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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Latest Updates From Jelly's Kingdom

Every single day in this part of the world is a mad rush. Our day starts when our alarm goes off anywhere from 5am to 7am(the alarm – Jelly). I’ve never seen her wake up in a cool way, she always literally jumps and sits up as soon as she wakes up…………believe me it looks sooooooooo cute. She takes about 5 minutes to actually wake up. She sits and sways till she is wide awake (by which time I and SM would be ROFL)

Coming back to the updates let me list out “Jelly’s” developments in the 12th month.

Tooth: Jelly has sprouted 3 teeth, 2 on the upper jaw and 1 little stub on the lower jaw. She has learnt to use it quite well too. If we give her anything to eat she pushes the food with her tongue to the front where her tooth is and nibbles on it like a rabbit. And of course she has learnt to bite quite well too. The only scapegoat available for her is poor me (sigh!). The moment I reach home from work she clings on to my neck and give a good bite on my cheeks…

Vocabulary: She has added a few more words into her tiny list of words. The best for me being “Amma” which she does not use liberally, it’s meant only for those precious moments when she wants to get some work done from me (aaagrh!!!!). Calls her dad “Attha”, her grandpa “Appu”, at times for dog “Bow Bow”, for the crow “Kaa” .If she want something or she wants to go near something she tells “Baa”. The most frequent words she uses is “Adhu aaya” (for who is that or even for what is that)

Bath: She enjoys her bath unlike her earlier days when she would scream her lungs off from the moment we would apply oil to her till we pat her dry. Now the tables have turned and she starts crying the moment we take her out of her tub (sigh!!!!!!) She love to splash in her tub so much that at the end of her bath I look completely messy….

Food: The moment she sees her bowl of food, its hard to keep her doing what she has been doing till then. She needs to be fed immediately. But after a couple of spoons she rolls over and goes on to play. So now I strap her up on her bouncer for her feeds :D. She loves to have tit bits from what we eat. Totally relishes on raisins, biscuits, chips, pappads or anything else we eat. Her milk feeds have reduced and solid feeds have increased.

Physical activities: Let it be day or night, when she is awake or when asleep she is always moving around. She stands on her own for a few seconds and shakes her bootie to some catchy Bollywood numbers. Even when she is sitting she does this as soon as some peppy music starts playing anywhere in the background.

The development I enjoy the most is that she loves to be cuddled now (which she never allowed me to do till date). She lies down silently waiting for me to cuddle her, or tickle her tummy, or (when the devil in me wakes up) bite her chubby cheeks…………

That’s all with the news from Jelly’s kingdom.

PS: Posting will be off for more than a week as we will be off on a vacation. The rest of the news from this part of the world will be updated next year.

Happy Holidays !!!!!!!!

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Lost for words.....

I’m lost for words, how do I begin?

What is that I thank you first for? Is it for allowing me to be a part of your beautiful world? Or is it for all the love you have given and still continue to give? Or is it for the support you always given me for the decisions I make?

I still remember the day we first met……..Those beautiful days of college life…….when we became the best of friends in just a matter of days after getting to know each other. Our friendship grew to become a really mature relationship. You were that friend who would be able to read every single emotion on my face. It’s not that we spent the whole day together………just a few moments were enough for you to know what’s happening in my life.

It’s hard for me to tell even to this day when I fell in love with you my friend. I had a hundred questions going through my mind……..the most important being “Will I lose my friend?…….. if you came to know that I had started to love you to an extent where I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you”. I got the answer when our common friend S told me that even “my friend” felt the same.

The day I would never forget in my life came when you expressed your love for me. We were well past our college days but still I felt excited beyond words.

After 3 years of courtship we finally got married. Through the later 3 years (before “Jelly” arrived) I have been thoroughly spoilt by you. It’s not that it has been the rosiest relationship on this earth but these years has drawn us closer to each other. Every year seems to be increasing the love and understanding we have towards each other.

