The most tedious tasks of any given day is Akshara's meal times. I will not brand her as a fussy eater, however, she is not a very "willing" eater either. Regular Fairy Tales do not work any more...it has to be a BIG monkey or BIG crow or a BIG some animal that catches her attention.
During one such meal time,I called out for her and said "Aksha, please come and take a mouth-full and then you can go". The moment she heard the word "full" she froze, saying "amma, no mouth-full amma".
I said "Ok, take a mouth-half then" and she said "Ok, gimme mouth-half". She happily ate the same spoonful of mouth-ful rice!!
She cannot pronounce "Laurel" to save her life. Akshara has now mastered operating the DVD player. She has some favourites in the CD which have to "paused". When the scene is approaching, she'll go close to the DVD player and stand there and then press the "pause/play" button, stand back, admire the clippping and press "play" again.
