Chronicle of my life, times, this n that

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