Week of bonding and of many other events

Started writing this on April 2nd
Dear Gabdu,
Have been quite busy and hence unable to update you on what u've been upto. Well you've had a wonderful time with papa the whole of last week and with nanu on weekend b4 that.
So lemme start with last weekend. Nanu arrived on 22nd of March for an official trip to mumbai ( pbbly his last official trip as he retired on 31st March ). We had all gone to pick him up at the airport and guess what ? As usual the flight was delayed. You loved the crowded airport arrival area where there were like a zillion people almost standing one on top of another thanks to the renovation work on at the airport. Anyways so you were quite amazed looking at the ocean of people at the airport. You smiled benovelently at folks who were not even looking at you. That was pbbly when you showed the first signs of getting over your stranger anxiety ( ok if not completely .. at least to a certain extent).Also this was the first time you took to performing if I may say so .. 'cos everytime after that we've observed that in malls and anywhere outside, you smile and clap and wave and attract loads of attention .. people find u cute and want to pick you up and we hear wishpers of - "how cute" .. going around. And the moment we step out of these "public" places to get back into the car, you start screaming as if u are not being fed and are being tortured. Papa likes to shield you from the evil eye and picks you up and takes u away from the stares when you start attracting attention.
Anyways so back to the pt when Nannu came visiting... well lots of developments happened
a) You did not cry ( no hint of even a whimper) when nanu took you half asleep as soon as he arrived at the airport
b) We thot a) above was because you were sleepy. So just to prove us wrong you woke up in between and nannu put you back to sleep with situps at the airport..Then when we were getting back home you woke up and peacefully played in the car with nanu .. What is it that clicked between you and nanu I wonder...
c) You looked up at the fan when nannu asked you where is fan . Also this is the first time you actually recognised who is nannu and who is papa by turning to them when asked "papa kahan hain" and nannu kahan hain. Of course when asked where mumma was you drew a blank :).
d) you laughed and played like crazy crawling from papa to nannu and back for abt 1 hr in the evening
e) you stood up at the bedstead and also walked 2-3 steps to reach nannu
f) Hmm .. you had an infection in the ear :( and we all went to the doc and he asked us " I don't know why people harass the child" and he warned us that we may need to use antibiotics for the infection :( Sorry darling but we should have waited for you to grow up and decide when to pierce your ears.
g)As if this was not enuff, when nanu left mama tried some of your old jhablas on you and one of them had some lose threads which got caught in your earring and you screamed in pain. Idiotic mummy did not remove the dress and change you and so it got caught again and you screamed in pain again and also had some blood around the ear piercing area. :( sorry abt this
Your patti was away to attend your meena atthais marriage ( hopefully you will meet her sometime soon ..) so papa took the entire week to take care of you. So monday to wednesday he took care of every little cry and need of yours. In the process he got to see the real you closely and is now even more in love with his daughter .. Also you got to play with papa full time and freak out with him and now you are real close to papa. I will be copying papas senti letter to you from his diary soon to this place
Anyways the other big thing that happened was the entire pani puri plate fell on you and the contents spread on ur face hands , legs and all over your body :( in the mall. Mama ran to the washroom and literally bathed you and then as I had not carried a towel or cloth with me to the restroom, I wiped you with my dupatta. Thank God nothing entered your eyes. Thanks to the maids in the restroom who made you laugh as u were shaking from the shock of everything having fallen over you. It seemed to papa and mama that it was deifinitely the evil eye at work because u were the cynosure of all eyes at the mall and all of us were enjoying ourselves thoroughly till this incident happened
Btw its like the 13th of April as I complete this letter and you caught a bad throat infection last week and had fever too. Dunno if this was due to the incident in the mall...
Anyways you are much better now. You chatter non stop and are comfortably able to pull urselves up at the cane sofa and take steps.Also u says baba when saying bye bye couple of times making me record this as first occurence of words from you
The highlight of this week is gonna be papas turkey trip and trying to potty train you.
Ok dearie.. guess this post has taken ages to write to high time to send it across to u..

luv
mama