Celebration!

Celebration !

Three year old celebrates his Grandma's birthday:

Our dear son son, born on 18th August, 2002 is not known to be particularly fond of icecreams. May be the cold sudden shock that he feels when we used to give him some of it in a spoon was not that enjoyable to him.

His Grandma's was birthday today. How old she becomes today? This is something no son in law will ever dare ask and dream of knowing for sure. May be she will turn 68 plus or minus few years. To celbraate, At around 10pm we went out to Naturals, one of the very popular ice cream joint in allover Mumbai. Since Depavali is just about three days away, all the streets and houses are decorated with coloured lights twinkling nonstop. Since we in Mumbai hate to sleep in general and wish to seep in the last drop of energy from life, it was difficult to get a parking even at 10.30pm. However, again as is tradition with us Mumbaites, managed a parking. I love a combination of Anjeer and watermelon in a cup and ordered it. Shrihhan let it be known that he loves mango. So a mango & seethafal combination was ordered for him which was infact decided by his Ma. And as his Ma and Grandma love cone, two cones arrived. Shrihaan immidiately grabed it and Dona, his Ma tried to lick it few times amidst violent protest from Shrihaan. So Dona ordered another cone for herself. Shrihaan went on licking cone and his lips, in random order. He was in between disburbed when the ice cream melted and droped on his hand and pants. However, the overpowering joy he discovered in licking ice cream made him want more and took Dona's cone on with his other hand. Now he went on licking the toww cones alternatively till it was about 75% over when he felt change of venue was in order and may be it will taste different if taken while in car. Off we went to the car and drove around for some more time.

A little disappointment-Dona thought there was a allnight sale (does it happen anywhere in the world?) was happening in Lokhandwala and so we went there but could find not anything unusal happening there. However, all the shops there were wearing a very festive look and the trafic there was at its chaotic best. We came back home around 12.15am.

There are moments which one dont want to let go. As father, one hopes his son will grow up fast yet he again love his toddler too much with all his innocence and wish him to stay that way for a long long time. It was such a moment when I realised our son is growing up from being a toddler to a boy and and it feels marvelous and amazing. Yet, somewhere there is a little sadness in knowing about this trasition happening.

Life is worth living for all such complexities.

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2 Comments:
Shirshendu Mukherjee said...
That's why they say that hold your son's hand as long as you can. Sometimes soon in future he won't allow you to do the same.

Along with your son you also have to grow up as a father. Don't forget this truth of life. Better you accept it gracefully.

2:50 PM
Manish Gangopadhyay said...
Thanks for being patiently reading my rumbling.

I know exactly what you mean and its easier said than done.

Do come back please.

Regards,
Manish

12:18 AM
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