September 2015 - Until akka's Birthday!

On July 10th you had your next set of vaccination. You liked to play with the weighing scale when we were waiting for the doctor. And you cried quite a lot for the pain of injection and later got a light fever as usual and cranky the next day.

You have reached that stage now. You cry for a variety of reasons and give us a hearty laughter though we can't laugh in front of you. And it makes it even funnier when your sister tries to explain you why such things cannot be done. So here comes the list -

You cry that I don't let you switch on and off the lights 50 times in a minute.
You cry that we do not let you rub music CD on floor.
You cry for not letting you pluck flowers from veena aunty's garden.
You cry for not letting you drag bicycle on the ground upside down.
You cry that you want to run on the slippery yard.
You cry that you want to pat chorante to sleep.
You cry that you want to spill milk on my bed.

You cry that Aadya doesn't let you bite her finger.
You cry that dead earthworm should walk.
You cry that you cannot cover yourself completely in a handkerchief.

You cry that there is an end to the bed when you run on it.

You cry that your feet don't get lifted when you try to jump.

You cry that you can't lift the bucket filled with water.

You cry that you can't successfully drink with straw yet, while your sister can.

You cry that your dad only pretends eating your play dough candies, but doesn't actually eat them.

You cry that your chapathi sticks to the lattanige.

You cry that you don't want clothes and in the evening cry that you don't want to take them off for bath.

You cry that you don't want to go for bath, and later cry that you don't want to stop bathing.

This list never ends. And also the list of unusual things that make you laugh.

You laugh aloud when the situation is serious. And most of the time when we warn you not to do something.

On 17 July 2015, you started riding on bike alone with ajja. You happily sit in front without anyone holding you and think that you are the one riding the bike when you go and get milk in the mornings.

19th July 2015 was the last day I breastfed you. Since 20th July, you are independent. I had to apply 'rakthavala' once again. And this time vaidya gave a more intense one. It looked even darker and much more bitter. You anyway didn't taste it at all. I applied it during the day and when you came for nursing, you immediately pulled your head back terrified with the black color! I had to lie saying 'amma has got booboo (pain)' and this is the ointment. You took another look at it, shook your head with disgust and cried with fear. Your sister too came running to see what happened. If it was only you, I didn't have to explain any further. But since your sister saw it, I had to to then answer hundreds of questions. Tried to tell her that I lied to Ani about the pain to stop breast feeding. But she is still small to understand two contradictory statements if I tell one for Ani and one for her. She gave the confused look and asked another bundle of questions and I gave up the idea of telling the truth to her. Stuck to the lie that I have pain and applied ointment.

You were sad, didn't say a word and slept on my lap without any complaints. After you woke up, every 15 minutes in between your play, you looked at my chest and asked me with a heavy moist voice, amma is it hurting. I said yes my baby. My chest didn't hurt even a bit, but my heart terribly ached for your innocent, genuinely concerned question and the way you kept stopping your desires not to hurt amma! Hard to believe that you are not even 2 with this kind of empathy. I had to fight back my tears most of the time and sometimes wipe it away before anyone noticed me and thought I was silly.

I washed bathroom one day and you came to me and exclaimed, "Abba! Entha male baindu illi!" (Oh! What a rain!?) Because you saw the floor wet and had heard us talk so when there was heavy rain.

You saw a helmet and said "toppi" and Aadya said immediately "no, not toppi thamma, it is called a helmet"! So you have a teacher right with you for the rest of your life. She is already into the job and has taken up the responsibility!

Appa has bought play dough for you and your sister and it is all time favourite for both of you. You usually get bored of new toys within a few days, but the interested in play dough lasted for so many days and you still play happily with it. 

Soon after you left mom's milk, one night you wanted to hold your Vinnie the Pooh while you went to sleep and you asked for it again when you went to sleep the next day. I was happy that you might start sleeping without much struggle here after holding the Pooh. But there was only one Pooh at home and we knew, the more you get attached to it, your sister too might fight for it even more. So as soon as we saw the sign of you liking it, your dad immediately bought another new Pooh online. But the interest lasted only till it got delivered to home and as soon as there were 2 Poohs, none of you played with any of them any more!

One day, your Jogibettu ajja was giving you your breakfast and you started eating in a great speed. He told you not to hurry, gadibidi ille, eat slow! And all of us forgot it. The next day morning, ajja saw you playing with your food and told you to eat faster. And you told him, "gadibidi ille........"!

For us now it is an old thing to come across people every now and then, who get amazed with your speaking skills and vocabulary. Be it a shop or hospital or a function, every where we get to meet people who watch you talk for sometime, listen to your correct pronunciation, complex sentences and your contradictory size, get surprised, come to us and ask for your age. When we say you are 1 year and 9 months old, they compare you to their near ones and tell us my son / grand daughter of his age barely talks a few words! May be he / she is slow in talking. We console them saying, no they might be growing fine and Aniket is little faster to his age.

Chips and other junk food are always your favourite.
You love to make your own lyrics and to the existing songs, you add your own words to the forgotten parts! Like for example "Jack and Jill, went up the hill" is "Jack and Jill, guddege hothu" in your song. "Daddy finger daddy finger, where are you?" Is "Appa finger Appa finger" in your song. "Wheels on the bus go round and round" is the song you never get bored of and have hundreds of lines added to it by you. Like "Ani ya bus is blue and blue, all day long", " Sanna bus says peem peem peem, all day long", "Bus ina baagilu open-koch, open-koch, all day long", " Akkana bus su mele-kela mele-kela, all day long" and so on.

You have a good sense of humor already and make silly jokes according to your age! Also, at times you know to crack a joke, wait for others to laugh first and then join them in laughter!

You are utterly stubborn in many things, you don't compromise your rules in any situation. The other day when we reached home from Mumbai, we all were tired after a long journey, I was thinking of giving you both a quick bath, feeding you lunch, putting you both to sleep and then do all that to myself too and get some rest. In that particular thing in my head, I quickly gave you a bath, wiped you, wrapped a towel around you and carried you to the bedroom without thinking of anything else. You cried your lungs out screaming to take you back to the bathroom. I thought you wanted to play in water and tried to distract you. I had forgotten that rule you had made before going to Mumbai that, after bath you want to walk yourself to the bedroom. I had forgotten it in 2 weeks, but you had not! So finally you guided me still screaming to the bathroom, wriggled yourself, got down, held my hand, proudly and quietly walked till bedroom!

Now you can correctly recognize colors and know most of them. Though blue is pronounced as buloo, red is ded, green is geen, brown is bown, black is back.

You did enjoy the train journey when we went to Mumbai. But after late evening, you didn't feel comfortable, wanted to sleep only at your house and only on your bed. You kept telling us to get down from the train and let's go home in appa's buloo car. Once you fell asleep after a lot of crying, then you didn't wake up until morning and you were very happy to get down from the train the next morning. At Mumbai, though you liked to play in the play area and loved the swings, each and every day you asked, if we can go home that day. Every time you saw a wagon R car or blue car, you asked if we can sit in appa's car and go home. You enjoyed akka's birthday celebration and loved the cake. After 3-4 days you started telling, going by train is fine and lets go by train and then by appa's car to reach our home. So finally your return train journey was good and you were jumping with happiness when you finally saw home!