on the floor...and loves to call the very 1st number on the redial list
7. Wen she sees that her dudu is ready in the bottle, she jogs to her play area and waits for the bottle to be handed over to her
8. Her favorite toy is her small teddy which she has to have when she goes to sleep or else she keeps sleeptalking and calling out for her teddy
9. Her 1st day in Nursery was eventful, once she was back home, she kept calling out "Baby Baby Baby" all the time, even in her sleep...

10. and the best of all....she now knows to knock so if she knows I m on the other side of the door she goes rolling her fist, turning them around and knock knock knock and mummmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaa ....

NoT sO nOrMaL dAy

~Today~

Reached work at 8:30am, woooohhhhhh thats early for me, but NORMAL

I sat myself, logged on my PC, checked my mails, got my meeting requests in place >>NORMAL

Loads of people around me, talking about Football and what they did during the weekend, gals giggling well other gals...NOT me >>NORMAL

I again put my HEAD down, ignored the existence of any conversation/s or anyone for that matter and continued with my work >>NORMAL (for today and may be for couple of more days...)

the day then just paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassed >>NORMAL

and then finally the clock ticked 4:55pm (thank God 4 that!!!) and slipped off my Formal Shoes, put on my NIKE...said my GoodByes and jogged towards the train Stations >>NORMAL

Caught up with Hans in the train and exchanged some "I told you so..." Stories about our husbands >>Exciting but NORMAL

Reached home but just before unlocking the main door, I paused in the corridor >>NORMAL

Sound of the keys and unlocking of door is a massive cue for Mu, she comes running with her small steps and sometimes I feel she almost glides and then makes this loud shrill followed by her cute giggles and calls out to me MmmmUuuuuuuuuMMmmAaaaaa >> NORMAL

I gather her in my arms, we do this quick dance number, laugh and then Mummu goes about doing her things ...like runs back towards the TV and if there is a song playing she starts dancing...cute steps...>> NORMAL

I look at the living room its a mess...you can find everything on the floor...breakfast, lunch, snacks, vegetables, onions, water, dusters lying in the centre of the room...all the kitchen drawers open and the contents spilling out...>> NORMAL

Noisy place thats how my home is...a Place where slipping and tripping are quite likely if you don't watch out for the smallest of small and biggest of big toys and ofcourse the water>> VERY NORMAL

I unlock the door and wait for couple of minutes >> NORMAL

I still waaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt....No noise No movement...

I stare at the EMPTY house...even the floor is clear and clean...my Su and Mummu have gone to India for couple of dayz...and have left behind such a QqqqqqqqqqUIET and clean place >> so DAMN abnormal...