Dr Anvitha D Bakshi :)

Anvi kutty,

Till today,neither me nor Amma thought or wished or wanted to enforce any profession on to you when you grow up , we still don't do and we won't in future too. But today something happened that made us feel faintly that may be you could be the first medical doctor in our family.

Innovation is something I am trying to learn from you off late. Slowly as we were getting absorbed in the routines of the day we suddenly noticed you doing something you have never done before. You picked the headset of one of the mobile phones and started playing yourself as a doctor with your Aaji. The ear piece became the stethoscope, the other part you tied around your neck and you started using the same vocab like your doctor. " Moocha izhuthu vidunga" you said, asking your granny to breathe when you checked her heart beat.

To add to that your emotions, gestures everything was trying to be a doctor. You kept a small pen under my arms and slowly withdrew it and said with a typical doctory-delibration " Hmmm 100( Hundred) irukku...". Then you started writing prescription prescribing medicines , suggesting doses, this time to your mom. And your Amma was the lucky one to get your first injection :).

I found bliss in possessing a smart phone as I was able to capture these moments.

"Moocha izhuth.."

And a small video clipping of how you did it is here

As always this made us flow into dreamland and me and your mom were flying and for the first time we felt you will probably become a doctor. One thing led to another and we ended up buying you a doctor set :).

These were the pics taken after you started using your doctor kit.

Pics with your doctor kit

And the punch was when I asked you " Dr Enna eppo check up pannuveenga?" ( When will you do a check up for me?) and that is when with your doctory mazhalai you replied " Naan mammam saaptitu check up panren" :)[ I will check up after eating mammam]
Mazhalai is a tamil word for baby talk.