Tarana Tales

The first thing Tarana insists on every morning is giving her mamma and appa big hugs and kisses. Slobbery and smelly as they are, its this biased mother's favourite start to the day. When Robin was traveling for a couple of days, Tarana would get out of bed and go looking for him in the bathrooms; and I would get a few extra hugs at the end of her unsuccessful search for Appa.

She has started saying a lot more words and also putting a few short sentences together. At the dinner table she enthusiastically calls out for her f**k (fork) and asks us for our f**ks (forks) - keeping Robin and me absolutely entertained during dinner!

Her list of favourite people that she calls out to before falling a sleep is growing longer. It started of with just 'appa' - clearly a fathers daughter, and grew to include Chechi, Aka and Sachi in our last few months in London. It now includes two 'friends' from the kindergarten here – Erika and Inshara, and occasionally her new Nanny - Violet. It doesn't look like 'mamma' has a chance of creeping onto this list.

She has started to constantly copy Robin and me. After her shower, Tarana demands that her towel is wrapped around her like her appa wraps his after a shower; she insists on wearing my shoes, pretends to drink tea like we do and loves to cook with her toy utensils.

It's great fun reading stories to her now as she remember the characters in each book and has finally got an attention span longer than her dad's which means she actually sits through an entire story and says 'over' when we reach the last page!