A Father’s Diary

I love ice-cream. There was a time when I ate nothing but ice-cream for an entire week. My wife loves ice cream too.

And now it seems like the genes have been transferred to tabi. She is hardly 8 months but she gets excited to see ice-cream as if its her most favorite thing. The way her eyes start shining, the way she starts jumping on her seat, the way she shakes her hands and moves her head forward, it’s just amazing. We have to struggle to make her eat something but for ice-cream it’s opposite. She just wants to eat ice-cream even if we don’t want her to have it. We can only wonder how things will be when she gets a little older.

It is going to be the ice-cream family.

My wife’s friend moved to our neighborhood few days ago. They have two sons 4 and 5 years old. Tabi enjoys playing with them as she is very social and loves it when there are people around her. They had offered us to babysit tabi a few times so we decided to give it a try. We left her at their place and then it was me and my wife, just the two of us together. We went to the mall and had a great time. It seemed like the old days where we were newly married and did not have a care in the world. But we did have a care this time. We had a baby at someone else’s place and we didn’t know what was going on there. So we came back in a couple of hours as we both were scared how tabi would behave without her mama or baba around, plus we didn’t want to overburden the kind babysitters. To our surprise, tabi behaved very well. She didn’t cry at all and did not prove to be a menace. It all went very smooth. The experiment was successful.

Next time we will try leaving her for a slightly longer duration and see what happens.