Day 6: Photo a day: Who needs friends, when you have cousins?
A very big and happy part of my childhood memories is occupied by summer holidays at Pune with my cousins, ranging from ages 15 to 5.
Bright summer days, cool evenings, pepsicola (Popsicle), vada pav, "fun time" on the terrace, galli cricket, movies, music, fights and meals. The lovely summer holidays were made memorable not because of the place or the weather but because it meant long stays with my cousins.
Cousins who could understand the joy of ringing the door bells of the flats and running away, cousins who could understand the exhilaration of jumping down cupboards on to mattresses, the fright of the neighbor finding you while you are scouring through their well kept garden for your cricket ball, the jubilation of making music on steel utensils in the afternoon.
I used to always wonder how it would be to stay in the same city as my cousins all year round, what joy!
With our recent shift to Aurangabad, i am sure A will enjoy her summers in Pune with her cousins. However, she gets also will know how it is to have a cousin in the same city.
I was expecting a whole lot of attention seeking behavior from her when the new baby arrived, but she has been absolutely fabulous - intrigued by the baby, willing to help out in whatever way she can, mostly by staying out of the way.
She is happy she has her own little baby brother. Whew!
Bright summer days, cool evenings, pepsicola (Popsicle), vada pav, "fun time" on the terrace, galli cricket, movies, music, fights and meals. The lovely summer holidays were made memorable not because of the place or the weather but because it meant long stays with my cousins.
Cousins who could understand the joy of ringing the door bells of the flats and running away, cousins who could understand the exhilaration of jumping down cupboards on to mattresses, the fright of the neighbor finding you while you are scouring through their well kept garden for your cricket ball, the jubilation of making music on steel utensils in the afternoon.
I used to always wonder how it would be to stay in the same city as my cousins all year round, what joy!
With our recent shift to Aurangabad, i am sure A will enjoy her summers in Pune with her cousins. However, she gets also will know how it is to have a cousin in the same city.
I was expecting a whole lot of attention seeking behavior from her when the new baby arrived, but she has been absolutely fabulous - intrigued by the baby, willing to help out in whatever way she can, mostly by staying out of the way.
She is happy she has her own little baby brother. Whew!
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