Agnes Femin wants her son to cry. Every time. Not just cry, he should cry aloud. He should not only just cry sometimes, but also skew his face in a particular way, with eyes reduced and lips glued on one another so that it should show him up in the pinnacle of some agony.

By now, you must have assumed a mad mistress of early forties, hating her son for no reasons and keeps on pestering him. But you go wrong as the curtain raises and I introduce a new character in this LIFE of mine, who is none other than our cute little babe Aggy!

Agnes Femin is her formal brand name! She is my niece, my wife's brother's daughter, of almost thirty months age.

Aggy is the only daughter of her parents and the apple of everyone's eyes. But some time back, she was on the lookout for somebody, whom she can love. Love like the way she is being loved; a baby in her hands. Her parents gave her many dolls. She tried acting like a mom to them, but they did not respond ultimately. And that's when I came into her life.

Don't know whether she has assessed me as a child, somehow, on a fine day, she has adopted me as her baby without my knowledge. She would call me "Unni" with a cute sweet-coated mother's tongue. No hassles, I have started helping her with nice baby-cries and instant-insistences and other symptoms every child shows. But she was more demanding; she wanted my cries to be louder so that she shouldn't feel like deserting her child and leave for office! She wanted me not to eat with my hands, so that she could rightfully feed her child, (in a thousand spoons). She wanted me to sleep on her lap, so that her baby would feel most comfortable.

That was where we started.

One day, I did not show up for the act. It was Eby's (my wife, synonym; Shelby, Steffy & more.) turn. She had played her tactics on Aggy so that it came out to be great fun. As her 'mother' approached her with her 'demands' Eby used the chance so grandly. She asked this restless mother to do that and this and those and these, and Aggy had to really run around to keep her ‘child’ entertained! Finally Aggy said, "Stop! Now you be the mother, and I will be your Unni"

Fun of all times!