The reason I put these thoughts into a post is to tell you that I have started loving and respecting you much more during these 11 months. These 11 months from the day Jelly came into our life you have not only been a great father but also the best support I could ever get on this earth. You might think I’m getting a bit too formal with all this…………….But my dear SM I just want you to know one thing “Without your love and support I would never be able to be this ‘Sane person’ that I am, I would never be able to give Jelly all this time and love I’m able to give now”

Thank you my “Love “

Your all “mushy “wife (sigh!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Friday, December 7, 2007

A Letter For My Darling

Dear Jelly,

It’s been 11 months since the day I first saw you, touched you, and heard you…

11months, 335 days, 8049 hours, 482931 minutes, 28975841 seconds (and counting) and it just feels like yesterday (sigh!!!!!!). I can still feel your tender body in my hands, the way you looked at me for the very first time, the very first time you smiled at me. I never thought that I would feel so comfortable playing the role of your mother. It feels like I’ve been a mother all my life.

It’s not that every moment we have spent together were positive ones. There have been times when I was angry with you (especially the times when you would not sleep @ nights even though you were very very sleepy)..But I take this opportunity to thank you for making me a lady(a responsible one at that) from a girl with no worries, for making me more compassionate, more positive and most of all - filled me with so much patience that occassionally I doubt if this is really me ?????

I have been someone who did not like sleeping at odd hours (like an afternoon nap) and even during the nights, I never had deep sleeps. But from the day you were born I have started to realise the importance of sleep. I have realized that how we cannot have a normal day with just 2-3 hours of sleep in the night.

You have become a "Big Girl" now. You crawl at a high speed (shaking you little butt…which looks sooooooooo cute), you hold on to tables and walls and cruise along quite well. If we give you our hands to hold onto you take tiny steps and walk .You are able to stand unsupported for a few seconds. If you get to hear some peppy songs you shake your little head and butt and dance. You speak a few words; well coming to that you have been calling your Dad “Atha” for nearly two months now. If you want to go out you tell “Taaaata” or “Baa Puam

The cherry on the icing was when you called out loud and clear “Amma” just yeaterday, the day when you turned 11months old. What better gift could you give me on this day? You have been referring to everyone in different ways except me and you chose this day to call me Amma .I feel at the top of the world.

Keep growing like this, taking one day at a time ……….

Love

Your “Amma

Monday, December 3, 2007

A Walk Down Memory Lane..........Part 2(contd....)

I’m back with my "second month" updates…………..been a little busy….. Had a lot of places to explore in the kitchen, dining and dressing areas of the house…

Coming back to the updates - After a long and tiring bath the time would be right for a good nap and that’s when mom would go for her bath and grand mom for her daily chores. By the time they were done with their work and think about lunch I would start feeling hungry and cry out loud for my feed. From then on, I would love to be with mom, plenty of feeding and plenty of nappy changing work for mom and granny - hehe.

When mom would sit for her lunch in the noon I would feel a little left out as to why I have to drink only milk and they get to eat a variety of colorful things everyday. So again a reason for me to test the power of my lungs and this time I would not stop till she left her food and come to my side ;-)

Post lunch I would have a nap and that’s when mom would get a bad idea to take some much needed rest…….how can she think of something like that??????? So yet again am in my usual playful mood and would not allow her to sleep :D

Most of the evenings would go by in seeing a whole lot of new faces who would come to see me and mom and they would never come empty handed ……there was either some dress or toys or some accessories for me (yippe!!! mom never got anything). So many strangers came by and despite mom and granny giving a hint to them that I preferred being on the bed and would cry, they would carry me and I had no other other option but cry.

Night or rather late evening I would start feeling restless cause I knew that mom and granny would try to put me to sleep through the night and that’s something I just hated (actually I hate it even today). So both mom's and granny’s nights would be a flurry of activity of mainly trying to put me to sleep and get some rest……...Something, which they would not have got through the whole day. And the by the time they would have achieved this they would have lost their sleep (probably by 3-4 in the morning). I would be tired after the whole ordeal and have a very peaceful and deep sleep.

Hey I forgot to put in the best part of my day………when “Dad“ would drop in on the way from work and call me all funny sounding names. Oh!!!!!!!! I would just love those moments when I would just keep looking into his face and he would ask me how my day was……..Wish I could tell him how much of a havoc I created during the day and night for poor mom and granny. And above all how much I missed you “Dad “ through the day………….