There was thithi at home and your Kanichar ajji had stayed at home. She had worn a saree of your Usha ajji and after a few weeks, Usha ajji wore the same saree on their wedding anniversary and went to temple and came back before you woke up in the morning. Later she put that saree for drying and when you saw the saree hanging on the rope, you immediately said "where is Kanichar ajji? This is her saree here". We were amazed for your memory!
You wanted to try flying like a bird and you fell on the wooden hand of sofa and your nose bled quite a lot. It must had been really painful and the scar still exists after 9 months now. Every time someone asked you about the wound on your nose, you said " hakki haange haariddu, sofa adda banthu".
I was in a playful mood, cuddling with you, I said "Aanu ninna thinthe (I will eat you) and your immediate response with a pity expression was - "amma, hashu aavuttha? Ashana mum mum maaduva aatha?"
There is a particular dress of yours which you always called abibu angi since you were 20 months old. I new which is abibu dress, but I realized the meaning of it after almost a year, when your pronunciation became clear as "I love you angi". It had tiny hearts everywhere!
You had seen huge clown at Nettaru upanayana in 2014 February and got extremely scared of it though you wanted to see it again and again from as far as possible. I thought you might have overcome the fear. But in December, at your Kishan anna's upanayana, you were again terrified when your dad took you close to it. You often remembered the bombe for months after upanayana and asked a million questions about it always. It was there in the video your ashok mama took and you watched that video a million times even after that. You love the clown and know it by theory that it is harmless and yet you couldn't overcome the fear either.
A few days after seeing the clown, neighbour Jogibettu narayana ajja had come home one day. He is dark and tall. I dont know what made you think that he is a clown. As soon as he entered the house, you screamed that it is a bombe, cried and insisted to bring thamma inside, asked me to put him to sleep immediately to keep him safe from bombe. The situation was laughable, but I couldn't laugh for 2 reasons. One was that you were scared and I had to first calm you down and the other was, seeing this little protective sister, I was speechless!
You have got the habbit of wiping food from your mouth in your shirt while feeding. I told not to do so. And you said, "amma, neenu baayige hidseda thinnusuvaga"!
Your dad has brought a set of stalking game for you. I tried, but failed to teach you to keep it in order since you are still small for that. Your dad came in and said, " you don't know how to teach, wait I will teach her" and told you, "see this is the biggest and keep it first. Now this is the next biggest and keep it on top of that, and so on, now you try". You took a random cup and placed one on top of the other and dad said " alla puttu, it is small". You said "sanna ippadu matthe dodda aavuttu Appa, thamma dodda aayidilleya? Haange!"
Sometime both you and your brother laugh aloud together looking at each other for no reason. And it later turns to be a laughing contest and goes out of my control!
You have shared mom's lap between the you two - left for Aadya and right for Ani. He is never allowed to sit on your side of my lap!
You had been getting introduced to atthe most of the time with mava with them. Like - Divyatthe and Ashok mama, Shailatthe and Jai mama, Arpitha atthe and Ashwin mama. When you met Mala atthe, you immediately asked her, where is mama? It was before her wedding!
Your Jai mama and atthe came from the USA in February for Mala's wedding and their bags were full of toys for you two. You both loved them and still fight for them. Dabi dabi is the favorite and we enjoy watching you both swim and splash. I had hidden some toys for later and later you found all one by one.
We were busy talking and buying new clothes for Shreyas bava's upanayana. And you kept asking if you will have a upanayana too. We convinced you that only boys will have it and you have to do aarathi. One day I heard you asking our worker Vasantha, if he is going to have a upanayana.
We were at Jogibettu when Edapathya Chandra uncle came home to invite us for bhootha kola. Immediately after he left from home, someone else came in and you asked them, if they met bhootha (ghost) on their way. You had thought Chandra uncle himself is a bhootha!
You are already so eager to have your 3td birthday celebration which is still a few months from now. You don't remember the first two. You have ordered Vijayajji to get gifts for you like the one Masha (from masha and the bear episode) gets from Santa ajja on Xmas day. And you want chocolates inside. Ajji asked what gift she should give to your brother and said, "don't bother. I will give him sippe (chocolate wrap) from my gifts!"
