Shaolin and headbutting..

Today once again, Dad remembered head conditioning scenes from various Shaolin movies.

This was after being head butted on his nose, once again.

This sequence goes like this:

• Dad is carrying Nischal.
  
• Dad tries to kiss him.
  
• Nischal turns towards dad and headbutts him on his face.
• Dad lets out a 'ooh', 'aah' or an 'ouch'.
  

The 'my-son-can't-do-anything-wrong' mom thinks it's because Nischal has a big/heavy head, and still can't keep it straight.

Dad thinks he hears phrases like

"Keep away, you unshaven mongrel!",

"Again? Take that !"

"Just keep asking for it, don't you?"

or other kind words from Nischal. Maybe all those headbutts are doing things to Dad's brains.

After he dabs nose, he peers into Nischal's face.. and sees no sign of any hostility. Just a serene smile.

So the next day, he works up his courage, and .. BAM! - the sequence repeats.

Given the frequency of visits, the doctor thinks dad is just ashamed to admit being beaten by his wife. Dad prefers him thinking that way.

Meanwhile dad now has theories about Nischal's previous life. He keeps measuring Nischal's head, checks the shape, the damage to his own nose, and googles for images of past Shaolin monks' heads.

Early morning code review..

Nischal wakes up early - around 5-6 am - for his milk.
Dad feeds him, and puts him to sleep by rocking him.

Some music also helps - played on dad's laptop.

So he stares at the screen as though the java code there is actually the music.

Dad - the typical geek - is already fantasizing that his son might start seeing music in code.
Nischal, probably is thinking - 'Smile about the music, or frown at the messy code - what should I do ?' *Sigh*
'Maybe I'll just mess myself instead, give dad a taste of his own medicine..'

April 2009 - Nischal talking to his mom

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Sympathetic balding?

Nischal's dad has a very valid reason for putting on weight - or so he says.  'Sympathetic pregnancy' - is the term he uses, and points out that most weight he has gained has been during the two pregnancies of his sons.  While his wife lost weight religiously after delivery and is back to being trim, he lovingly rubs his belly like he's still planning on delivering it sometime.  New years & resolutions have whizzed past, but there's another new year always round the corner, eh? Another dimension to Dad's aging process is his rapidly declining hair. His pate is emptying at the top. Unlike the bulk, that is something he's definitely losing hair about.   Nischal - despite his busy schedule of chugging milk, pooping & sleeping - seems to have noticed this and has decided to lend an empathetic hand here.  Now he also is rapidly losing the already scant hair he had.. resulting in a rather empty dome worse than his dad.  If thats not a true father-son bond, what is?

From 2009-02-06 - 2009-02-21

The eyelashes are coming..

Nischal, like many other babies I'm guessing, has no eyebrows, or eyelashes and very little hair. Its really incredible that we find these hairless, eyebrowless, eylashless beings super super cute. In the same breath we no doubt also consider ourselves 'smart' , 'intelligent', etc.

 

While I remember the eyebrow thing with Avaneesh, I don't remember how his eyelashes were. So we had decided that Nischal will end up being a 'no eyelash' being. 

But 3 days ago, Lo and behold, we spied small prickly things growing at the tip of his eyelids. He's growing eyelashes!