Sleep – and how to go about that !!!

Dear Guddams:

There are ways of going to sleep … and there are ways of putting you to sleep … and the twain never meet.

It all started when you were a month old – you would sleep only at your will, only after 05:00 AM, only after feeding etc. etc.

Then you got tired of this and wanted to get some excitement – so you would sleep only on the shoulder and after some 500 sit-ups … mamma, naanu and pappa have got trim thanks to you …

Then came the next phase – lap rock … we had to shake our lap enough to strengthen the thigh muscles – and then you would sleep with the rocking …

Just when that seemed to be settling in, came the nursing-to-sleep phase. You would sleep at night lying down and nursing with mamma lying next to you. Of course, this was for night time sleeping with mamma. With pappa, it was in the form of holding in the hands, swinging around and listening to “So gaya yeh jahaan” belting out.

And now you are in a mixed phase. Sometimes, you sleep when pappa narrates a story to you. Sometimes, when you are lap rocked, and sometimes with situps … sometimes with a song and sometimes with a nursery rhyme. And sometimes, the good old nursing … no guarantee which will work and when. That is the suspense … Of course, you have once surprised mamma pappa by sleeping ON YOUR OWN!!!!! That was in a movie hall, while watching Rang De Basanti …

Any which way you go to sleep, you look hazzaaar cute when asleep …Love you, guddams …
Looking forward to more adventures on your daily trips to and fro dreamland …

Pappa