Aim for the moon.. You might get the laptop!

I get lucky sometimes. And I mean extremely lucky.

I get to play with Papa's Phone and Digital Camera!

I can play with it as long as i want. The catch being, only as long as I sit on the sofa. As soon as I try to get up from the sofa with that thing in my hand, my access to high technology gets revoked. Imagine if Einstein's mother had done the same to him! Where would the world be? Well that's another story, best saved for another time. Or better still, Einstein can crib about it in his own time, on his own blog.

Now coming back to me.

So Momma's 1st law for me is, high technology = sit in one place.

And I'm pretty happy with that arrangement.

The other day I was just hanging around and doing a lot of things kids my age are supposed to be doing (and a lot of others they're not), when I saw Papa's laptop.

It was on the dining table along with other misc. articles, like Mom's watch, coasters, a bottle of water, the TV remote etc.

Keeping the above law in mind, I went and sat on the sofa. And smiled away to glory, with all the innocence of a 20 month old, angel ring and all in place.

Seeing my stationary state Mom was pleasantly surprised. Her little angel was actually behaving like one today ;-)!

Now that I had Mom's loving attention, I made my move.

I pointed and nodded furiously towards the table, obviously pointing towards the laptop and gesturing for it to be placed onto my lap.

Mom failed to catch on (or at least she pretended not to latch on, despite the obvious reference.. Grrrr!!). Sometimes I feel they know what I'm looking for, but just try to divert my attention by asking unnecessary questions (ditto Grrrr!!).

She offered me the bottle of water, which I sweetly refused.

Then, one of the coasters, which I refused a little vehemently. Then another, which I refused with a little more V.

And then the TV remote. Now I must admit, if a laptop were not at stake, I would have settled for the remote any day. But not today! Today was laptop day and I was badly itching for one.

I kept nodding my head in the negative, almost at peak vehemence now.

Then, just as I was running out of vehemence (and steam), Mom looked at me with a giving smile.

Yeeaaa, I'd done it.. Mom finally understood!! Hurray!

I was a little dumbfounded when I found Mom's watch in my hand..

Well.. You win some, you lose some.. But that was definitely worth a try!