If you have a daughter you must learn to:

1. Giggle, giggle and giggle until your stomach hurts. Yes, that's what we do most of the time and that too on any silly things as good as making faces at each other.

2. Make PINK/VIOLET your favorite color. Yes, you almost don't get stuffs other than these two colors for baby girls.

3. Be happy to own a personal fashion-adviser, no matter how clown you look after every make-over done by her.

4. Dance and sing too. Anytime, anywhere she desires a company.

5. Drink and eat endless cups of make-believe teas & samosas.

6. Find every other stuffed toys to be 'extremely cute'.

7. Stop complaining your husband about her (she actually has him completely wrapped around her little finger).

8. Wait for your turn at your own dressing table.

9. Enjoy all the attention she showers on you - all those self-less hugs and smooches.

10. Define your gratitude as you watch her grow because you see nothing but a mirror image of yourself in her.

Mimme-Shreya on Diwali '12 get-together