listening to one particular song last night, i told tintin "see what you hear are lots of violins"...promptly, he said let me show you how to play and pretended as if he were actually playing the violin (i could make out although it was dark)...and then he said he knows what a violin is because he has seen flyn the grasshopper play it in "Maya the bee"...impressive :)

tintin asked for my handset @ cambay grand as we waited for lunch....and i told him "we are here to spend quality time between us" ;) and i hugged hum tight. he responded, as if he understood

took tintin to cambay grand for a pool dip ;) and some lovely noodles. the day was made. it was his saturday treat as promised. in the evening momma and son went furnishing shopping and picked up lovely curtains. tintin picked up a superman cushion and bedsheet. back home, he thanked me for the buys and we slept on them last night only to wake up smiling this morning. i have never seen him smiling like that in the mornings soon after he wakes up. it was amazing, he woke me up nice and hugged me tight. mooah
today, he spent his morning downstairs drawing figurines with chalk with his pals....

today was tintin's maths test...must have done well am sure. thanks to baba, he understood the concept of greater than pretty well and could do all questions right when asked
tomorrow is hindi and drawing.....:)))
have bought a cracker-laden gun for him for diwali. he was after me to get it for him since last night when he saw kavisha with one....so momma has got him one. mooah
love the way he hugs me when we hit the bed. he insists that either of us MUST be over the another :) cute cute supah cute

he asked me this morning if eating healthy food will give him muscles.....

so i told him that egg will fatafat develop into muscles ... it will travel straight to his arms and give him dole-sholes and for the first time i saw him gobbling a boiled egg so happily....

 

he did his english test today. tomorrow is maths .... was home to help him study  and revise

tintin told me last night: since u go to work everyday, you must have earned enough to buy me toys!!!!

i am so worked up with so much happening at work, i dnt realise that tintin;s exams were to begin from tuesday and not monday as i thought......phew phew.....i love him...he is loving the fact that my kinetic has been repaired and we go out for a stroll or at ish's place almost every evening after i am home.....mooah

tintin's exams begins monday. he will have four papers---maths, english, hindi, gk/conversation....phew

every morning he gets up and asks me which season is this and when is winter due. he is soo excited about ish's baby that he wants santa to come early with the baby (he expects a gift too from the baby!!!)

last night, he finished his homework well in time but just as i told him that we gotta retired to bed, he raised his hand in the air (as if disapproving)...before he realised it, he got hit by me on his back...minutes later, i could see the imprint of my palm and fingers on his back :(  although i let him realise his mistake, i did apologise to him for being hard on him. love him

he has begun enjoying apples btw. :) yet another milestone

tintin missed his school on dusshera....was soo tired playing till 2 am that he could hardly get up...that said, he went school yesterday just to come back with five heavy books and homeworks :( ... last night he had visitors..sagnik came with his mom-dad and tintin had a blast... today was his off owing to bakri idd....he spent two hours in the morning finishing his homework....was out at ojas' the whole day. is back home now. mooah

WE were together since the evening of saptami till this noon (navami)....went around the pandals, enjoyed puja thoroughly...i would pick up his friends once a while and we would go and check out the goddesses ... tintin however, could not have the bhog as it was too spicy for him.....so would come back home and have toast with loads of butter and coconut water :)
this afternoon, he would not let me come to work and kept saying "durga thakur, maa ke office e jete dio na!!!" he held on to a puja programme schedule with a pic of durga as he said that... i love him a LOT and miss him as much but told him unless i work, who would get him toys, clothes, or pay the ac bills and petrol bills and he smiled :) mooah

last evening as i tried to get tintin upstairs after his garba, he almost threw tantrums and kicked his shoes! i would have slapped him but dnt and left. he followed, crying out loud...back home, i asked him if he was sorry for what he did....once he said no and then said yes....once he realised what the questions was!!!
he also narrated two stories to me while sleeping :) one was about lightening mcqueen and another on alladin! he narrated them in bangla, just the way i do! amazing!
today he went to school dressed up in kurta-jeans and stole :) must have enjoyed garba there
he has gone to rinku's birthday party....a gal who turns 3 today....

tintin asked me this morning how he went inside my stomach

i said through my nose

he said aha

i was this small then (did a dot like thing using his fingers)

i said yes

then i became big and grew hands and legs?

i said yeah

so he was like i wonder how ishi auntie's baby wold look like

i said just like u

to that he made a big weird face ;)

tintin accompanied me to his school on saturday morning for open house. the one-hour session involving him being grilled by his teachers in maths, english, hindi, gk, story telling, et al. tintin did WELL> his report card was full of As. His class teacher Nancy was full of praises. thankfully, she understands that he is imaginative and draws diff pics against alphabets not necessarily taught by her @ school. she said he has become naughty though :) i have no complaints about that...she said once tintin apparently complained about me, saying he once told her that i am very liberal with Taran, a neighbourhood boy, who bashes him up...tintin apparently felt that i never rebuked him for being nasty. "my mumma does not love me" is what he apparently told her! that was quite a shock for me....anyways, I have been careful since. I told tintin that he need not expect me to intervene and instead, tell those who bully him that he would report to their moms if they misbehave. that has worked ;) we are team after all
btw, the book that i wrote on tintin "the boy who taught his mum" has been approved by one of the UK publishers. they have asked for the full manuscript, which i submitted on saturday. fingers crossed. happy. very very happy. for US

tintin spent last evening at ishi's place with his aunt and uncle....called me once or twice to leave office early :) later in the evening, he was delighted to have me there although the desktop and thomas engine kept him busy...however, once we were in the car about to leave, he looked at me and said: "Maa, tumi bhalo dekhte lagcho!" i said thanks and asked him what he meant by that. so he replied: "You look beautiful" :) and blushed :) mooah to him