Birthday bonanzas

Raghav's various birthday parties have certainly left an indelible mark on him. Yesterday he was in a terribly good mood, and despite the fact that we didn't do much all day he was jumping and skipping and dancing at home all evening. While I was cooking and Nalin was working, Raghav busied himself with this and that and would only come to me to show me something clever that he had done.

He put a chopstick in his football (in that indentation where the air is filled) and sat and sang "Happy Birthday" to himself. As soon as I saw him do that I remembered that he had a football shaped cake on his birthday, and that we had put candles on it and sang Happy Birthday to him.

Another invention of the chopstick was when I gave him a piece of apple to eat, he put his chopstick through it and ate it like that ! I don't think he's ever seen anyone eat fruit like that.

The Boy and the Whistle

On the birthday that was celebrated in his class, Nalin and Nitin had carried some whistles for the kids. Throughout the party, Raghav was stuck with obsessively trying to blow that whistle. There was another kid who was able to do it, and Raghav seemed obsessed with trying to do it as well. He was able to unfurl it by blowing into it, but he couldn't get it to produce any noise. Even while the birthday song is being sung, all he's doing is blowing the whistle. Even when it was time to blow the candles, he's trying to blow the candles while the whistle is still in his mouth. The video then shows either Nalin or Nitin taking out the whistle from his mouth, and when he's finished with blowing out the candles and clapping for his birthday song, he goes right back to demanding the whistle back.