Whimsical 6: The home gets digital

I have fallen in love with this lockdown, and this working from home is getting increasingly interesting with the day.

Since day 1, I have been attending meetings, and the kiddo is very curious about what these meetings are. He would silently sneak into the room, where I lock myself into for meeeting (finding the key and opening the door himself). He would promise to sit silently next to me, and stays silent- until it's my turn to speak. I largely keep myself muted, and the moment I unmute to speak, he is all excited- sings songs, murmurs music and all kinds of nautanky. 

Then started his online classes. Initially he complained of sore eye etc., but later he was too excited to even notice if there was a sore eye. There was a constant competition- 'amma, how many participants in your meeting? What? Only 8? My meeting has 30 participants. I won'. There was a boring HR briefing once, where the whole organisation of 400+ participants were on my meeting. He couldn't quite take the fact that there could be 400participants in a meeting, and our boys ego was hurt that he has only 30+ participants.

I enjoy his company through the day, and my actual work (besides meetings) happen mostly in the late nights. And as most conversations happen over whatsapp, he is curious as to what I converse on. Thanks to the newly acquired reading skills, he keeps peeping into my monitor/mobile to check on what I have been typing. One night a colleague and I were having a very interesting conversation. In the middle of the conversation, I excused myself and typed,'let me put kiddo to sleep and reply back', without realizing he was watching. He immediately retorted, 'Oho, you're going to chat after I sleep?', much to my amusement. 

All attempts to put him to sleep in the night are in vain. On closer inspection, we realize he keeps himself wide awake just to watch these conversations and my slide preps. His biggest grouse these days are that Amma types so fast, while he hasn't been able to. He's started on creating slides and practising typing. Ha ha!