2.5 yrs is a time when there is an avlanche of words everyday in your toddlers life.
Every parent will definitely agree with me.

So today, the word was "Cute".

So Misha comes to me and close to my face and says "Mummy cute".

I was pretty impressed by this. Then, I said "Misha cute" .

That started the list!

Papa cute
Tata (grandpa) cute
Pati ( grandma) cute
Ajja (grandpa) cute
Ajji (grandma) cute

Misha has a great grandmother who is 85 yrs old. She addresses her as "Big Pati".

Misha's list is incomplete without her. :0)

She tells me  "Big Pati" "Big Cute".

For the last 2 weeks, my little devil has been chanting only one name
and that is "Oliver"!

Oliver this, Oliver that, where is Oliver ....

After 2 weeks of listening to this constant chanting, i had enough of it.

This morning when we were driving towards her nursery and she started -
"Where is Oliver?"

I then, just told her, "Misha, enough of Oliver."

Back came the reply ---" Rosy?" with a smile on her face.

I said "enough of Rosy."

Misha said ---"Nabila?"

I said the same. "enough of Nabila."

The list goes on with all her friends names, one by one. And my replies was the same througout that list.

Finally, my devil asks me with a cheeky smile on her face, --- "Misha?"

I was stunned and pleasantly surprised at the same time by her cheekiness & intelligence.

I told her --- "I want Misha. more misha."

And she let out a squeal of laughter hearing that!

Misha will be 2.5 yrs in two months. Ofcourse she is talking non stop now.

This is the stage where she is into her friends and my devil knows everybody's names in her nursery!

yeah, she says bye bye every evening to each and everyone in her group, taking each ones name! . :0)

And it is an ordeal for her to tell me all her friends names everyday. I have to just ask her who are her friends and immediately she starts off her list!

she goes something like this --- looking up in the air after every name to let me know that she is thinking hard to remember the list! (Bless her. )

Rosy, Lily, Alexia, Alexsis,

Ufuf,  

Big Mafew, Elena,

Ella Bella, 

Ding Dong Bell,

Lip Lip!

wow, what names. I tried to figure out what are the actual names and trust me, it was a mighty task for me!

And can you gues what those names actually are? here it goes!

Ufuf is actually Yusuf,

 Big Mafew is actually Big Mathew.

Ella Bella is Ella.

Ding Dong Bell is acutally Isabell.

Lip Lip is Philip!

:0)

Our little angel can become a devil in no time and just not agree with anything we say.

when it comes to drinking water, it is an uphill task to get her to drink her daily quota of water.

hence we have found a way of getting her to drink water which will make it interesting.

so, each time we want her to drink water, we give her glass of water and take one ourselves and say cheers for every sip. we clink our glasses and take a sip. so, that is way we get her to drink water.

now our intelligent Misha has extended this habit to many other things. each morning when Misha and I brush our teeth, she says Cheers and touch her brush with mine.

and that is not all, she has her own laptop and some evenings when we both sit next to each other to work on our laptops, she touches her laptop with mine and says Cheers mummy!

this is a very interesting behaviour i have noticed since she knows she has to say cheers for the similar stuff.

she would never say cheers with her brush to a laptop or glass to the laptop.

we dont teach all these. but then, kids just learn it.

Being born and brought up in England, our little devil is very much trained in Sorrys and Thank yous.

She says thank you everytime we give her something. even if it is 10 times in less than a minute.

Same goes with sorry. Whether she hits someone by mistake or we touch her by mistake. She will always say sorry.

one evening, she came running from one side of the room to the other side to give her mom a hug. on the way, she hit the hot box with chapatis.

immediately, she turns around looks at the hot box and says " Sorry chapati" ! :0)

This is a small episode on innonece of kids, which is just amazing.

We were all ready to go out when her father got out to put some coolant in the car. He got the coolant container and opened the bonnet to pour it in. All this while, Misha was watching this with great concentration. When I asked her what was happening, my little devil says "Papa giving milk to car, horlicks". It made my laugh to see  the simplicity of her world, and how innoncent my little devil is, but then one can see her innonence does make a lot of sense too!