Rishab is surprising mummy and daddy!!!

Lets start with Rishab's biting progress, oh my sweetypie has progressed well... very well. Starting with Chapati , to aloo paratha to sweetpotato potato paratha and today methi & sweet potato paratha.. and finger chips in addition to biting his food he is doing great!! the 8 teeth he is getting are releiving me from the 10 month stress I was under (griding food). Today I really feel like thanking God for our teeth!! I might sound stupid but the relief and pride I sense today cannot be explained in words.

His language is growing by leaps and bounds daily.. Sometimes we feel we are talking to an adult. He speaks full saentence now likew "Mommy pick up car" "please excuse me " "Rishab dont want this one " "Rishab go down" "old mac donald has a farm eeya eeya oh" " jingle bells jingle beel jingle all the way ohh wat fun it is to ride.... " Its fun to hear him sing rhymes.

He also replies to questions "what is your name ?" "Rishab Vala" " what is mummys name ? " "Priya" " what is papas name ?" "mrugesh"( not so clear though) "what building number do you stay?" "412" "where does mummy work?" " Where does papa work?" "What does beena chachi do?" "Where does Parry chacha work?"

This week i also saw him zoom his car and it really travelled a long way through.. I was wondering on the wonderful journey of  my chid who at six month never knew which side to place the car to make it moove forward... to learning to place his car on th wheels... to pushing it slowly... and now making it zoom and slide down from the sofa... Seems simple to us... but for a child it is an accomplishment which he can be proud of. Rishab mommy an Papa are also proud of you!!  Love you .

Coming back to the cooking stuff... i am so delighted with the thought of all that i can try!!! Simply too excited!! So many ideas.. Cheese paratha.. omeltte.. bread jam .. bread butter.. carrot paratha.. chicken nuggets.. aloo tikki...i am flooded with ideas on all i can try!! I will definitely write more in my next post.

Now for some photos of our India trip.. long time the post are looking dull now:

Exciting stuff - Rishab is biting his food

Well Well Well I had to record this new milestone and it happened today.. Finally Rishab has started biting his food. He had a whole beetroot paratha and that too on his own. I am so proud of him. Believe me I was sick of grinding and mashing stuff for him and giving him the same food and all the last 10 month all he had was rice ... Today finally he ate chapatti and proved to me that he is now a big boy.. oh what a proud moment for me!!

Going a little back he gave up on the cerelac at around 8 month and finally on the mashed food after 10months... at 18 months... Now I feel my son is normal.. actually cant really blame him.. he has just 8 front teeth .. just noticed 4 other teeth have started showing the tip.. so thats a good sign.. now maybe he feels like biting and chewing... ahh!!! real relief .. I know it might sound normal to most of you but believe me I was tired of grinding food and making him eat rice..You will not believe it but starting egg yolk for rishab at 6 month was a blessing.. but he could never eat the egg white of the half fry... and in the past one year each day he would eat the egg yolk and either me or my hubby or my parents would need to finish the remaining as part of their breakfast.. Literally tues/thur was fixed for me and wed/fri for my hubby remaining days parents would eat the egg white. Today however Rishab ate the whole half fry .. yes even the white of it!! and it was a relief.. atleast we no longer need to have egg as a compulsory breakfast.

Yet another milestone.. yes ofcourse it will be another month before he really matures to biting things well... but atleast you have a start  Rishab!! Mommy and Papa are proud of you!!s

Playschool @ 18 months

We are back to Singapore and two new activities were planned for this month. One was his vaccination at 18 months which went off well except for the fever that he got for a day after the vaccination. The second is an exciting new phase .. Rishab starts with his playschool on 16 Jan 2013. He has a cute yellow and blue uniform and he looks adorable in it.

An unplanned incident also took place this month- I had a bad fall and had to undergo ankle surgery and currently am on bedrest for 6-8 weeks. Its tough but luckily my mom is here to help, so it seems manageable. This incident however has had a big impact on Rishab. Last week I was in hospiytal for 4 days... so he never saw me for all the days.. To add to it his dad was also spending considerably less time with him during the 4 days. Once I was back he was a "chipkoo" to both of us. Now he wants either mom or dad to be there for him each time. This makes things more difficult for me when my hubby is in office. Well my maids is having an even tougher time since my son now refuses to goto her.. as he only want me to do all things for him... A surprising new thing happened because of this... My husband with whom my son never went to sleep is also successful in making him sleep in the nights.. He apparently bores rishab so much by counting 1-10 that Rishab sleeps off.

However I really miss my son... its even more now cause these were things I used to do.. the exclusive mom thing... but now because of the fracture I cant do anything much with Rishab. I am hoping these 6-8 weeks pass off quickly and I go back to normal soon.

