Kabir turned ONE yesterday, 20th of July 2008! A long and meandering post about his 12 months of existence is to be done. But right now I am too tired from the hatke celebrations we had and too sleepy to do justice to this miracle in our life! :)
Belated Happy Birthday you l'il big boy! Just seeing you grow the way you are makes life so totally worth it! Rock On!
Every kid has his/her Cute Factor! For Cubby apart from his 440watts smile, it has been his very unruly and curly mop of hair! :) I love them too, his soft brown curls! They make him look adorable and baby like!
But his hair that looked liked Albert Einstein who is on permanent diet of Center Shock was really getting wilder by the day. Add to that the fact that he feels really hot, a head full of hair that gets all sweaty and wet really doesn't help.
There was a mundan in the offing, but somehow it never happened. I had no intention of making Cubby wear a pony tail 'coz the mundan if not before he turns one, can happen only after he completes two! Sigh!
So his daadi mentioned that Thursday was a good day and that we should at least snip off bit of his hair and keep it in front of god and then she will offer at Balaji temple in Pune later. Whatever the logic! :)
Wondering if we should take him to a salon since I really don't trust ourselves with scissors. Plus Cubby is so much more wriggly now and the chances they we might hurt him made it even more difficult.
Nonetheless, we decided to give it a shot! M wet his hair totally. We made him sit on the newspaper and started on the mission. I combed his hair trying to match the actions of apna regular hairdresser! :p But then i had to give Cubby the comb to keep him distarcted with something he hadn't played with before.
I "expertly" took some of his hair between by fingers and went Snip! Snip! Snip! Cubby was bit surprised to see me putting his hair on the newspaper, but he thankfully didn't worry too much about it and let me go on and about the job while playing with the comb. I am sure he was wondering "My crazy parents doing one more stupid thing. Let them be!"
Then Daddy dearest got bored of being the assistant who was distracting the child when kangha failed! "Even I want to cut!" demanded M. Roles reversed till he got to cut a few locks 'coz Mommy dearest isn't well versed in the art of distraction the way papa is!
Snip! Snip! Snip! A little from here and a little from there M kept instructing and I followed the instructions.
Final trimming done and one look at Cubby and we were shocked!!!!!
My l'il baby was replaced with a l'il boy!! The wild, curly mop that made him look like a baby was just gone. He looked so grown up, that we couldn't recognise him as the l'il CubbyR with his mane!
We were quite proud of a job well done, at the same time very sad to see the babyness lost with just a haircut! :( Both of us are wondering even now, if he will regrow curly hair, but I doubt that will happen!
He has even been acting all grown up! I wonder if he understands that he has indeed become a bada baccha and needs to act his age which is now spoken about in years!
So here's presenting the all NEW Kabir! :)
Love ya lots and pots my darling One Year Old! :) With or without those curly locks!
But please to not grow up so quick, OK?!
mmmuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
