“When I’m stuck with a day, that’s grey…”
“Nooo, don’t sing it like that”
“How does it go?”
“Subeeda-day, that’s grey…”
“Subeeda-day?”
“Yes, subeeda-day”
“Ok then.”
All is quiet in the Rana household tonight. It has now hit 9 and Sofia is in bed, fast asleep, a full hour before her normal bedtime. Mondays and Wednesdays are like this now. Those are the days Sofia has school and has no nap. She has been loving school. I was afraid she would cry and beg me not to leave, which would make me cry and beg her not to go. But that is not the case. She is a little apprehensive when we drop her off but by the time we walk into the classroom she gives a quick kiss goodbye, and is off to feed a fake dinner to the baby dolls. It is cute that she gets a little name tag stuck to her back, it is cute that she comes home with paintings to share, it is cute that she talks about other kids in her class and who pushed who and who cried, and it is cute that she runs to me at the end of the day and shouts “Mommy! I told you you’d come back!”. But you wanna know what is really cute? All the songs she sings when she gets home. Hands down.
a.k.a Lakdi Ki Kathi. It gets good around 26 sec.
Where to start. Lately Sofia has been more attentive to what is going on around her. As I said before she not only hears songs but she listens to them. She now will ask what I am singing when I start humming at home. We had a great outing to New Seasons where we were both belting out our favorite Jason Mraz song. She sings constantly, humming her own little tunes and singing along as best as she can. She has gotten back into Charlie Brown Christmas and we have been watching it non-stop. The other night I was cleaning up from dinner and she was singing along with the little Peanuts, trying to hit all the high notes. Ridiculously cute.
We finally had a nice day today. We had a couple of sun breaks this weekend and whenever the rain stopped the kids would rush outside, whipe off the slide, then dart back in again when the rain started again. Today there was no rushing and no darting. Ajay joined us on a walk and we stopped by Rite Aid for some supplies. That place is so full of everything and anything you don’t really need but we managed to make it out with just the essentials… and a box of new sidewalk chalk. Daddy went to work but Sofia and I sat outside and did some drawing on the back patio. Here is some of our artwork. Bonus points if you can spot the elephant.