Christian the Lion, Ananya's BFF

A few months ago, I made what I thought was an off the cuff remark about how, when Ananya sees her beloved Ancha these days, their reunion is like that lion in the video who joyfully reunites with his owners after over a year of living in the African jungles. Ananya wanted to know what I was talking about, so we found the video on YouTube and an OBSESSION was born. Ananya cannot get enough of Christian, the story, the video, the Aerosmith song that accompanies the video. She talks about Christian, loves anything to do with lions now, sees lions in the zoo and thinks they are Christian's friends, sings the Aerosmith song constantly, and insists that you watch the video with her whenever she is watching. She hugs as "like Christian hugs the owners", talks about how, if her hair is out of control that she has "crazy hair like the owners" (gotta love the '70s), and role plays with herself as Christian and everyone else (including little Amishoo) as the owners...which then means that she basically jumps on you and hugs and kisses you (and yes, she does this to Amisha). She wants Christian to come over to play, asks Pooneet when we can visit Christian in Africa, and even asked me yesterday "Mama, can Christian come to Dada's birthday dinner?"

The actual video (it really is an incredible story):


Ananya watching (and making everyone around her watch as well):





Ananya singing while watching (and insisting that Ammama and Avva watch with her):