Question: Have you tried drinking mum's new moisturizer or something? iPad or mama's cell phone? Have you given Mina any new name? (Asked By LetsBreatheWords_)

Inayah:

Let me tell you something about babies. We are super adventurous, and we love discovering new types of eatables. For example, I recently discovered an alternative to make-believe tea!

Daddy got me this fancy pink Tea-set, and taught me to drink make-believe tea with him. It was fun, even though I kept nibbling on the fake fruits that came with the set. (I am teething. It's a medical condition. Kay.)

Then one of my play-group buddies Lily showed me a way to make REAL tea, with REAL water! I was so excited that I even abandoned de-furring my stuffed Panda Bear, in order to play Tea-set all day long! It was messy, but our Play-Group monitors are big on letting us discover ourselves, so we can practically do anything, regardless of the mess, (Something Mina needs to learn, jbtw. Badly.)

When Daddy came home that day, I surprised him with a tea-cup (more or less) filled with water. He slurped his way through it, making me squeal with joy, as he praised me in his exaggerated Daddy way, by kissing me, and asking for more tea.

I disappeared into Mom and Dad's room, before mysteriously emerging with another teacup of yummy tea-water.

"What are you guys doing?" Mina looked up curiously from her sketchbook.

"The princess and I are having a royal Tea party!" Daddy beamed at me, slurping his fourth cup of "Royal" tea. "Mmmmm Yummy Tea baby!" I clapped in glee at his enthusiastic response.

"Pee party!" I made Mina laugh at my attempt to say Tea. "Mo?" I asked Daddy.

He handed me his empty cup, "More tea! YES!"

"Peeeee!" I rushed off to fill another cup. And then another.

My Mommy observed us for a while before dryly asking my Dad, "Shehzer you do realize that she is bringing the water from the bathroom?"

"Yeah, I know. I can live on tap-water, love. No worries!" He slurped and made more funny noises to make me giggle.

"What about toilet water? can you live on toilet water?" She started snorting with laughter. Dad paused in mid slurp to stare horrified at me.

"Yummy Peeee!" I chortled with joy, making Mina fall off her couch with her fits of hilarity.

"Oh....my...HAHAHAHA! Honey! you have to know the only available water at her height is-HAHA- fresh from the toilet!"

"I'll die young Mina. Our kid will kill me. And with a smile on her face....Argh. Look at her, giggling perfectly innocently with those tiny teeth!" Daddy groaned at my attempt to endear him.

"Mo pee? Dadda?" I methodically snatched the pink teacup from Dad before going about refilling it with yummy tea.

Sadly though, Daddy refused to drink it, and distracted me (quite successfully) with the lure of Sesame Street games on his iPad.

This is just a glimpse of the different experiments I have done with food around the house!

Oh, and for the other question, Yes, I often come up with new names for Mina. So everyone around me, has to be careful about what they call her!

Daddy got me to call her baby for a week straight! She wasn't amused.

But the worst was when I overheard my Auntie Adiba calling Mina a rude pet name. It was in Urdu. Hence, it so happens that one of my first Urdu words is a semi-offensive adjective.

I think K**inee Minnie has a nice ring to it.

Mina vested a lot of energy, purging me off this one.