Profound Truths from a Two and A Half Year Old

Yesterday we were having a ball of a time playing make believe with her soft toys.
She led them through a lesson in class, learning rhymes and the alphabets, took them to the gym and taught them to do somersaults, let them swim (back stroke and free style) in the pond, bond together in a float in a swimming pool, read a book each, lying down at the beach and so much more. It was a fun-filled packed day for the animal toys.
I commented to her, "These animals are very lucky to be taken care of by you. "She replied - "I am very lucky" - I asked her why and she said "because I can take care of them!"

Wow!
Yes indeed. We are indeed blessed to be able to care for others.
Such truths from a toddler - my personal pint sized blessing who's growing growing growing!

My Articulate Toddler

Where do I begin! I am so very proud of her linguistic abilities you know.

She has this way of using the 'falling' instead of 'fall' or 'fell' down.
E.g. she would say, most ungramatically, "Oh I falling down" or something like that. I've been trying to correct her in vain and yesterday she articulated why exactly she was resisting being corrected. She said
"I like falling aatha" then she realized it didn't sound right and corrected herself thus:
"I I like the word 'falling', aatha"

my my my! it's like poetic licence - where poets are deliberately ungrammatical for the sake of beauty and rythm. While we may not concur that 'falling' sounds better than 'fall', who can refute that for her, it sounds more melodic?

and then, she was chatting with her father on the phone and then suddenly said "Ok Bye". The hubby was taken aback as he was far from finished - he can hold fairly long conversations with her. so he asked her 'Why Bye?" and she says, cool as anything, "I'm done talking with you!" hahahhahahahaah.
she doesn't mean it rudely of course - just matter of factly.
Today morning she told her grandfather "why are you getting frustrated?"
I love it - she picks up everything so quickly and is able to use it in the right context. my little genius! hehehe.

I'll give you a hug

My daughter is so sweet. The other day, I was having one of those moody days and I started crying, thinking that all my plans for beautifying my daughter's room were never coming to fruition. My daughter saw me crying and asked "Why are you crying Aatha? Don't cry. Let's pray. Come I'll give you a hug" and she hugged me three times at least!

amazing. she is just amazing. I love her so much