The growth chart

A few habits of my kids I have noticed of late:

1. Ash does not throw a tantrum about wanting to go out when we go out. Instead he says: "Appa, buy ice(cream) and balloon" (translated from Malayalam).
2. Today, he insisted on his dad going out when he was using the pot! He even wanted him to close the bathroom door.
3. Mira stashes away her potty under the cot after she uses it and I clean it. She is getting more interested in using the potty.
4. She can lift each leg to get into her bloomers/shorts - no more a passive participant in the dressing up.
5. She puts on her shoes ever so often hoping she can go out. She however hates her school bag and going to school, and tells us to keep it back as she prepares to go to school with her dad. The separation is making her show more affection towards us.
6. Both insist on washing hands after eating. In fact they drag a cane stool/plastic chair to the kitchen/washbasin tap, lean over and wash it themselves. Only, you cant get them to stop wasting the water - the washing becomes an endless process until an adult intervenes. The liquid soaps have gone into safe hiding.
7. Both wave at aeroplanes circling in the sky and say, "Appacha, tata, Ammachi, tata". They seem to have understood that their grandparents have taken a flight and gone somewhere.