orange orange everywhere

Amelia learnt all her colours very young - and has decided her favourite colour is orange. And she tells us all about it a gazillion times a day. I am shown orange water-tanker, sena flags, traffic signals and orange traces in just about every CMYK image there is. And havinga bit of Adu in her, she is now a song-writer and composer. Amelia has madeup a song, inspired by the shiv sena new found zeal to recapture the heart of the marathi manoos by stringing bloody orange flags across the trees in yari road. it goes like this:
Orange orange everywhere,
here and there here and there
The sky is blue everywhere
I see orange here and there
Sometimes there is yellow here and there
but orange orange everywhere!!!

birthday prep

You know the problem with having a super-well adjusted social butterfly toddler - other toddler birthday parties! And the concept that if its a party there must be cake. So was trying to drag amelia away from this drop-dead boring (and by that i mean trying to surf on my bb and not getting reception since party was in basement) family get-together at 10pm, waaay past her bedtime and she says Mama, there is cake. we have to wait! for CAKE! PINK CAKE!! dude, this child is like hypnotised by the cake much as one would imagine being in kaa's coils.

But that's not the tough part. It's when we are headed home after gorging on pink cake - when we talk about when Amelia will be 3 and there will be a big birthday party and we do the guestlist - which varies based on who shared their toys in the playground and the cake, based on the latest cartoons. So far we've debated merits of pretty princess cake versus mickey-mouse cake, and have settled on humpty-dumpty cake. So far!!! two more months to go. I've also been instructed that there must not be magic show, since my PETA child doesnt like the mistreatment of white mice and doves (father's genes - except for you know when he has to eat mutton. Then its ok to kill the animals to serve the higher purpose of his stomach)
And no puppet show because it distracts from the cake cutting - dancing and games is allowed provided the song list is desi girl, sexy bitch and singh is king. The twisted concepts this kid is growing up with.