When Poosh became Spoon

Well , so u said spoon instead of poosh .. and guess what mamma told u while handing it over - here take the poosh :)) . So looks like u'll be speaking our language and we urs in a few days and hence still have a communication gap . Ah yes ! before i forget a critical milestone u achieved .. well u picked ur nose yesterday and well no furtive "teerithumulli" looks yet from u but soon u shall find that its a gaffe to pick ur nose in public and u shall do it only when u think no ones watching :))
Other new stuff
Clearly saying Thank you
Saying Ayesha for the husha busha or whatever portion of Ring-a-ringa roses !
Bib
Badda has now become abba ( for Dabba)

Interesting to watch u learn the language we speak :)

luv
mamma

Dandia beats

Guddu:

Today you went for your first dandiya - and you enjoyed yourself.
First of all, you wore a ghaghraa choli that nana nani had got - u looked very cute in it.
It rained and delayed your entry, but once you landed there, you started enjoying.

But all the fun started after Arsh came. You started going to Pooja aunty and dancing with her. You danced with Arsh, pushed him and shoved him, and even treaded his toes. Of course, he was dancing on his own, with no concern. But if you fell or bent or did anything whacky (which you did off and on), he did the same.
You two formed a comic pair - and we enjoyed seeing you two interact, and dance. Arsh was clealr spending time wooing you and you were behaving pricey.
Next week is the main dandia - and we will be ready for that too!

Pappa

Vocab updates

Heres what u've been saying newly last week

Shriya ( for Shriya - ur friend who is abt 3 mnths younger to you)
Bead ( For Bread - actually u pbbly say bread but because I think its very difficult to say that I assume u missing the "r")
Pamana ( for Banana I think)
Papaya ( For papaya)
Bitta ( for Biscuit)
Botty ( for Bottle)
Potty ( For Potty)
Aappy ( For doing stuff on ur own - aaapi aapi)
Hot ( For hot stuff)
Nice ( For nice eatables - and u say it so selectively that I really think you know the concept of "Nice")
Monkey ( For Monkey from ur Animal Safari set)
Kangi( For Kanghi as in comb)
Shaow ( or smthng like that for Shadow - U just love Shadows of Itsy Bitsy Spider)
Itty ( For Itsy from "Itsy Bitsy")
Eaa Eaa( You actually almost seem to know the complete rhyme - I mean u say Eaaa Boww Eaaa Moww ... :) - For the rhyme old man donald had a farm ...)
Can't recollect more but u speaking like tons of words !!!
Oh yes and Thanku ( For Thank you whenever u give some one anything)
You said Cut Cut today.. when u asked for the knife from Mamma
Also u said Pehno when u gave mamma the Apron to wear .. did u mean Pehno ( as in wear in Hindi)
To say the least I am thrilled to bits that u speak many words :)
Easier to understand u
luv
Mamma

Baby's Night Out

Dear Guddu:

Last weekend, you came with mamma pappa to Mulund, to mamma's colleague's (Archana) place. You slept well and we left cheerfully at 5:30 PM for a drive that would be around 45 minutes. Just when we left, Archana called and told us it had rained a lot at Mulund - we thought, ok, 45 minutes will become 60 minutes and went on. We drove and it started raining, it rained and drizzled and rained, we drove on and reached halfway by 6:15. And then the tarffic was jammed - it stayed jammed, and we had to turn back, take a fresh route and go on. We did not want to turn back as it would have been a painful trek back. We reached at 8:3PM - three hours for a 45 minute drive - amazing na ...

But what really was amazing was you - you were the best behaved baby ... no tanturm at all. Mamma and you in the back seat. You had a biscuit and some fruit - then you kept asking for biscuit calling it "bitta". You pottied also, and stayed put in your diaper without a murmur. Baby, you really showed us you knew that we were in the middle of nowhere - no cribs nor cries, just sat back and babbled, whimpered a bit, but overall ok. Then we reached Mulund.

