A letter to my son on his Fourth birthday
Dear Kiddo,
Today you turn four. FOUR!! I’m sure it’s the kind of thing
mothers say every year to their growing children, but I just can’t believe how
fast the years have passed! It seems like one minute ago you were standing in
our living room, wearing diapers and trotting around searching for some thing
known only to you! It’s like I think I have been always living with you, since
I was born. It is as if we couldn’t imagine anytime when we were existing
without your presence. Such intense is your presence in our lives that I feel what
I would have missed had I not had you. Now every thought of mine revolves
around you and
every plan I make is keeping you in total consideration. I still remember that
as a young mother, so naïve at singing lullabies I used to make up my own and
sing for you while rocking you to sleep
and you used to stare at me( with a doubtful expression) when I went on
singing my own made up lullabies. And then I blinked and there you are total FOUR!
I still remember how freaked out I was to hold you in my
arms, that I kept away from taking you in my hands for almost one whole day
just to keep my little bundle from any harm due to my mishandling. Now I guess I have the
confidence of running your play school too!!
You have started having conversations with me and I honestly
feel as if I am in the presence of a peer!! Such incredible memory you have
that I sometimes have these guilt pangs which question me if I am wasting away
the time of a genius in the making! May be I need to hook you up to some sport
or craft where your skills are not wasted away!
Your school days have really taken off this year and a few
weeks back you have subsequently discovered your new love (or addiction) for
playing games on the computer and the mobile. Your love for Ben 10 has only
grown in leaps and bounds and gotten so much on you that you have made me mug
up the names of all the aliens! I always used to think Cartoon shows meant only
Tom and Jerry but then you changed my
whole view and now I am very well versed with every dialogue the cartoon
characters say by twisting their mouth in 100 different ways. I realize that
you have a heart of gold when you wanted me to feed the cats hovering around
our house rather than feeding you the
milk and setting curd, which is your all time favorite.I was almost in tears
when you said to your papa that “mama loves this song, please don’t
change” when a song from Aashiquie 2 was
being played on TV! I couldn’t have asked for a better baby!!!
Today you are 4 and I know in 10 years you will be 14 and I
will feel like I just blinked again and POOF! You are grown!! But please know
this my son, of all the things I hold dear, more than anything I possess, I
treasure these small moments that turn into days that turn into years and
ultimately memories. They are my treasures and I am so thankful that you were
added to our lives.
Happy Birthday!
Mamma
