Nearing the 1 Year mark

Hi Guddu

You are nearing the 1 year mark and on 25th July 2006 you will be a year old ! Its amazing how time flies by and how independent you've become...
I wud luv to write to you how this year milestone is a mixed bag of feelings for me ...however I shall save that for a later time when I can sit calmly, collect my thoughts and write something beautiful to you
Meanwhile I would want to update this site with what you've been upto as I would not want to forget all the important milestones you've acheived

a) On the 1st of July you took your first 8-9 independent steps while we played left right left and you walked back and forth between mamma and papa. However looks like after abt 2-3 days this game lost its charm and you wanted to graduate to running without learning to walk first. This of course caused you to plonk down as your feet would not be able to catch up with the rush of your excitement and I think this kind of took your interest out of this little game of left right left :). You like to play by your own rules and girlie that is not really possible all the time...Anyways to mamma you've already acheived the milestone of walking before your first birthday so yipppppeee to that

b) I forgot to add that you can stand independently examining interesting stuff for long enuff periods of time ...and you constantly practice to bend and pick up stuff and stand again. You are now doing the sit ups mamma papa and nannu have done many a time to put you to sleep.

c) You have learnt to get off carefully from the 8 inch mattress that we sleep on ... and you've figured chaaddo and uttaro and played that game with mamma with great excitement yesterday.

d) You have for the past 2-4 days started calling me mmmmmuuummmmmmmmi .... and its really music to the ears and though your first word was papa I think the wait for hearing you call me mummy was well worth it. You say papa tooo when you are desperate to get papa to pick up stuff for you or when you go looking for him around the house. You say thata when u feel like ...
Of course baby and bye bye you've mastered to perfection...You also say "daaan" for "dant" which stands for teeth in hindi.

e) You are able to spot balls all over newspapers and magazines and anything circular is a ball as of now and you raise your hand to the head to say ball and sometimes say "ba". You also are able to imitate gestures in pictures - like putting hand to mouth , saying "Jai" and you have an uncanny sense to spot all pictures of gods and do "Jay" to them. I mean even when we have not taught you. Makes me believe that kids have that special sixth sense that elders forget to use as they grow up.

f) You've been down with viral fever for past 4-5 days and so you are ona hunger strike. Hoping you wud get better soon and eat better and be able to be more comfortable without the running nose and the bad cough

g)Papa has got you a nice cute little new toy which is a penguin that goes around walking and turning itself from all walls and its sort of seems to a perpetual machine which wud go on for ever unless the battery goes down or we switch it off . You just love the toy

h) You are becoming sort of a book worm . You just lovvvve books and keep asking us to show you the pictures and tell abt the story ... You know at least one character in each book ....

i) You are able to stack rings ( not necessarily in the right order) easily for the past 2 months or so

Hmm.. I think there are many more updates I am missing out on but will soon write to you again abt those.

More later
luv
mamma