You ask for something and if that can't be given then (like ice cubes before lunch) ajji tells you that is has got over, we shall ask ajja to get it from Pajapalla. Now you think that everything in the world is available in pajakalla! (You pronounce pajapalla as pajakalla).
We have a few times hidden things from you (like harmful objects) and told you kaake tekondu hothu (crow took it away). And we were dumb enough to think that you believed it until the other day when Ani asked you for something, you hid it behind your leg and told him "kaake thekondu hothu thamma!"
Shailatthe keeps humming songs when she does some work and you had noticed it. I realized that when one day, there was an instrumental song playing and you said "oh! This is Shailatte padya".
On the way to Jogibettu, we pass a rubber factory and it stinks bad all the time. Several times you had asked about the smell and now every time you smell something bad, you call it rubbery factory. Including your own fart, you say, "see, I made a rubber factory"!
For your food, sleep, toilet and bath - both you and your brother are completely dependent on your mom and you don't let anyone else do that for you.
You carefully watch what they do to cars in petrol bunk. There was a spare wheel behind your toy car and after it got broken, there was a hole left on that place. You started searching for a straw for that and I wondered what a straw has to do with that. When you found one, you inserted it into that hole and said, your car is thirsty, needs some petrol to run!
We bought a new plate stand for kitchen and as soon as we reached home, you brought all your dolls and pet toys and made them sleep on each shelf! It turned to be a bunker bed until it was fixed in the kitchen the next day.
After you saw fairies wheel in your video songs, when dad brought you a farm toy set, you used the tree stem, leaves and animals and made fairies wheel instead of what it was for. I was much happier for your creativity.
On April 2nd, you wanted to be called 'Aadyamma' the entire day. You also had 2 babies to take care the whole day. And you even took bath yourself! And the next day, you were Johny and the day after, you were Mary! You keep correcting us if we call you Aadya by mistake on the days you take someone else's part!
You keep comparing things to what you know. When you saw a new brush I bought to wash your bottles, you called it a Xmas tree.
You don't really like sharing things with your brother unless you are in a very 'good sister' mood. So usually you keep trying to make plans and tricks to avoid sharing things with him. But you also know that good girls share. Few days ago, there was a packet of balloons and you really didn't want to share any. So you opened the packet in advance and noticed that blue balloons were not there. You came to me and said, "amma, I will give blue balloons to Ani" and took out balloons one after the other saying "oh! It's red, not for Ani, now this is green, again not for Ani, see its yellow, so its mine Ani" and finally told "Ani, there is no blue, so I can't give you any"! And Ani was still waiting for you to give him his share and he was still confused about the reason for not getting any balloon!
Blue is always reserved for Ani when you share things and you yourself have made that rule. May it be a packet of gems chocolate or your toy kitchen set or play dough! Blue chocolates are for him and the rest for you, if there was only one blue and 9 other color chocolates, it's not your mistake. If they wanted you to give equal share, they had to put more blues while manufacturing the chocolate packet!
I don't know how long it might work, but right now you enjoy each bit of big sister position. If you have to give him a toy, you don't hand it over to him, but hold it as high as possible and make your brother jump for it! He is still small to jump since he just started walking steadily is the only problem.
You and your brother, both watch video songs while eating your food and that helps me finish feeding you both withing half an hour, at the same time you enjoy the song and empty the plate as well. The other day, while watching the school bus song, you asked me whether all the kids in the bus are looking at you (Aadya). I said, no it is just a song in the laptop and the people in the laptop can't see you. And you immediately asked me, "then how Jai mama and Shailatthe see me while we do video chat?" I had not expected that coming, had to take time to make my reply and showed you the hole on top and told you that was the camera through which they see. It looked like, you were not satisfied with what I said and still had doubts. You just kept quiet and I tried explaining it again, but don't know if I really helped you understand.
Aniket -
You want ammi for everything like if you are in pain, you want ammi, if you are hungry, want ammi, if you are sleepy, wantammi, if you want to play, ammi becomes even a toy, if your teeth are itchy, ammi becomes a teether, if you are bored, ammi is for time pass, if you want to do thaachi, again ammi is what helps you! I am so dead worried about weaning!
On March 16th, I noticed that you have completely stopped crawling.
You pronounce words with the sound of their second syllable. For example, thantha is actually bantha, diddatthu is actually biddattu. Chochi is thochi.
