Proud Papa...

Posting an IM conversation between Anand and me this morning...

anandsundaram: he is so mature, you know for his age
anandsundaram: today...
anandsundaram: in the morning when he was having his Bfast...
anandsundaram: he talked while he munching his food in his mouth..and
anandsundaram: he had to spit everything out
Priya: ?
anandsundaram: and I got upset
anandsundaram: and he tells me....
anandsundaram: "don't get angry appa, it's ok"
anandsundaram: :)
Priya: :)
Priya: yes he is a gem
anandsundaram: I told him I was not angry
anandsundaram: then he asked me..
anandsundaram: "are you upset?"
anandsundaram: I told him "yes"
anandsundaram: then he says " don't be upset appa"
anandsundaram: "I will not talk with food in my mouth...Are you happy now?"
anandsundaram: :)
Priya: he is very sensitive to different moods - nuances - he can figure out what we feel

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Actually come to think of it, for a two and half yr old, this kind of dialoguing(sp?) is pretty good. Many times in the past when I say "Am looking for xyz, am not finding it" He would immediately pitch in saying "Dont worry Amma, I can help you find it". "Mmm.... It is probably...probably...hiding behind those books"

There was a time when i was upset about something when he came to me and said "Dont worry Amma, it will be ok." and gave me a hug. Maybe I blogged it...I dont remember, but yes this little one has a way with words...

Priya

Is that door open?

It was just another routine evening. Arjun and I were coming back from daycare. Arjun was strapped in his car seat and me in the driver seat. We were just chatting when suddenly he asked "Amma is the door open?" I immediately checked the indicator to see if any of the car doors were open. I was worried by now...Here we were clocking 60 mph and Arjun was asking if the door was open?

When I was sure that none of the doors were open, I asked him if he meant the windows instead and pat came the reply "No Amma, the TV door"... He was referring to the enterntainment center in our house that holds the TV. He wanted to make sure that the door was already open and ready for him to watch TV as soon as he gets home

Phew... So much for worrying about my being an irresponsible mommy and not taking care to lock the car doors before driving...

But hang on... Is he now getting addicted to TV? Am I going to have a couch potato at home?

Gotto go write that up on my "Mommy Worry List" (*grin*)
Priya

WheelBarrow Fun

Yet another Diwali Picture....



Simon Says...



Arjun and his friends were playing the "Simon Says" game. (For you uninitiated ones, this is a game where some one says "Simon says clap your hands" and everyone claps their hands. Simon says Turn Around, Simon Says Touch the ground and you can go on making up things like that)

The last one... "Simon Says Jump up High"

Diwali 2006

We had a Diwali Gettogether at Sai and Amrita's place.

Here is a picture (Thanks to Sai for his excellent camera and photography skills) from that day.



Vennela, Arjun, Sami and Achyutaa..

Am trying to upload more

The spicy toothpaste battle....

We are right now transitioning him from the baby toothpaste to the regular flouride filled colgate toothpaste (Per the dentist's recommendation - he had his 2nd Dentist visit in October 2006) --- and it is a fairly tough battle. Arjun hates the spicy feeling that he gets (and he has never ever liked spice so far) and screams when the paste hits his tongue.

When I brush his teeth, I just let him feel it... I wait for a few seconds when he screams and then ask him what happened. I assure him that nothing happens when the paste hits his tongue and that he will be ok and then we talk about other stuff.

Anand on the other hand is more considerate... When he brushes Arjun's teeth - he makes this big story about monstrous germs invading the teeth and how this white toothpaste (the other baby toothpaste is transparent in color) helps kill all these germs faster.

Either way, it is a mini war zone in the bathroom these days. Some day, this will just be one more default activity

Priya

Bhageera the black panther

I dont think I ever blogged the fact that Arjun now refers to himself as Bhageera... Anand is Bhalu and I am Sher Khan (All from Jungle book). He first started calling himself with this alternate name around the last week of August 2006.

During our disney land vacation, he started referring to himself as Bhageera... I thought he would have outgrown it by now, or even forgotten it... but nope, he sometimes would only respond if we address him as Bhageera and not as Arjun.

Over the past week or so, Arjun and I have morphed into various other characters as well - the current ones being that he is Winnie the Pooh and I am Christopher Robin (sometimes I get to be Tigger as well)

His current fav video is the one about Tigger. There is this song that is very good and very fast... "The wonderful thing about Tiggers" http://www.northern-pine.com/songs/tigger.html. The complete lyrics can be found here: http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/d/disney6472/thewonderfulthingabouttiggers512163.html

And for the record, 2+ --- this is the age when Arjun was able to let go of mommy every waking moment. He started playing for about 5 - 10 mts at a stretch on his own without expecting amma to be there...

More later
Priya

I know my ABCs

Needed to post that for the past 3-4 months (probably since he turned 2 yrs and 4 months old) Arjun has been able to recognize all the alphabets. I need to give credit to Richard Scary's ABC video for that! It is 30 mts long and is so cute. I let him watch it after he turned 2 and within 2 months he was able to recognize all the alphabets...

Is it because he is smart or is it because of the video or is it a combo of both? Whatever it is, I guess I dont now have to be concerned that he would be the first 30 yr old who is yet to learn his alphabets.... (Refer to my prev blog post) Now I just need to get him interested in numbers. Status on that is that he has been able to say the numbers from 1 thru 20 - for ages - but is yet to begin recognizing them.... He is not interested in the numbers video that I have (Sesame Street) Need to look for a better one!

Priya