Special concession for you because of your good behaviour - mamma pappa allowed you to stay up late .. really late ... Once we got to Arachana's flat, you settled down to doing masti - you looked around, were offered toys and started playing around. You happily began playing with Radha, even sometimes, pushing her. You walked around, had dal rice, played with Radha's toys as if those were yours, and tried to impress Archana ... And finally, after 11:45 we left.

At 11:50, the back seat of the car had one person awake (mamma) and one tiny occupant fast asleep (YOU !!!). We reached home by 12:30 - you slept throughout the drive, then through the rest of the night and, thankfully, some part of the morning ...

All in all, we saw you enjoyed the play session. And you behaved so well during the entire trip, mamma pappa thouroughly impressed with you.

Love
Pappa

Jab main chotta baccha tha....

Last nite mamma was trying to remember the earliest memory she had of her childhood and was asking papa too. Ok ..in case you have doubts, mama papa were not always like this but grew up to be what we are today .. yes I know its difficult for you to fathom but we were infants, toddlers and tiny tots too. We cried too and we were naughty too ..I know u will take quite some time to come to terms with this truth and pbbly may not even come to terms with u. To tell u the truth I find it difficult to imagine nana nani or for that matter thatha patti as ever being little kids !! Nanu tells me he was so naughty that a scar on his head is because of some scuffle he had with his elder bro. He regales us with tales of his funny teachers and well frankly speaking to this day I think he is making it all up and he always was a papa and never went thru a childhood !!! :))
Anyways so coming back to the earliest memories we have. Well I remember coming back from LKG( lower Kindergarten as it was called then...and which was right below mamma's first home at 9, 1st Avenue- oh and its name was Shalimar if I remember right), and having chappatis with dollops of white butter which melted the moment it touched the mouth .. Yuummmm !!Also I remember a green water bottle ( that nanu nani had got from Delhi) that I took to standard 1,which some kid accidentally broke and I took her to nanu ( on a saturday) and told him that she broke my bottle ! I also remember it had a cute sticker of a rose on it ...So well I think the earliest I remember is at abt 3 -4 years old. Similarly papa also remembers his stay at Tanzania the best and he remembers it quite well actually. I will leave it to him to tell u abt it later .

But the pt is ... can I get away with anything right now because u will not really remember this later ? *wink* and *evil grin*


luv
mamma

p.s: the title of the post is a popular jingle from an ad in papa mammas times - Jab main chotta bachha tha badi shararat karta tha... phir bhi meri chori pakdi jaati, jab roshan hota bajaj :)

Drive Carefully: Bumps Ahead

Or shud I say watch what you speak because copying ahead... Gabdu, you can now say so many words and well on Saturday morn you actually made a quasi sentence or used a phrase- said "Bottle Ded0".You said it twice and did not repeat or make any more phrases later but its a milestone nevertheless ...You repeat everything mama papa say. You say "tee" for tv , "Bush" for "Books", "Moosh" for spoon, "Daaaddu" for Jhadu. You say "Aunty","teddy","Hanu" ( short for Hanuman) so clearly and now say "itsy" when u want us to sing itsy bitsy spider for u.You also say"two" quite often after mamma says "one" ... so seems like u are all set to count. Mamma papa really need to be careful abt how we behave and what we say in front of u. This morning u went around waving ur index finger and speaking gibberish with so much modulation like u were giving instructions or scolding some one. You went on and on for good 10 mins all over the house !!! This I guess u picked up from mamma scolding u many a time ... to sleep or not to do masti etc !! Instead of getting scared or correcting urself, you have started imitating mama :) Its very cute but mamma papa need to take this as a cue to be very careful abt what we say or do in front of u. We visited infinity mall on saturday eve and u had a blast at landmark bookstore which had a kiddy section with all toys. You went berserk in the soft toys section with all the teddys ... saying teddy teddy as u went around picking and examining several. You got ur first quasi lego ( read cheap) set too. In short u had a wonderful wonderful time at the mall ... and so did mama and papa ( u were ready to have milk from the bottle and also had something to eat so mama was not too worried for one...)
You wore two ponytails yesterday with ur denim shirt and white skirt and looked so endearing. Mama papa did not take a snap but we will definitely take one the next time u are in that outfit
And yes, finally, you have ur upper middle incisors coming in ( sprouting ) !! Mama cud feel the sharp edges when mama touched that area ... wow my kiddo is finally gonna have two more teeth . Hopefully u can bite and eat more stuff now... ( but pls do not bite mamma when u drink milk ..ouch !! even the thought makes me wince !)
Thats my update for the weekend ..
Oh.. and yes u have started preening urself in the mirror .. and look so cute doing that :) . You have always admired urself in the mirror but now its like turning this way and that way to check urself out ... ooh fashion conscious !!
Okie more later
luv
mamma

Until you came along....

