Seriously!!! Sometimes life unravels certain situations which you never thought you would experience.

What a serious start to a blog!! Well, the rest of the blog may not be serious certainly!! Why, why, why? Mr. D always brings a smile on, to me the writer and I am sure, to you the reader..

Mr. D’s communication with me and my response to him almost everytime fascinates me. I don’t know what he communicates and I try to understand the what and the why. In the process of trying to understand, I talk to him. Believe me, he isn’t going to help me understand but this is my way of talking to myself to understand what he is trying to make me understand. Whew, that sounds complicated!!

He communicates (or I think he does) with me for a few things certainly – to start with – food and water and his night sleep (when my older son and his most loved one  isn’t at home).

Food and water – One sunday morning, when he kept coming behind me wherever I went in the house and it sure wasn’t because he loved me :-).. Just a few minutes before that, I put out his food and water and he had gobbled it up.. I wasn’t sure what he wanted and as usual asked him why he was following me. The only answer was a small whine from him. Being busy in the kitchen and with him standing guard at the entrance of the kitchen, I didn’t pay much attention to the whine. The whine got slightly louder and he was walking around near the kitchen. This got my antenna up and I went to check his bowls, only to find the water bowl empty. Having got the answer for his whine, I filled the bowl and came back to the kitchen. He laps up the water and came back and whined again… Grrrrrr!!! I went to the balcony to check and found the water bowl empty again. This time, I did not want to expend too much energy by doing more walking. I filled his bowl and waited!! Mr. D drank some water and happily went to bed and slept with a snore. Poor me, went back to work in the kitchen.

If this wasn’t enough – a recent one takes the cake. Mr. D decided to skip all his meals in the day. His meals had to be binned as we couldn’t keep it for too long. The next morning, though his food was in the bowl, he decided that he will ‘demand’ something else. He followed me wherever I went for a five minutes and whineed and barked. He had just returned from his walk and so peeing and pooing were not the reason for the whine, I deduced. Smart me 🙂

“What do you want?” asks me to Mr. D.

Soulful eyes just look at me.

“You want food?”

No response yet, but just that look. And I was getting ready finishing up my chores, to start to school. The whine becomes a slight crying howl.  That quite freaked me out.

“Mr. D, I am getting late and I cannot keep looking at you to figure out what you need. If you want something, you need to ask for it.” The moment I told him this and realised what I said, I thought I lost my marbles :-).

His eyes just continued to look at me and trust me, I really felt bad, despite feeling grrrrrr!!

Rushing thru’ my chores, I quickly readied his two boiled eggs and rice, mixed and gave him. Mr. D gobbled it up and off to bed he was!! Poor me, couldn’t do what he could do 🙂

Night sleep – He is like that little kid who cannot sleep alone. When his loved one of the house ain’t there, he would lie down on the bed and after a while get up and go to another room. He would lie down there for a few minutes, get up and go back to the room he usually sleeps in. This would go on a few times. Then suddenly he will decide that he wants some attention. He will mope around whoever is at home and then a light whine would begin. The moping would be such a restless moping that I can’t but get up and go with him. What is it with me and him? Does he know that he gets what he wants from me, and so does what he thinks he should do, to get it? Hmmmn, a smart chap then he is!!

Getting back to what happens after he gets what he wants – my attention 🙂

My ritual for him to put him to sleep begins.

“Get into the room, Mr.D”.

He goes in and may pause near the bed.

“Jump” and he jumps up on the bed and curls himself.

I have to the sit next to him and carry on with my working or reading and wait for him to sleep or till his loved one is home or I also doze off next to Mr. D. This has now almost become a weekly ritual 🙁 🙂

Really!! I thought I am done and dusted bringing up two boys!! Life says, “You don’t decide, I do”.