Baby Rhea is changing the rules of the game

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Baby Rhea is changing the rules of the game

11 October 2007 17 views 4 Comments

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Now that Rhea (our baby) is seven months old, our rules don’t apply in the house. For example, Rekha and I had decided that the TV Remote won’t be used in any activity that involves saliva or urine. But now that our daughter has decided to take her own decisions…she alternates between giving a saliva bath or a urine bath to the TV Remote. So much so, yesterday we bought some surgical gloves to wear while changing the TV channels.

Rekha and I had also decided that we won’t be touching the marble floors ourselves and a maid would wipe it clean with water and Dettol every day. Now-a-days, this decision of ours is also not honored and our daughter of 7-months has taken the issue into her own hands – she licks them sparkling clean. Point to self – ask the landlord why he used the round marbles people play with…instead of the white, flat ones…one gets from Rajasthan!

As if that wasn’t enough…our decision that we wouldn’t touch the ants when alone has also been thrown out of the window. We had taken this decision on the day of our marriage when Rekha and I were alone, and an army of ants attacked us. We would later find out that the ants had been living under my bed-sheet for years…and they didn’t like Rekha moving in with me.

As I was saying, our daughter broke that rule as well and has now started diverting the ant traffic or scaring the shit out of them. I even heard one of the ants say something even as he (or she?) ran away towards the shelter…when translated from ant-ese to English it roughly meant: “Oh shucks! Run and save your lives….she is a giant!”

Will keep you updated on the rules Rhea keeps changing…till then, bless us!