I thought I was a career woman and very ambitious,

I never knew how to hold a little baby,

I never thought I wud luv to kiss and hug a baby with a runny nose,

I never thought I could do so many situps,

I never knew I cud manage to think, walk and work with such less sleep( 8 hrs + was the norm b4 that),

I never thought I wud not go mall hopping or movie watching because it wud ruin ur sleep or food timings,

I never was thankful to papa for anything( but he gave me his best gift ever with u),

I never observed dogs , birds, nature and everything else around me the way I do now,

I never thought that anything and everything around the house cud be used to play !,

I never thought I wud think twice b4 planning to visit Nana Nani when I needed to be there( but with you I chose not to go when nani nana left for Noida and are now having to setup everything on their own without the littlest of support from anyone :( ..),

I never thought I wud look at poop colour, smell and consistency and clean anyones butt !,

I thought the toughest part of being a parent was the pregnancy !,

I never appreciated my mom and other moms the way I do now,

I never thought I wud be so dependent on others,

I never thought I wud take to the kitchen so regularly and do so much housework while being a working mom,

I never knew the meaning of unconditional love as clearly as I do now ...,

I thought I was very modest and wud not dare to bare my breasts in front of anyone and everyone,

I never knew there is always so much to learn abt parenting ,

I never knew that parenting choices are dilemmas and have deep impact on how the child grows up to be...,

and

I thought I was "boss" at home :)

Ok guddus I am running out of stuff now, passing the ball to papa to play on ...

Ganapathi Bappa Morya

Gabdumms ,

This weekends highlight was pandal hopping. We( twice you went just with pappa) visited abt 7 pandals and you enjoyed urself thoroughly seeing Ganapathiji and saying Jai each time religiously. Did I tell you that we had our own gannoji also this time ( for the very first time)that papa brought home. This means that we will be getting Gannoji home every year during Ganesh Chaturthi. Apart from this new and nice beginning, the last week ( or may be last two weeks ) have seen many more new wonderful beginnings on various counts from you. You can now feed urself tukdas of chappati if given in a plate or given in ur hand. You have learnt to get off from the bed/sofa and any other high place. You have learnt to say "Auto" for the autorickshaw. You also say Aunty very clearly now . Uncle is still "Anna" though. Papa showed you all your toys and you could call each one ( almost) by name or at least first syllable of its name. You also learnt first syllables of urs,pappas and mammas names as well as the places where nana nani and thata patti stay.
And the best new thing that u surprised mamma was with almost sleeping on ur own ! True you have not done a repeat performance on that again, but there is still a glimmer of hope that sleep and nap times will no longer be wrestling matches and exercise sessions. On Friday, ie on the Sept 1st, mamma kept patting you and singing to you as you lay next to her and you drifted into dreamland in a matter of minutes.
You are surprising mamma and pappa with newer and newer words that you learn ... these are words we have mentioned only in passing and not revised /revisited with you but u still seem to know them very well . We are still to figure out why you call the spoon "mosh" though. You love saying "car" and making mamma race up the car on the tough terrain of ur arms and legs :)
Its so much fun to watch u play with the other kiddies downstairs. You seem to have the right amt of aggression as well as friendliness :). All of you seem to want each others balls and bats and don't seem to care if someone takes away urs . Also all of you are nakalchi bandars ( copy cats) reaffirming that the monkeys and apes are top floor residents of the family tree of human beings :)
Well seems like my lunch time is running out, so I shall update u a little more some other time

luv
mamma