Rishab 37 Weeks - Papas first kiss - At Vivocity

This week was quiet good for DS(Darling Son) Rishab. It started with him learning how to slide. Well its funny but my baby can actually slide down the slide unassisted and all by himself. We will place him at the start of the slide, he will then turn over his on his stomach and come down the slide. Once he reaches the bottom of the slide he will go further down to reach the ground and stand up. He loves it.

Nowadays he has become very good at playing football. He will kick the ball and run(we hold him) and drag us along. Its quiet an effort for us but he makes it seem so effortless.  He has learnt to give a "hifi" to his family and how he loves it.

One the eating front he is eating most of the natural food and is quiet a good baby. The practice of putting him in the walker still continues.. so that he digests some of his food... only difference is now he has mastered the walker so well that he races like a bull towards the person calling him. And if his walker happens to hit any of us that would mean a very bad hurt. One thing that continues to be an effort is making him have juice...Nani will get juice for him twice, once in the morning and once in the evening and however sweet or however delicious the juice is.. Rishab will refuse it. We have to distract him to the maximum to have juice. He will sometime have it when he is in the walker and sometimes when he is lying down and seeing the ABC phonics song on the internet. (The last option used to make him have juice).

This weekend we took Rishab to for another outing. All of us got ready and papa dear put on a good perfume so after Rishab got ready he kissed his father .. for the very first time.. and that to 3 or 4 times.. and it was a sight I still cant forget. He obviously cant make a sound when he kisses.. but he will goto the person and open his mouth... thats his way of kissing. We proceeded to Vivocity - a shopping mall with babies play area. This area has slides and small fountains and some remote operated cars for babies to sit and enjoy. Initially Rishab was scared to go into water but once he showed him how to splash water he enjoyed it sooooo much that he did not want to come out. He got wet from top to bottom and enjoyed each and every moment. He was walking and crawling all over the place. There was a hush puppies shop and a big dog poster there. Rishab posed with the dog thinking it was a real dog. It was very funny.

           
Its a pleasure to see him express and enjoy himself. Feels like even after writing this blog.. I still cant capture all of it... Some moments will still remain just a memory which I cant capture in this blog. I just love my baby sooo much... waiting for new things Rishab will do this week. See You !!

Rishab at 36 Weeks - At the Park

Another fun-filled week with Rishab. Starting with the weekend, we went with Rishab to a hospital to visit a friend who delivered a baby. Its worth wondering what could be interesting about a hospital visit... but for Rishab it was a grand outing. We traveled by the MRT and the bus to reach to the hospital and Rishab was too dazed to see the escalators on the stations go up and down. He was staring at all the colourful posters along the walk through the station. Once we reached the hospital he was so dazed to see the wheelchair. Passing through the long corridors of the hospital was a like the best part of the outing.He was so excited that he was making the donkey noise(thats what he does when he is excited).

Well the next day .. Sunday.. was another interesting day!! Since we have shifted house we went to visit the West Coast Park near our place. It turned out to be a pleasant surprise for us too. The place had 2 adventure parks one for older kid and one for the younger ones. Besides this there were lots of people flying kites.. and here in Singapore the kites are huge and in different shapes like dragons and owls. Since this park is near the sea there were also lots of ships docked nearby. Rishab has a gala time at this place... He loved to sit in most of the rides (which were permitted for his age). He also met Caucasian twin baby girls.. Robin and Eva who were playing in the sand.. They were about 15 months so I made Rishab sit next to them and they started pouring sand on him. Poor guy he sat through it but did not enjoy the sand being poured on him. Next we proceeded to show him the ships and the sea and guess who we met there - a 13 month old chinese baby girl... and rishab is so naughty he just wanted to touch the girl but the girl was too shy and hid behind her daddy. He basically had a great time socializing with other babies.

The remaining week has been spend mostly in house because of the change in weather. Its too rainy nowadays to take him anywhere but nevertheless he has picked up a new game.. football. Papa dear got him a big ball this week and how he loved to kick it and then run behind it.

Another game he loves to play is rolling the rings on the floor and catching them. We roll the rings (big plastic ones) on the floor and how he crawls behind them to catch it ..  a sight not to be missed.

Well things are going good as of now.. lets wait and see what happens next week.

Rishab at 35 weeks

I was unable to write last week as I was very busy both with office work and with Rishab. First time Rishab had fallen ill with fever and cough and cold. Though it was not so serious he was quiet uncomfortable the whole week. This was mainly because of the change of place (we shifted recently to a new place) and change of climate.

Well now baby is back with a bounce, he turned 8 months today. The last 2 weeks have seen a lot of developments in Rishab. He has become more vocal, babbles a lot in his baby language and has become very expressive. when he doesnt want to eat more he will seal his lips like fevicol.

We introduced a new play mat this week and we have observed whenever we introduce a new thing for Rishab he will experiment further. we introduced the mat with the intention that he will crawl and while sitting it will act as a cushion if he falls. But baby Rishab had something else for us in store.... the moment we put him on the mat he tried to stand up. Well now he uses crawling very rarely only if he has no option left otherwise he will always try to walk and get hold of things.


He loves to slide down on the slide in the park and he has become a professional in climbing steps. He can also now hold thing in both his hands and bang them. He does it mostly with his nanis bangles as they make a tingling sound and he loves it.

This week we also introduced some normal adult food for him which he enjoyed.. such a relief that baby likes something besides cerelac. Well Rishab has also learnt how to play catch and cook. In between his dinner we need to push in some activity so that the food goes down and he burps a little. His papa started this game with him. He put him in the walker and started running and rishab also ran behind him to catch him. they both run from one room to the other and how my baby laughs when he play this game is worth a watch https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XW2mWZxD1Rk/T21MDLP_n8I/AAAAAAAAHQM/hY1-kXy5TXI/w223-h167-n-o-k/00026.mpg

Rishab is also very attracted to girls... we have noticed this.. He will kiss the baby girl on the magazine cover and watch all chinese girls without a blink. He will also kiss his mummys photo but when his nana asks him to kiss he will not give him a kiss... He already know the difference.. so cute!!

One the bad front he has started hating to take bath. He will try to stand and turn around and do all kinds of acrobatics to avoid bath. How sad!! a baby who loved bath is now hating it. well as parents we had to try something news to avoid the everyday bath drama. So we kept a small stool in his tub. He now atleast does not do as many acrobatics while having bath. i guess he has taken this from his dada(paternal grandfather). His dada also takes bath sitting on the stool... so here we can see some similarities between the dada and pota (grandson). Next week we are planning to introduce a swimming pool for him... will write about his reaction next week.