Preparations for Rishab to goto school began on Saturday. My usually late riser ... had to be awaken at 7.00am in the morning and have his breakfast... The somehow we had to stretch his nap time to 11.30 am. The finally sleeps by 8.30 -9.00pm. However, this transition was not too tough, he has managed to get into the rhythm.I really missed going to his school to drop him on the first day. This is a real milestone in every parents life when the child will be without the mother and goto an unknown environment for the first time in his life. Today rishab has completed 3 days of school but these 3 days he was accompanied by my mom so he was fine.. However still waiting to see what will happen on Monday when my mom does not enter class with him. I am sure he will cry.. Just want to see how loud his cry would be and how the teacher pacify him.

More on his school .. once he settles down.

Rishab's first trip to India @ 17 months

After mom dad have left, my hubby is working from home. and taking care of Rishab. He is doing fine and we are all excited to attend the engagement of my brother in December. We are all going to India. Its Rishabs First trip. Well the preparation of the trip is going on and on and on... Rishab is loving the activity of removing all clothes from the bags we have already packed and hence the packing seems like never ending.

We left for the airport in the morning and Rishab was very excited. Since our seats in the airplane were close to the business class .. all Rishab did in the 5 hour flight was circle from business class to economy class. He only took a short nap of 45 min toward the end of the flight. The surprising thing was that when we landed in India he never spoke a word he just was observing .. I think he understood this is not his familiar Singapore. The first word he uttered were Gapati Bappa Moriya after seeing a poster of shivji and Ganpati. Well a good note to begin the trip. When we reached my in-laws place he was very reluctant to mix with them but with 30 minutes he became comfortable. He never slept in the afternoon after reaching and we had a reception to attend the very same night. Rishab was damn tired so he slept off in the car. Actually he was a little jet-lagged too. I had to drop him off to his nana nani's house before proceeding for the marriage. Unfortunately he got up in our absence and was crying away to glory since he never saw us around. Short memory Rishab!!. The next morning was really funny . He got up at 6.30am (singapore 9.00am) and saw a crow on the window and he started off "Thirsty crow" "pebble" "water" "pot". In singapore we cant find so many crows as we do in india so it was very exciting for him.

The next couple of days we were at my parents place. He got very bad mosquito bites there..but enjoyed too. When he went down in the morning he was able to sight many cats and he loved chasing them.. I rememeber on  incident when a cat went and hid under the car, he bent down to look at it and then got up and is telling me "Mummy remove cat" .. It was hilarious. I told his i could not and asked him to request cat to com out instead .. so he goes "Cat please come out". Another thing he loved to watch is the birds feeding on grains .. oh wat fun it was for him.. One other thing I did there was to make him sit on top of a car... (something i cant do in singapore)... and he absolutely loved the feeling.. so much so that he started crying when i took him off the car.We also went to the beach with my brother and wat a blast he had there.. the entered the water and wanted to be there forever. he did not even mind the salty water entering his mouth. Surprising!! But nevertheless lovely memories.

We also took a short 5 day trip to Bangalore and how he loved meeting all his cousin sisters and brothers. Few memorable line for his Chirag Mama "Chiri mama you are too slow. Please drive fast". "please music" whenever he sat in my cousin bros car. He enjoyed playing with Pritika and Vedika (my cousin sisters children) and still remembers them. Some real hilarious incidents happened at my cousins place. He got so sleepy on his own he he lied down on the ground and started telling everyone "bye bye.. good night".  Overall a very fulfilling trip to Bangalore.

He also had a nice time with his Grandparent who were seeeing him after a year. He enjoyed playing Pee-ka boo with them and going out with them. So all in all it was a great trip to India after almost 2.5years.

Looking forward to the new year 2013. Happy new tear.

A special post for my dear parents

This is special post dedicated to my parents... who after a year in singapore have finally left back for India on 22 Nov 2012. a very big thankyou to both of you for being there though this one year with us in Singapore.

Rishab has learnt a lot from both of you and has throughly enjoyed with you guys I am sure just like you will miss him , we will miss you too. Well Rishab is now quiet potty trained , he is able to indicate when he need to use the potty.

About Diwali, well it was fun. Rishab saw the sparklers and was happy seeing the celebration and also had some Kaju Katli. We dresssed him up in traditional attire on that day and took him to the temple in the morning. Later that evening we did laxmi pooja and rishab was touching the feet of all the elders in the house. It was a truly amazingwe had some of our friends over to burst crakers. Overall a nice Diwali.

Well it is also the end of my parents stay in Singapore. We has a good time with them. They have really helped us understand some fine secrets of bringing up a child and also given us the confidence to bring up our child.

We will surely miss you!!