Dad’s baby May 27, 2009
Posted by preetischronicle in Little V, hubby.6 comments
Little V is on a Daddy craze these days. It all started with my husband leaving the city for work one morning before Little V could wake up and see him. Little V spent that morning generally feeling sad. He didn’ t even enjoy his bath that day. Carried a very sullen face to his day time care. And it kept me wondering what was wrong with him. I never thought it was daddy that he was missing. When his dad came back in the night, Little V was absolutely thrilled to see daddy. And he wouldn’t let him go out of sight. He wanted to be carried by daddy all the time. And he just totally refused to come to me! It was overwhelming to see that love between them. Hubbie was overjoyed, with all the lavish love Little V was throwing at him. He was crawling and following him where ever he went and the moment he could manage to reach daddy, he wanted dad to pick him up. I could see my husband’s eyes go wet with all that affection. Its so lovely to see a baby shower such unconditional love on us. Little V is a very affectionate child. I have seen kids, but I know there’s something very special about Little V in the way he shows his love to us. Little V greets every visitor in our house, whether a relative or a friend with lavish smiles and never cries out when they hold him. Of course, he’s not friendly in an instant and not so good if he’s sleepy. But if he can see that the visitors are known to his parents and if the guest has a gentle voice and maintains a fair distance from him initially, this boy will simply be all smiles, ready to show off his skills and share his toys. I totally admire this aspect of Little V’s personality, sometimes I find it very inspiring too!
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I can’t appreciate enough the day time set up that Little V goes to. It’s a system which works very well and by far is my best option. For those who do not know, Little V is dropped off by me at a home of an old couple, (in their 60’s, old but still very active), and his maid goes along with him. I pack all the food for him for the day. And there’s another baby who comes also with her maid. So the 2 babies, 2 maids and these 2 gentle souls, they spend the day together(they do not keep more than 2 or max 3 kids). The place is a ‘home’ just like our own homes are. Its nice and warm and just very very homely! They play with him, talk to him, watch over him and keep an eye on the maids. They are also very open to follow my details regarding his food, food timings, sleep timings, play areas and generally my idea of checking on him. They ensure he sleeps some pre defined hours. He’ usually crawling over the house and they happily move furniture to create more space for him to explore. And I can attribute some of his out going nature to his stay at their place. They usually have relatives visiting them. The place is also very very clean. The lady is a very typical god fearing, vegetarian, cleanliness freak, your next door sweet aunty types. When I go pick him up in late afternoons, the curtains are drawn and the place smells like wet earth and it makes me so drowsy too. It gives me loads of peace of mind, to know he’s safe, happy, cared for and ‘at home’. And there’s someone to watch over the maid too. Besides, they are willing to follow all that I say. They say they do not do it for the money, their kids are settled out of India and its the company they enjoy! They do not charge me much and also never complain if he happens to spend an hour or half an hour extra. When I grow old, I want to do this too, its a great way to keep oneself occupied!
ok, so much, now *anti jinx* to the post.
in a few days.. May 8, 2009
Posted by preetischronicle in Little V.4 comments
in the middle of June my baby will be a year old. Gasp! and I will be a mother of a one year old. I don’t seem to swallow that yet. Time flies by so quickly. And now I really want to hold on to this baby of mine.
About 15 days ago, Little V started to crawl. We were thrilled to see him crawl on his four. Shaking that little bum of his and going over all the place. Opening drawers, exploring door stoppers and enjoying being on the hard surface. I guess my baby is a little late to crawl. But I decided never to push him to crawl or worry about it. Every child has his own development scale and they all do things at their own pace. We must never push them. But of course they must have enough opportunity and exposure to take that initiative themselves and we must try not to sweat over it. He’s all over the place these days. At first, no matter where we left him in the room he would crawl upto me like a battery operated toy that always returns to the same destination, no matter where you left it. To say the least, it was flattering. He kept coming back to mamma for no particular reason 
Little V also recently started to sway to some of our own favorite music. When one of our most heard music is on tv, he pauses for a minute from his play to look up to the tv screen and starts to sway to that music. Have you ever seen a 10.5month old sway to bollywood music like ‘massakali’ or ‘kabhi kabhi aditi’, its particularly delightful! Otherwise, he is not particularly fond of the tv and doesn’t watch continously for more than 5 minutes at a go, hence we have the liberty to watch sometimes at a stretch. Usually we hardly switch on tv when we are at home. Sometimes, the entire working week goes by without us even switching it on. Weekends too we settle for some pre decided tv watching which comprises of mostly news and current affairs or music related shows that we are already aware of. These days Little V’s items of greatest interest are steel utensils of all shapes and sorts, his books and opening and closing cupboards. Steel utensils I think because of the different kind of sounds they can make when banged on different surfaces. With steel utensils he is also practising to use them the way we use them.
These days when I go to pick him up from his daycare, he leaves everything and crawls upto to me in no time and then explains his day’s happenings in his baby language – aaaee, ooo, taaa, itaaaa, ayyyy, aaata, naaah. He also points his fingers at random objects while saying all this. It almost feels like a conversation I am having with him and I am mostly nodding and making sentences about the things he points to. On our way back to home, I think he misses dad badly and keeps saying papapapapa all the time.
He’s also making effort to speak. He says the following words clearly and also knows what they mean – mamma, papa, dede, naeee(for no) and flabur(for flower) and tedi (for teddy) and says bye(instead of waving) to visitors when they leave. He also says kyahe (as in ‘kya hai’ meaning ‘what is it’), but he doesn’t know what kya hai means. And by the way he knows and remembers exactly where the plants and flowers are in the house and points to them from anywhere with ease. Oh little baby, we love you so much
my watches… May 4, 2009
Posted by preetischronicle in random thoughts, this is me.2 comments
have all stopped together at 4:10. Three of them. Pretty uncanny for me. I am not much of a watch fan (yeah! ask my husband), however over the years I have sort of amassed a collection. At the last count, I have about 9 of them. My first watch was a titan, and I was a school going kiddo at that time, the steel strap and the fancy dial was all too fascinating for me. And I wore that watch for quite a long time, well into my college years. As I started to work, I bought myself another fancy watch which became my favorite for about 2 years. I would wear it all of my waking hours and sleeping hours too. During my first job, the employer gifted all its employees a watch on diwali and that one became my hot favorite then. It was silly of me to have worn it even when not at work and to have felt proud to be associated with the big name that they were. As we dated and my then boyfriend(and now hubby) gifted me some watches and my collection just grew like that. So some were bought and others were gifted. In the past 2 weeks, I have had an unusual experience with my watches. I have lost one of these 9. And today morning I noticed, three of them had stopped with the time 4:10 on them. Is there some supernatural message or sign in all this that I cannot gather! like my time of death or something! quite creepy no!
Also, a few days ago, I almost lost another one of my watches. I wore it to a market, did my shopping and on the way back realised that the watch was missing from my wrist. Me and Little V then went back all the way to search for it, but it wasn’t there in any of the shops. Somehow, that day I found it lying right next to where the car was parked. No one picked it up from there. I was happy to have found it. Andd, now that I am doing this post, I recollect there is an old watch lying somewhere at home, which I haven’t worn in a year and I am wondering if its stopped at 4:10 too. Its the first thing I’ll check when I get back home today.
may be apun ka time kuch kharab chal raha hai !
