Week 41

17-23Apr2010
Your smile and laughter is a joy to watch/listen to. You burst into giggles at funny faces, peek-a-boos, rolling on the bed, when I jump, when we kiss you on your spine etc. You eat more solids and hence your milk intake has dropped. Your sleep pattern is changing and you like to be up longer and play endlessly.You like your vitamins and say 'unhh' i.e. give me more, you especially like your tiny chewy calcium pellets. You have been in pain :( this week as your lower tooth is making its way out. Your doc has suggested chilled teethers. Discovering our home for you means, crawling everywhere (including the kitchen and bathroom), holding on to every furniture and standing, finding for tingamachies and putting it in your mouth eghhh!!! We visited your Godmother and baby Audrey this thursday and you loved exploring their living room. You hijacked her toys and also had the audacity to kiss Audrey on her lips :))). She was zapped, gave you an EGH stare and wiped her mouth LOOL.
Your cousin Hannah lost her first tooth this week :) and your cousin Euan who is holidaying in singapore, suggests that you get there too ...because he loves Universal studio :D.

Week 40

10-16April 2010

You are officially a non-vegie today :). You've had Chicken everyday for lunch/dinner. I've also started giving you cereal for breakfast and you enjoy that.
You have invented your own games
1: You stand on the white chair(light weight) and rock it vigorously that it moves forward. I have to watch you closely at that crazy stunt!
2: When you sit on your pot you throw the duck/ ball/ring and make me pick it up a dozen times. If I do not fetch it for you, you take off to get it yourself and BHAM, you are off the pot.
3: When you've had enough of food, milk or water, you go pbrrr and spurt that out LOL, when I sternly tell you 'NO', you smile and go on and on, you think that's funny mister?? I laugh it out myself :)) when you do that.
4: You trow yourself down backwards..I think you like to see everything up-side-down!!

5: I put the finger puppets in your car box and you take them out when you finish riding.
You have various types of books, books with textures, some that make sounds, some that are simple and bright illustrations with minimum text. You touch every image to check if they have textures, you realise some do not have textures :). You especially like the typography, I wonder why!! When we are done with a story, you close the book look at the front and back cover page and then as a ritual, you shake it up to see if it makes any sounds :D! I must tell you that I know the story 'It's time for bed Snow Bear' by heart as we read it out to you every night before we put you to bed. You just love the part when it reads 'I want to dance with Hare' you smile and shyly say 'huaan'. Sometimes when I stop, you say 'huaan' ..like what next Mommy?

We took you to the sea shore last weekend as your story book 'Let's Go' had a surprise trip to the sea shore for the giraffe by the elephant. Now you smile at the word sea-shore :). Your U. Petvin recollects how he would make Avozinha tell him stories everyday at lunch hour, If she told him an already told story, he would refuse to eat LOL! I hope that I do not have to share that fate LOL! You also like to 'squeek' Suby's on the book 'It's Suby's birthday'.

This week your cousin Dina turned 1 and your U. Deepak and A. Arlette had a lovely birthday lunch party for her in Goa and Avozinha was there for the celebration. Dina was chirpy, waltzed with her uncle and took few steps. She looked adorable with her lil bunny tooth.

P.S - No photographs of you on the 15th &16 as mommy broke the camera.. :(. Thankfully we had another one :) but for that to function,U. Deepak had to pick up our camera charger from goa.

Month 9

3-9 April 2010
You are 9 months :) and you are all over the place crawling rapidly, holding on to any furniture and standing on your own. You are fearlesslessy attempting to cruise. You also leave one hand and balance yourself perfectly with the other. YES! you fall many times and hurt yourself..but there's no stopping. You say Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da when you lift yourself up. Towards the end of the week you tried to shift from one furniture to another at close proximity. We took you to the AL Ain Zoo to see animals, birds and automated Dinosaurs. Your A. Savitri carried a lot of toys and got the 3 of you i.e. Anika, Tia and you interacting with each other. You all were so tired at
the end of it that you'll slept it out. Your first Easter started out with a church service at 12 noon at St. Mary's and Daddy took us to ASHA BHOSLE's signature restaurant at Wafi. That evening we went over to Anika's home and she pelted you with kisses :D. Maria gave you a car and the funny thing about you that you move backwards, to the side...but you do not move forward :D. We have started giving you splishy-splashy time in the tub with toys just before bath and you love it. I have also begun playing with you and the palates ball, you throw a fit of giggles when you get rolling :D. .. It's interesting to watch you.You now go towards your feeder bottle when you are hungry, pull the cap out and suck the teat on your own :). This week you had your first splishy-splashy on the beach and you ate a lil bit of yummm mango.