9 going on 10

Dear Duggu,

In the last one month a lot has changed about your personality, from a quite ‘shant’ sweetheart to this loud naughty girl that you have become. It’s the typical “Jyoti bani jwala “  case

Neighbours have started walking in the house asking why are you shouting so much and if I need any help with you!!!

I guess you will change to many personalities before finding the one you truly belong too.

Throughout the time I was carrying you everynite I spoke to you to remind you the virtues of being easy-going but looking at the impatient you I guess I should have spoken during the day time as it looks like you were sleeping the whole time I was talking to you!!

Every day when I come back from office you  crawl towards me , your nani says this is one thing you have taken after me cause this is how I use to run towards her when I was your age

You absolutely love to go ghumi with everyone who is willing to take you out , but mostly you enjoy this with your nana cause he is the only one who takes you out no matter what.

As of now in your mind you have fix roles for everyone you want nani for food , nana for ghumi , your papa is the one you love to play with and me…………well I am for rest all of the measly stuff

You are not a very sound sleeper and you hardly sleep … the days when you sleep in day for 1-2 hrs are bliss. But the ironic part is that when you are up everyone wants you to sleep and when you sleep everyone wants you up!!

The biggest highlight of this month is that you can now crawl !! yes baby you have perfected the art of crawling and reaching out to all things which are not to be reached.

Since you have made yourself so mobile someone has to be with you all time more so when you sleep on bed cause you have tendency of moving towards beds edge in sleep.

Yes Yes! You love to scare us with your superwoman acts!!

You have graduated from playing with toys to playing with most unassuming stuff like clothes neatly folded on bed , your diaper box , your  cosmetic box, my hair et all !!

Your dad bought this toy which dances  on your sisters fav song “let it go” but you cried on the sight of it , however now your frens with the toy and you like to swing when its played.

You have lately started giving us all a heartache with your food habbits , your taste buds are quite strong so you want the perfect balance of taste ….nothing more.. nothing less , you like variety and you make faces for things which you like (I am assuming you like them cause you eat them)

Other than this my baby…You have made me and your dad from being a couple to a family and for that our baby gal we Love you to moon and beyond !!!

Letters to daughter

My dearest Duggu,

You have turned 8 months today and you are no longer my tiny chutku baby who I could hold with single arm.

I can never put in words how much I love you , the happiness you got into my life and how much you have influenced me …my perspective in these 8 months

Coming back from work and seeing your smile makes my day and keeps all the tiredness at bay

Being a working mother I know I miss a lot of your important high points in the day but I am assured that with your nani and dadi you are in the safest and most loving hands.

I know you miss me when I go to office every day which is why once I am back you don’t want to loose sight of me 

You sweetly listen to me and your father comparing you with all possible animals from puppy, cobra , frog and lately lizard with a smile  and forgive us for these childish talks

You have been patient with me while feeding especially when I drop poodles of food at every possible place.

You longingly see the outside world from the windows of living room and bursting to explore it on your own but tied up due to your tiny legs which are still learning to be on their own

You kindly let us experiment on you with the different food that we try to put in your mouth , the only time you get upset is when we try to overfeed you and you promptly show the displeasure by doing a “fur..fur” i..e spitting it on our faces in your own sweet way

You have lately learned how to pout while taking selfie , how you learned it is still a mystery for me but this art did earn you few admires on our recent outing.

Lately you seem to have decided that you have been on your back for long and it’s time to be on your feet, which why you dislike sleeping or doing anything which involves not sitting or standing

The only time we see you cry is when u miss your evening stroll, you are inconsolable that time and we hate to see like that which is why your grandparents ensure that you rarely miss your strolls.

This month on father’s day gift selected by you were loved by your dad, I think he liked that you call him your cool daddy!!

Your constipated tummy gives me heartache, especially over the weekends. Sometimes I feel you tend to metamorphose to a camel over weekend’s , storing everything in your tummy to be used over the coming week, without enabling any outlet. I hope this improves if not subsides over coming weeks

Earlier this month we introduced you to your crib, which was greatly resisted by you however now you seem to have made peace with it and let us keep you in it for some time.

My dearest baby I hope you the coming month brings you more joy and happiness, you venture more, learn more and smile most. Love you my baby..my mini-me.

Loads of love,

Your mother

Baby turns 6 MO !!

I have decided to do a quick recap of the last 6 months in spite of me wanting to document all these months in detail, time crunch does not permit me to do so, so here I begun!!!!!