On 27th march, you used toilet for the first time. We all were happy and clapped for you. You did it again on 29th, 31st, April 1st and then it was regular and now you use only toilet and no diaper poop anymore.
Your temper tantrums seem difficult to manage. Though now it is just too cute to see when you get angry, you seem quite stubborn and I worry that it might get harder to calm you down in the years to come when you get angry.
Thats why, though I didn't mind nursing you for a few more months, the earlier I stop, the better. When I think of weaning, I do know that I am going to miss the closeness with you and the cuddling. You are just too cute to stay away. And because I am the one to nurse you, I feel luckier to get more of those wet kisses and hugs compared to anyone else in the family.
Weaning was easier with your sister because she was just 10 months old then and you are 17 months old already. Demanding to nurse you the entire night which is giving me back aches!
So we brought a sticky black utterly bitter ayurvedic medicine called 'rakthavala' to apply, so that when you get the bitter taste, you voluntarily wean. Because no other ways where working and you cried your lungs out every time we tried to put you to sleep any other way than nursing.
That particular night all of us were prepared to see you cry and have a sleepless night for everyone. We had waited for a proper day to this. There was Shreyas bava's upanayana coming up on May 22nd and we waited for it to get over and immediately after the function you had fever and we didn't want to make you cry even more. So now since it seemed like the right time, I applied it after my bath at night. We allade sure that you ate dinner and drank milk well, since you were not going to get even breast milk later. Finally when you were sleepy, I took you inside to the bedroom to put you to sleep and all others were quietly sitting outside to hear the result. I nursed you, and you immediately pulled out your mouth, licked your lips with a strange look on your face, stayed that way for a few seconds and told me, "uppunkayi" (uppina kayi - pickle) and continued to nurse. I expected another 'pull out', but nothing happened and you happily nursed like always and went to sleep!!! Others who were eagely waiting outside, waited some more, didn't hear any cry and finally your ajji couldn't control the curiosity anymore and came into the room to see what was happening and you were happily sleeping on my lap! We all had a big laughter later and at the same time, wondered how in the world are we going to make you wean now!?
I have been saying words like jaayi, jeeji, donda, daadi since your sister was born and worry what if I permanently end up using only these words for the rest of my life!
There are two new words your sister created - pil pil (diaper) and dabi dabi (bath) and even even use these words like they are real words. So everyone in the family know the meaning of these words and also we all use them regularly! All thanks to your sister! I really don't know what made her create these two words.
You had slight cold and it made "grrrr grrrrr" noise when you breathe. You quietly listened to it for some time and asked me "car start aatha?"
Aadya first day school June 4 on ajja's bday for almost 45 mins. Enjoyed well. Asked teacher jaarubandi elliddu? Said teacher ucchu battu. Didn't let amma take her to the bathroom.
Aadya - see here is a lid (hokkulu)
Aadya - thamma has beela in front.
Aadya suddenly woke up from sleep crying 'kai Hera haakutte'.. Thamma came on her way while she tried stretching her hand.
Ani knows names of colors. But doesn't know the meaning.
Aadya started school at Bekur on June 9 (2015)
Aadya keep balloon inside shirt, eat banana and believe balloon grows.
Ani vaccination 10 July 2015
Ani cries that I don't let him switch on off the lights 10 times a second, cry that not allow to rub CD on floor, cry for not letting pluck aunties flowers, cry for not letting drag cycle on the ground upside down, cry he wants to run on slippery yard, cry that he wants to paapa maadu chorante, cry to spill milk on bed, cry to mash flowers.
Ani is 4 and Aadya is 5 Years old :
Aadya : Ani, illi baa. Enna baabeya rajja thotlili thoogu. Enage urgent ucchu maadi bappaliddu.
Ani : enage eega bappale ediya
Aadya : yaake?
Ani : yaake helire aanu eega Chennai li iddu
Aadya : hangare aanu kopa. Tu tu tikki tu, alambady gate.
Ani : hangare ninna hesaru innu kunde heli
Aadya : appa.....Ani kolakku maathaadtha
Ani : naale aanu teacher hathra heluve, adara hesaru eega aadya heli Alla. Eega adra hesaru 'kunde' heli.
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