Chronicle of my life, times, this n that

Little V took 2 little steps yesterday! This is @ 13.5 months. He’s also effortlessly cruising with his hold on walker (its not the sit down walker), maneuvering it quite well and even using just one hand to move it along. So the baby is almost walking. Sometimes, I sit back and wonder which was the best phase of my baby and every month seems to be really the best one!

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I had some very tough days lately with Little V’s day care arrangement getting upset, the old couple became grandparents and left to be with their daughter in the UK. However, I have learned that every problem actually has an opportunity somewhere. We saw some day care facilities and nothing really pleased us. What could match up to the lovely home Little V was going to.   I was lucky to be allowed to work early morning hours and I work from 7am to 3pm and Little V’s dad work  until late evenings. This has worked out really well between us. Both of us are getting to spend a lot of time with Little V. Infact he has atleast one of us for most part of the day. I take him out everyday on his bicycle and he’s made several friends around our block. The only downside of this is the impact this has on my sleep. I have been sleeping very little. Since Little V and his dad dont need to wake up early, the house goes very late to sleep and I am the one who wakes up early and then has the entire day lined up either at home or office.  I finish my housework when little V takes his afternoon nap, and in a way get to spend more time as a couple too! In my earlier set up I would spend all my available time with Little V and do my housework when his dad would be back.

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Little V is speaking many words now and even attempted speaking calculator calling it ‘cal..tor’. If I sing rhymes, he imitates the sound and the tune if he can’t say the words.  And he’s developed a fancy for cars, and loves to point out to every single car on the road  and say ‘cah’. He can identify cars in cartoons, books, movies, any tv show with ease. He also loves pointing out to buses on the road and speaks up ‘bah’ on seeing one. Truck is not all too familiar with him though he’s quick to say ‘guck’ when he sees one. ‘Bah’ is being used for bus, balloons, blocks, baarish, ball and its now upto us to point out the right one when he says ‘bah’!

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August is a month of many birthdays. We’ve been invited to several kiddie birthday parties and I am all too excited to take my baby at each one of them since he enjoys birthdays now. Looks like the festive season will be here very soon. Yeah! life will be busy and thats how we like it!