March 2015 - Days are Running!

It feels like, I have not updated my blog since ages. But I am going to try catch up from where I left with whatever I remember.

So when your dad came home from the USA on 2 October 2014, he was so eager to see if you would go to him. Your brother had not seen him since he was 2 months old. So we were prepared for him not recognize your dad. But if you had not gone to him, I am sure he would have felt terrible hurt. But you didn't let him feel so. Surprisingly, it looked like you knew him forever. You had a lot to talk to him. When he last saw you in person, you used to hardly speak a few words and now you had a lot of catch up to do with your dad. You amazed him with your vocabulary and even weight to some extent. You wanted him to bathe you, you wanted only him to play with you and you wanted to sleep only next to him and he was content!

On November 3rd 2014, you started sleeping without me rocking you only leg. It was difficult to make this new revolution, but it has made my life heaven! Not anymore I have to have a weight on my lap all through the night. Not any more I have to sleep thought the night in a straight position with only dreaming of bending my knee for a few minutes and now I can actually bend my knee. You have even started taking longer sleeps at a stretch at nights without waking up more than 3 times a night. You even fall back to sleep without much effort and crying. It is not just helping me, but even you wake up with a happy face in the mornings. Even you sleep comfortably without constantly keeping a part of your mind awake to make sure that your mom doesn't keep you down! 

Your days go taking roles of other people at times. Your Govinda ajja started calling you devi chami and now you sometimes wake up with the devi chami role and want us all call you so all through the day! That day - devi chami eats, devi chami drinks, devi chami plays and devi chami goes for walks - not Aadya!

Now you know full lyrics of many songs like -uddaa baaninda boochu biddatthu, tinkal tinkal, aane aane, ding dong bell, haalalla ketthi, malli malli minchulli, and many more. Also you pick the lyrics in no time when you hear interesting new songs.

You are so innocently and cutely positive about your brother. If he hits you, you tell me that he is patting you. If he slaps you, you call it rubbing the cheeks. If he pulls your face, he is tickling you! And I hope your brother stops it soon before you realize the fact!

Havyakana language we speak at Jogibettu is different than what we speak at Bekur. We say 'madugu' at Bekur and 'idu' at Jogibettu. You coined your new term 'idugu' and use it at both the houses. 

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!