You are my Sun; You are my Moon

My Son, you have brought the perfect relationship in my life. Life with you is tough, the constant energy and enthusiasm can be draining, lack of sleep can be frustrating, constant talking can be mind numbing. In those sleepless nights when you come close to me and touch my belly  gently with your tiny soft hands, your fingertips brushing my skin, in your sleep you know where exactly you want to be and how much you seek to touch your mommy for reassurance is exactly what I am ready to give away my sleep for. Who doesn't want someone to touch and feel, get reassured and feel loved and safe? I know you want that and you constantly seek that. You are an independent being but I love this,that even if you wander off in your own world, every now and then you come back to me to touch base. You come to me, hold me, hug me, lie down on my tummy and kiss me with that delightful smile. I love it that you don't shy away from showing how much you love me and how much you want me around you! No matter what you do I will love you always, and I will always say that you are the perfect and my ideal relationship happened to me ever! You give me hardships but your constant expression of love for me is something that makes my heart glee. You are the one who constantly tells me that "you love me", you are the one who touches me often, keeps coming back to me after your excursions, in the night you keep seeking me, you touch me with reverence and that love that I can see only in your eyes. I see you light up when you come close to me and hold me tight. A whisper of "ouch" from me and you come running to check out on Mommy. What else do I want? Nothing but your love that, you are more than happy to show me... It is not hiding for me to guess what you feel for me... You are transparent, you are innocent, you are honest, you are cute and you love me... You are my perfect relationship... You are my perfect love, My Son... And I love you and will  always love you, even when you will start feeling uncomfortable being kissed and hugged from your mom in public and will start feeling shy telling me that you love me, and will stop spontaneously reaching out to touch me. I love what I have now with you and will always cherish our courtship for lifetime.           I love you son!

The infamous Ambulance ride...

Like most of the boys, my little one has always been too fascinated with Cars and Balls. He enjoys his car rides, is always excited about bus and train rides. We have always shared his excitement while riding these transportation mediums. So my boy was super excited about his upcoming aeroplane ride during our visit to India. He enjoyed his aeroplane trip and ran around abundantly at the airports oblivious to the fact that his parents were dead tired. Now that the wish had been fulfilled, the next wish turned out to be the ambulance ride! So how does his mommy tell him that he isn't supposed to ride it ever? I told him only a big ' owee' (our word for sickness or injury) can get someone on the ambulance... And he looked amused. Anyway very soon around his 18 months birthday my little boy got sick and had high fever. He would get rigors  during the fever phase. In between when he felt better he talked  about cars and all. He kept mentioning ambulance and wanted to see an ambulance. One night fever shot up to 107 degree Fahrenheit and he got chills and rigors. His eyes were rolling he was a bit too quiet and confused. In panic we called the Ambulance and the paramedics gave a dramatic entry. My son's super heroes in their shining armours were there in our living space and my little boy had suddenly dropped his body temperature to normal! We told him about paramedics and their was an instant friendship with the attending paramedic (rare at that age for him). un the below freezing night of December my son was moved in the ambulance. Instead of being  scared of the strangers and freezing cold, he was excited and curious. In the ambulance his tiny body was buckled up in that huge ambulance gurney. He normally resisted being buckled up but this was a dream come true for him. I saw his tiny, thin body in this gurney and neck straight up, head high with curiosity and happiness of being in the ambulance. He was checking out on traffic signals on the way and was even talking to the paramedic. From ambulance to hospital he agreed to go in paramedic's arms and some  how also got him to commit for an aeroplane ride (now that he had ambulance ride) my son was under this impression that his super hero paramedic was going to take  him to all the possible rides and was very upset when the paramedic left my him with us without the promised aeroplane ride.I was,to start with very stressed up and felt bad for my son, but then seeing his dropped fever and excitement I had to literally hide my giggles, thinking about  my Son's wish fulfillment. I actually shared his excitement and secretly was happy to see him happy about his ambulance ride. I was grateful that he didn't need his dream ride for some real serious issue. Yes, I had to hide my pleasure to see my tiny toddler's excitement for the reason that it would look odd that a mother was smiling for her Kid's ambulance ride and can be misconstrued. But I knew then that this mother and son are in for quiet a few fun rides in this life and may be my little Hero's mommy is not that mommy types and may end up being a bit adventurous with her Son. So my son, you have so many rides to take in life and be sure that I will be with you for those till you want me to be there. And I seriously wish they are all happy rides, though can't deny the fact that life isn't about all pleasant rides my son!