Since B  came out of her infancy stage , I have tried to keep up with the monthly ritual of capturing her milestone and would do so (hopefully!!!) till she is a year old.

And yes…..I am not doing this for her , I am purely doing this for myself to keep my memories when she grows up and I grow old.

Being a working mother things have been difficult since now I have resumed office, my own mom was working however for a very long time I remember she would be home before I was back from school , so I don’t remember being away from her or returning to an empty home , so leaving B is is making me an anxious wreck even though my mom and dad are both with her so she is in far better hands than me. Still I guess this comes with motherhood….

• ·         Coming on to her monthly update she loooooooves squealing and making funny sounds like she has just discovered her voice (pun intended!!!!).
•  I     I am a very impatient person while hubby on other hand is epitome (I kid you not!!!) of patience so when I was carrying her I would keep on telling (rather ordering) her not to take my patience level…but looks like our little missy paid no heed to her mama right from womb and she is turning into one demanding baby.
• ·         She is usually an OK baby except for her sleeping patterns….i guess she feels like sleeping is a waste of time ……
• ·         As of now she  is a people friendly child she smiles when you smile at her but the thing that tickles her laughing bones most is someone laughing with an intensity of Rakshas …yeah loud laughing is really her thing!!
• ·         She likes sound of all creed and kind except honking so the first time I found her scared was when we took her to temple and she could hear honking loud as hell and their she was my lil scared monkey hanging tightly on my neck .
• ·         She just loves her massage time , though we has some issues when we started off with it but now she completely enjoys it !!! she is all excited to see her malish wali and wants her immediate attention
• ·         As of now her fav food is chiku, though we have tried a couple of other fruits and vegges ..chiku is what she mostly enjoys
• ·         All my household helps have to first mark attendance in  her maata ka darbar post which only they can resume their work , failing of this results in indefinite squealing and shouting
• ·         She loves siting in her pram subjected to it not being stationary, the only time it should be stationary is when she is moving out of it. Failing to do so results in numerous kicks and tantrums
• ·         She loves facetime with her grand parents , hubby has already predicted that she is going to be one spoiled grandchild as she is the only one her  maternal and paternal grand parents have in india.

I guess this mostly covers it!!! Till I start a new chapter!! Adios!!

Daughter Rises..

I haven’t been  writing for the longest time, so much has happened in these months that It will be extremely difficult and impossible for me to recap it all in a go.

I have a new person in my life who means the world to me. I don’t know if ever it will be possible for me to put down in words what I feel for this new person. Being an overly emotional person I have always felt very strongly for people dear to me, but this person supersedes all the depth of emotions I have ever felt. She came to my life right from the day I came to know I was expecting and since then she is all that (mostly) occupies my mind and life.

After having her I have realized the emotions my mother has for me and why sometimes she behaves the way she does J ( its moms love after all)

She is 5 going on 6 months and has already made hubby and me dance to her tunes. Hubby has predicted that she is going to be one pampered (we hope not spoiled) grandchild from both, maternal and paternal sides ‘cause she is the only grandchild both sides have in India so all the love that they have for the other grand children is also going to be lutaofyed on her.

I am due to resume office completely in some days and then I will have lesser time to spend with her, but I hope that I get enough time to capture her childhood in my blog .

As on these 5 months, she is her dads daughter, she use to get hyper active when hubby use to be back from office and at mid nite I could not sleep because my daughter was all up and kicking, now also she is usually up till the time hubby is back, even when she was 1 mo she use to get up listing to her dads voice much to my dismayWhen I was at moms place and hubby saw her after almost a month she gave him her most pretty smile, it’s a smile she reserves for her dad (only)

She is mostly an ok baby and like most babies her needs are simple dudu, pupu pipi and nennu on time, if she gets attention on all these on time she is ok else she makes sure to scare me with her incessant crying.

Yeah, when you have a baby the baby language becomes norm of the day and you start talking in most ridiculous way just so as to please your lil one.

Right now she is in a phase when she likes to roll-over but does not know how to roll back, she ha discovered the pleasure of shouting and has this phase from 8-9 when she squeals and screams her lungs out much to my horror and delights of neighbors.

Having her also has made me less judgmental (I hope)  on other mothers raising up their children because one important thing I have conculded is that every child is different so is every mother ,and not agreeing on their way to bring up children does not mean I am right or they are wrong

Nevertheless that’s all for now.