and then there were four

i still remember the day td was born. i was 6 then but some memmories are so vivid in the mind. all the cousins were gathered in nani jees house in the guest room. the same room in which ash and zab decided that the best way to fix the electric socket was to use a pin, the same room in which i got locked as a child, the same room in which zab mutilated the fake eyeball and catapulted it to the ceiling and it stayed there for ever, the same room in which rafique mamu scolded us coz we wouldnt go to sleep as we were fighting over the fact that it was peru not peeerrooo :), ahhh.

well yes coming back to birth of the bratt. she was such a cutums and everyone was dying to pick her up. as she came 4 yrs after lali , in the begining lali sort of became quiet as she was she was upset over the fact that td would be fighting her for her place as the youngest but once lali saw the lil bugger she fell in love with her . 4 yr old lali with a fringe and tiny hands would hold td our bundle of joy and rock her to sleep.

accroding to maich she is the one who brought td up but she is such a liar. according to td she has 4 mothers who nag her all the time. mom would ask lali if she would give the baby her toys, and lali would say yes, she said yes to every thing but when mom asked "will you give the baby you milk bottle" lali never replied. but i think lali sort of cared for td the most when we were babies. we all loved her in our own ways but lali sort of adored her lil sis.

then td turned 8 and it was time for her to join the gang. the ash zab ushi lali gang. originally the gang consisted of ash zab and me :) i was the un challenged leader. the first day ujala joined in she couldnt take the heat and broke down at mid night when she saw the cockroach flying around. she cried so loudly that mom had to be called. ash zab and i sat there pointing at her laughing. but the next time went well and she was brave even though i was resentful of the fact that now the gang would contain more people but i settled with it as td and maddu joined in soon, even though they were given minor jobs. mostly they were our guinie pigs.

i remember being mean just for the sake of it . when td would ask whether she could sleep in my room coz ash zab were spending the night over i would say there was no space. then td all teary eyed would beg me and tell me that she would sleep anywhere. well i dont know why i did it but now i feel bad, i would sort of throw mr.B on td and indicate that she was to sleep on the study table using the bear as her pillow. haha i feel mean now but i did that everytime. coz i was always worried that td would sleep late and then i would have to tidy the room and all.

but td was the last to complete our happy family :) mashallah. there are so many memmories of our child hood and everyone of them feature the 7 of us, maich, lali, td , maddu, ash , zainab and myself ofcourse. the other day i found out that maddu had started to shave , aww my handsome boy has grown up. i used to tell him that had he been some ten years older i would have married him :) he's such a punk. i miss you ash zab and madu.