Apple Speak....

I can’t help but marvel at the confidence my little one has. At two and a half, she’s sure she knows better than her mommy does.

Mommy: (pointing to a picture of a triangle) What’s that shape?
Apple: That’s a rectangle.
Mommy: No honey that’s a triangle.
Apple: No, it’s a rectangle.
Mommy: No honey (pointing to a rectangle)…that is a rectangle…this is a triangle.
Apple: Mommy, this is a rectangle…O O O…K KK? (A huge emphasis on OK)
Now I need to learn my basics from my little one!

Whenever she’s outdoors Apple wants to pick up something or the other…a stone,a stick, other junk. Sometimes to deter her from picking up junk, I’ll tell her that it has bugs on it, since she’s scared of bugs. The other day, I wanted to take her for a walk, so I took out the stroller. Now instead of siting in it she wanted to push it. I refused and said that I was gonna push it. To that she says. “Mommy don’t touch the stroller,it has bugs, bugs bite mommy!” Yeah right!

The other day when I was putting away her toys and she dint want me to, she said, “ no touching my stuff mommy”. When I ignored it and continued cleaning up,she said, “What did I just tell you mommy? No touching my stuff!”... hmm...anything I say can be used against me (especially by my own little baby!)

Oh and now I can store my shopping list in her head. If I mention to her that we need to buy something from the grocery store, she will remind me of that whenever we are in a store or whenever she sees a store. Of course she’s already trying to use it for her own benefit. On our way home from her daycare there’s a Walgreen’s pharmacy, sometimes when I’m out of milk or something like that and I don’t have the time to go to the grocery store, Apple and I stop there on our way home. She likes it because then she can pull things off the shelf and can try to pressure me into buying something that she wants. Sometimes, but not always she manages to get a piece of candy, a small toy etc. The other day, we were driving past the store and she started
pointing to it and saying, “ I want to go to the shop”.
“We don’t need to go to the shop”
“Yes we need … we need milk”
“We have milk at home honey”
“Mommy, milk finish at home, we get it from the shop”
Yeah, nice try!

I’m being outsmarted by a toddler! Outsmarting me is not that difficult...any normal person can do it..... but such a little person doing that?I shudder to think of what will happen when she’s a teenager and I’m getting older, weaker and more forgetful.
Any smart pills out there that I can use?

On blogging and half a facial!

I am an introvert. I have always found it very difficult to express my thoughts and opinions to people I don’t know. Before I started blogging, I used to wonder if blogging anonymously would help me open up. After all, I wanted to communicate with all you wonderful people whose blogs I read regularly. It took me a long time to get on the blogosphere and I still can’t get myself to talk about serious issues like this or this, though I have progressed from keeping my opinions to myself to at least expressing them mildly in comments to other people’s posts. Hopefully someday, I’ll be able to write about what matters. Until then it will be about other “important things” like this one….

“Is this Mrs. T?” asked the lady on the other end of the phone.
“Yes.”
“Mrs. T, I am glad to inform you that you have won a free facial and a gift certificate for some free products from our company. Would you like to schedule it now?”
A free facial! Vow! How did I get so lucky? Now I have never won anything unless you count a single company coaster that I won in a drawing at the last division meeting. So for a minute I was excited. Then I remembered that sometime around mother’s day this company’s rep and made us fill out our names and addresses at my daughter’s day care. I knew that this was a sales gimmick but I’m a sucker for free stuff. So I scheduled an appointment and then rescheduled it and so on until the lady finally came home yesterday. I work from home once a week and I use my lunch hour that day for errands, blogging etc. Yesterday, I decided that I’d drop the errands, ignore your blogs and allow myself to be pampered instead.

The lady showed up fifteen minutes late, then blamed it on traffic. Yeah Right! I know how crazy the traffic can get on a Wednesday afternoon in a purely residential area, especially with schools out. Anyway, she decided that we would sit at the breakfast table and pulled out a plastic tray from her bag. She took a drop (literally!) each of a cleanser, a moisturizer, a toner and a couple of other things and put them on the tray. She then told me to go ahead and apply the products to only the right side of my face.
“Why just one side?”
“Because I want to show you the difference it makes”
Ok. I thought. First we’ll apply it to one side and then to the other.
After applying all the products step by step to the right side of my face, she handed me a mirror.
“Do you see any difference?”
I was squinting my eyes hard trying to search for any difference.
Sensing that she may not get the answer that she was looking for, she immediately said,
“See I can see this side looks brighter. Don’t you agree?”
Being a pushover that I am (which the lady had shrewdly observed ) I nodded.
“Ok now, I’ll show you some hand products”
“What about the other side? Can I apply the remaining products (read the other half a drop of each product) on the left hand side of my face?”
She just smiled and said, “ May be you can apply the moisturizer”
Would it have killed her to let me use the remaining products on the tray, especially since she had promised a free facial and this is nowhere close to a facial? She should have just called it product sampling or half a product sampling. Needless to say she did not get any business from me.

Anyway, if you are in the Atlanta area and if you run into a (young)woman with right side of her face looking brighter than the left side, come say hello to Naina.