Vale, Vale.

My hubby gave me the privilege of writing a post in his blog, so I thought why not write something about him and Anushka. I went through my posts in my "private" blog and felt this was a special one to blog about. Then, Anushka was eight months old.

Dada playfully lifted you overhead and said, "Vale, vale. You started chuckling with delight and kicked your legs. When dada stopped, you kicked your legs even harder as if to tell him you wanted more. Dada then started saying, "Vale, vale. You gave out your loudest belly laughter. No words were exchanged but your actions were met with actions from your dad that told him that he got your message.

Though preverbal, but an amazing expressive kind of communication was going on between the two of them, just to beautiful that I had to write it.

Sonia

Vocabulary

So we started to count words that our toothless wonder (well now she has 2.75 teeth) can say and were surprised at the number, it was well over 40. Lets see how many I can recollect
mama, dada, ajja, akka, nani, nana, aashna
apple, onion, pepper, chapati,
tractor, car, bike
mine, wow, baby
eyes, ears, knees, hair, cheeks, nose,
hi, bye, where is it, out,
meow,
yes, and of course NO.

OMG She has discovered the word "No"

First of all, my apologies for the prolonged absence, thanks for keeping the faith and welcome back !

I had an epiphany today, I have those once in a while and when I do my day goes really well because I am convinced that I have realized something that is so simple and makes complete sense and yet most people have probably not thought about it. So today was one of those days, want to hear about it ? ok here goes..

In life we are always trying to do better, in our professional lives we train ourselves to be the best, exercise to keep ourselves fit (well most do), seek advice from experts on matters of health and well being, read books, talk to friends, etc the point is that we are always seeking information and training ourselves to do well. Yet, when it comes to parenting I am sure most parents don't spare a thought to seek "training" on how to be good parents. They simply rely on their natural instincts when it comes to parenting. Parents spend a great deal of time interracting with their kids, teaching them stuff, trying to control their behavior etc so doesn't it make sense that they get trained on how to be good parents from professionals in this field ? Shouldn't we learn more about parenting techniques and try to sharpen this skill ? And yet, I have not come across any Parenting Academy that teaches us more about how and why kids behave the way they do and how we should cope with it. So that was my "Hmm that makes sense, why does anyone not think about it" moment of the day.

My wife picked up the "Happiest Toddler on the Block" book and I began reading it today, currently on page 33 of 290, so still a long way to go but the author already has my attention. Atleast once on each page I go "Oh wow, yes Anushka does that", for example snatching things and saying "Mine !", classic Neanderthal behavior, the author says that children this age are like Neanderthals, or early humans. She has also developed a "fake" attention cry now, she actually looks pretty cute going "Ooo Ooo Ooo" with her frowned eyebrows trying to guage how her parents are going to react.

Anushka is getting cuter by the day, she is growing up too fast, displaying signs of being a toddler now and telling us "Mama, Dada, Ready or not here I come"...