Avyaan is now at a stage where he, sometimes, talks in his sleep, and wakes up when has had some sort of scary one.
Today morning, when he was half awake, he suddenly woke up, and the first line he said was, "किसने लिया अव्यान का ट्रॅक्टर?" ("Who took away Avyaan's tractor?").
Some context should help here. Avyaan is very fond of model vehicles, of all sorts. It doesn't matter whether it is a big rig truck, a garbage truck, a police car, or a vintage jeep, he loves them all. My sister, Bhavya, is visiting us and she brought him a model tractor, the workhorse of Indian agriculture. As anything novel, he refused to let it leave his side for all of yesterday. You can see him sleeping with the tractor in his hand during his afternoon nap.
However, as the day went on, he started poking and prodding at its parts, and by the evening had destroyed the steering wheel. By dinner time, one of the seats was also out, at which point I took it away from him and told him that he'll not get it if he kept destroying it.
Apparently, he was dreaming about his tractor at night. It must be nice to be at an age where your nightmares concern losing toys and you don't have much else to worry about.
