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 !!!!!!!!