Thank you SONY

Anna turns two on 11 October. I was just going through our album from day one of her life with us. She was tiny, all of just 3.5 kilos. So dependent on me. And now she is independent as far as freedom means to a two year old.

She walks. Talks. Calls me buddhu (must thank Sony for teaching her that!) and then corrects that to Amma. I like the way she picks out a book for Ria, who loves to read lying on the sofa; and  picks out one for herself too and cuddles up with Ri.

Centre-Point, Bahrain (May, 2009)

I've kept all her glossy, washable numbers and pictures books right where she can reach them. And bless her soul, she keeps them back neatly (Not always though!) after she has had enough imitating Ri.

Ri is oblivious to everything around her once she gets a book. She even forgets that the small one is near her. There were several near misses, when either I or Sony end up yelling and Ri startles out of her trance. I guess all of us were like that when we were kids.

We get used to multi-tasking and multi-thinking much much later. Not until we are in the teens, at least,  I guess. In any case I can't force Ri to be looking after her sis as well as enjoy her book at the same time. That's quite sinful of me. Come to think of it, how cruel of me to delegate my task of baby sitting on a poor soul who would rather be running after butterflies in the garden, but has been forced to be indoors because the mosquitoes would make a meal of her!

When Ri was two, I didn't think time would fly so soon and that she would laze in a couch like I do with a book and some pop corns. Anna turns two, in another fortnight. And zoom... time would fly again ... Weekends fly the fastest!!

I have fewer pictures of Ri than Anna, as I didn't have a sporty cell phone or digital camera to cache them into our digital albums. Thanks to the techy gadgets and my wee bit of training in online editing, I have my enviable collection of our memories just as Sony has his collection of stamps and currencies. He teaches them world history with those relics, while I poke fun at ourselves in the ridiculous shots I have crystallised forever with the camera Sudhi and Rema gifted us from Kuwait a few years back.

I've been clicking Anna's pics from day one in 2008. Every now and then is what I actually mean, as I'm so obsessed with capturing these moments that would never come back to me again. It's such fun looking back at them. Ri and I browse through the day's pics almost every night. The funny faces and the places.

Added here's one of us three that we took a while ago at a Lifestyle shop in Bahrain.

For these beautiful moments and many many others....
Thank you so much SONY (I meant the camera!)