Shriya's turning 4 on the 29th of October!
As the second born, we wanted her to be the baby, wanted her to lisp, wanted her to grow up slowly. But our little girl was never really a baby ever.And maybe because she's always had her older brother to look up to and ape, she's been in quite a tearing hurry to grow up. Its only when we look back at pictures and compare her with little ones who are 2 and 3 now, do we realize that she has always been way too put-together, very mature and super talkative.
Shriya coolly skipped the baby books and enjoyed listening to the Arthur series and Berenstain bears series which I would read to her brother. Sometimes guiltily, I would pick a baby book (Spot series etc) and read to her and all she would say was "easy, peasy, lemon squeezy book nana"! If her brother watched Barney at 3, Shriya at 3, watched Little Einsteins and Garfield since her brother had already moved on. The other day I had a Barney craving( never thought that day would come) and wanted to hear some of the familiar songs. Both my imps chorused "baaaaaby stuff"! They choose similar books, watch similar shows, play with a common set of friends and entertain each other oh so beautifully when I'm not with them.
At two, she sang her way to our hearts- in Tamil, English, Mandarin and even one in Malay! At three she was telling everybody what to do and what not to do (especially her older brother)- who once told her "Shriya, please remember that YOU are NOT my mother". At four what will she do?
Oh, she has it all planned out. "When I'm 4, I want to go to ballet class and karate class and have my first sleepover (god save me!), learn multi- lip-lication like anna, buy a pink watch and my own bottle of purple nail polish with my own money"!
My little girl, you've added tons and tons of joy to our lives. Hope you have a blast at your birthday picnic. Enjoy every minute of this year.....make the most of 4!
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