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 :).