Sunday, July 22, 2012

Day 128

Vidhi has been particularly cranky these days and can manage to cry for hours with no notice. At such times, her cries are blood curdling and will take anywhere between one to two hours to get under control. One wonders at ferocity of her screams that how can she cry even louder were something more terrible (say, physical pain) were to happen.



Recently we dared to go to Food Bazzar to do bit of weekly shopping. Her bouts of sobbing in middle of shopping soon turned into screams by the time we were into checkout and almost everyone from 100 feet turned to look at us. Same thing happened, again, few days later at Shooper's Stop. When that happens, I feel so embarrassed that I run with her outside even though her cries are enough to warrant a good look from every one. In case I am in middle of checkout, Radhika has to run to car to console or feed her.

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