Ouch again

Fell down with  lips bleeding and chipped tooth. We drove down to Chennai after lunch, with the boy going “Bha bha” each time he saw a bus on the road. He did not want to get back in the car when we stopped for dinner.

Once we got there, he was cranky during night insisting on the wife rocking him to sleep and refused to come to me.

Movie time...flopped

We watched PK last night with the boy at the nearby mall. He was in awe of the lights, the big screen and the people. Initially he moved up and down to the music from the trailers before the movie, sitting in my lap. As the movie started, he got restless and I took him out. The rest of the movie was mostly that. I was out with him for the first half and the wife in the second half. He feasted on the pop corn. The boy showed no signs of sleeping. We got home and he was out in 2 minutes flat.

Shivers and tantrums

The wife woke up shivering yesterday. Surprising the boy seemed to understand that she was not well and was  quiet, opting to sit in the bouncer. The 5 year old Ah and the boy had a fight over a pencil. The boy can scream, scratch and can whack Ah on the head. In the night he wanted the glass water bottle, the bottle of cooking oil and when I said no, threw a tantrum and tossed the chapattis on the floor.

2 steps

The boy took 2 steps unassisted!

A the Nanny

bunked today. Thanks to B, who volunteered to take the boy with her for some time, I was able to finish making lunch. He threw a huge tantrum when I took the way the baby soap from him in the bath tub. Cried for nearly half an hour and he had forgotten why he was crying in the first place. It was a mix of sleep and hunger. The boy slept on the way to pick up the wife from the train station.

Food and football

The boy has learnt to pour the water from the feeding bottle into its cap and drink from it. We mostly let him eat on his own – seat him on the dining table with the plate in front of him. It is a mess with the food on him, around the plate and even in his shirt pocket. He can eat with both his hands but is so scared of biting his own finger that he puts the food deep in his mouth and immediately takes out his finger.

So we were in my wife’s cousin’s home last night watching the final of ISL and sipping Captain Morgan when the boy took a fancy to the glass and the color of its contents. I kept the glass away but his pestering increased. Eventually I caved in and gave him the last sip and he wanted more. Gave him one more drop and he wanted more. That night he got up only once for the feed! Good smooth stuff.

Surprisingly repeated what Ah and Aa’s father said – “You go”. It came in a flash.

Gooti Gooti Ga!

Something that the boy picked up. A major hit with Aa and Ah.

Ouch!

The boy was very excited crawling in the play area sand. Soon the excitement got the better of him, he slipped and went face first into the sand, hurting his lip. Wailed a bit and he was fine.

He can reach the TV now, grabbing the TV stand and standing up. The boy also figured out how to open the CD cupboard and pull the CD's out.  

Recently he has started disliking rice, eats only the vegetables. On the bright side he drinks milk (bottle-feed) daily in the morning. His patience is very low – when it comes to hunger, it has to be instant gratification. 

Metro ride and a birthday party

Last Saturday the boy went on his second Bangalore Metro ride to buy a birthday gift at TOYS N TOYS, Indira Nagar. He was curious and wide eyed. The huge station, the arriving train, and as we sat inside and the door closed he wanted to be taken outside. Once the train started moving, he stood on the seat and looked outside through the large glass window.

The birthday party was at 630 in the community hall. The children were running around screaming and when each of them were given a pipe, the noise levels increased. The boy ate pop-corn and munched on the Smiles. Once he saw a bunch of them, he wanted a new one after each bite. Put him down on the floor and he set about wiping it clean. The boy ate mostly junk and not much of it with the result that he ate 2 dosas for dinner and wanted more.

Standing on his own

It has been 8 years of married life and the boy chose this day to stand on his own, unassisted. He was in bed ready to sleep when he decided to be supremely active. He hunched and slowly got up, stood and fell backwards, all smiles! And when we clapped, he did it all over again, 5 to 6 times.

Of course, we had to clap each time.

Dine out

Last night we went to Daddy’s Deli / Red Fork for dinner with the sweet couple AA. The boy had a little bit of everything – Lassi, Mezze Platter, Rotlis, Dhai Beeda. The dessert kept him high for most of the night – Apricot Brandy Ice cream. A nice contemporary place with good food (including Parsi cuisine) and service.

Blanket and more words

For the first time the boy asked for a blanket. He has taken a major fascination to cleaning the floor and the clothesline clips . He does pronounce some of the words “potata”, “applaa”, “banana”, “bititha”, the last one for biscuit. There is this new word “kitha”, he keeps saying often, I am not able to figure it out. He knows where the moon is. Still very clingy to the wife in the nights and his patience is very thin when he is hungry.