24 Januray 2013

Riya turned 13 months yesterday and what a shame I had forgotten about it. I have subscribed to a website who send me emails every month telling me about my baby's development. Only when I saw the email from them, I realised that it was the 23rd and Riya had turned 13 months. I have also not written in so long. Is it because I have not had time? I don't think so, I have just not been in the right frame of mind to write anything and enjoy it. It's been such a busy month with me getting back to work and trying to settle Riya at the nursery and with the nanny. Every week is a challenge. Though it's only 3 days I work, finishing those 3 days looks like a big task to me every week. It's been 4 weeks now and Riya's second week at the nursery.

I can't say Riya has settled well yet. I am sure it will take her a couple of more months to settle down and actually enjoy other's company. At the moment she cries a lot when dropped off at the nursery and I have left this tough job with daddy! I am not sure if I could do it. Not that it is easy for daddy though but he does it as he has no choice.  I try to sneak out before she wakes up but this week she has been very aware of me not being in bed. She wakes up as soon as I get out of bed and starts crying in her sleep. It's very hard to leave her crying like that and come to work. Yesterday it really got me thinking if what I was doing was right. I was doubtfull about my decision to get back to work.

But apart from all this hassle we still continue to have our dose of good times with Riya. She is now very interactive. She now has a new favourite rhyme 'Open , shut them, open shut them, give a little clap, clap, clap!  Open , shut them, open shut them put them in your lap,lap , lap for which she has learnt the actions and does it along with me. Another new skill she has learnt is dancing :). It might sound funny but she really does enjoy music. She moves her body front and back to go with the music beats when she is sitting down. She does that when I sing some rhymes to her as well. And to me all of a sudden she looks tall!

She kinda said her first sentence last week. She said 'orange juiceu ' or something that sounded like that :). She loves her fruit juices and Vaishakh was trying to get her to drink water telling her that it was orange juice. She took one sip and before the next sip she closed her mouth and shouted 'orange juice' :) making it very clear to us that she would drink it only if it was juice and not water ! She is very demanding these days. She uses her index finger to point out at anything she wants and if we don't give her the right think which she wants, she gets frustrated. She identifies a few animals like a dog, cat, rabbit, elephant and a tiger among her toys .

Riya attended her friend Meera's bday party last weekend and she enjoyed thouroughly. There was soft play and Riya had a lovely time playing. She happily walked around everywhere and looked like she was very proud of herself as she could walk around all on her own. She skipped her afternoon nap and played on until 4 when we left the party and within seconds on getting into the car she was fast asleep! Wonder how easy a kid's life is. Eat, drink , play and sleep . Yet it is so hard being a baby sometimes :).

9 Jan 2013

Riya is asleep in bed with daddy and am on my way to work. I planned to start early so that i can come back early but also partly because i cannot say goodbye to her and leave her at home. So i decided to sneak out when she is still in bed. It's a big day for her as its her first full day without me or Vaishakh with her. She will be at home with her nanny untill 5.30 in the evening. It is going to be very hard to concentrate at work.

Riya can now point to her nose, leg, hand and tummy and can also show you how to brush :). But she is soo moody that she does these only when she wants to do. She tries to do twinkle twinkle with her hands but she cannot open all the fingers together and close them on her own yet. It is soo cute when she tries to open all her fingers one after the other to do twinkle twinkle little star

She has now recovered fully from her cold, cough and fever and is back to being her normal self. Full of life and full of energy. Screaming at the top of her voice at home. I am so happy to see her like this. She was so excited to see Vaishakh back from yesterday for some reason that she laughed at whatever he did or said .

Riya had 3 bday parties this year and now is finally done with all the parties. The last one was on Sunday which went well. She enjoyed sitting on the bouncy castle while the older kids jumped on it. She was probably happy with the bouncing. But she didn't want to go to anybody who came to the party and wanted to stay with me or daddy all the time. When it was time to cut the cake she touched the cream and licked it :) and everybody laughed. She was very keen to touch the cake as it was her favourite character 'Minnie'. I only wished she was in the best of her health to enjoy the party but well we probably cannot plan everything with a kid around. Things are bound to change .