He is growing up...

This is a short post inspired by my three year old son's 'all-grown-up' words...

Last week a Mommy squirrel left two of her baby squirrels in our attic and for some reason never returned...

The baby squirrels kept crying for food and I found that really tiny baby squirrels need to be given only milk (a complicated mixture of 4 - 5 different kinds of milk powder and other stuff) and nothing else. :-( So they finally passed away yesterday.

When I told my son that the baby squirrels have died and so the Mommy squirrel and me are sad, his response left me in tears. He said, 'Mommy, I will not die and leave you'. I was totally taken aback, but after composing myself, I told him that nothing will ever happen to him since he is under the perfect protection of the Divine to which he said, 'The squirrel baby didn't pray to the Divine that is why they died'. I told him that the squirrel babies were too little to pray to God but somehow they were destined to go back to God. He said that he would always do 'shaami' so that he can be with Mommy :-)

I am not sure if all children have this level of maturity at three years of age. Probably the children of this generation are very much grown-up in comparison to their physical age. Whatever it is, his responses left me speechless and looking for a kerchief...