Prayer!

Rockstar!

The Grandparents Visit!!

Remember this post , Wishes do come true! His Amamma & Tatha finally made a trip to US.  It is indeed an awesome feeling to have parents around. Aarush loved their company, wish they stayed with us forever and ever and ever. We visited a bunch a places with them and I don’t remember the kids bothering us much except for an occasional 'Palu kavali' , 'chocolate kavali' stuff!

Aarush now knows how Thata has his insulin injection and by what name Ammumma calls him, he still calls our guest bedroom as Thatha's bedroom. Dad and mom would hold Aarush and Megha while we left for work and they happily waved me bye and got back to their monkey business. Thatha was more of a toy to them and both would climb , jump and use him as toy. They would come to Ammumma if they needed anything to eat or when Ammumma is doing any cool stuff like drying ‘oorimirapakayalu’ so they could go and mess with them.

It was too adorable to watch him walk behind my dad with his hands folded backwards in the typical grandfather style. He would hang out in their bedroom until

midnight( I am not exaggerating here!)until I pity my parents' sleepy faces and pull the kids out of their room and forcefully put them to sleep!

Thanks to my parents and Megha's company Aarush's vocabulary grew by heaps. He now mostly converses in Telugu and his teacher tells me he speaks in English at school, so there! I have a multilingual already!Hope it continues this way.

 

Aarush and Megha started off with rough play, of course no surprises there and a day later they were the best of best friends. They still want the same toy and would snatch the said toy as soon the other drops it even for a split second but played as a team other times. I awwwwed when my dad showed me their playing style of how one of them would pretend falling off from the tricycle and calls out for help and the other runs up and gives the hand for support. They would play just this when in backyard over and over again. Isn’t that something? Some really cute creative stuff I say!

They both learned from each other, be it vocabulary, be it silly stuff, be it good things.  Looking them together made me realize that having twins would have been just awesome sans the trouble part!

The Second Birthday!!!

After much blow off the candles game singing happy birthday song as lullaby Aarush started to call a candle 'Happy Birthday'. The moment he spots one he would sing, blow and clap his hands. The practice worked out perfectly when the birth'day' arrived.  He sung the "Happy Budday to Aaashhush, may gaaaud bess you" much to my satisfaction. Party went really well and looked like the dude had fun, thanks to the kiddos and a big backyard, they were all over the place running, screaming and having fun. Aarush absolutely loves the company of his friends and his" Annas". The cars theme we picked coincided with the release of car2 movie and the decor stuff was found easily. Aarush and other kids loved the theme and had ball of a time.

My Parrot's catching up!!!!

Drafted sometime in April 2011
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My mom said I started speaking around 9 months of age and Kiran at 3 years, so we thought Aarush might average it out and would start talking around age 2. During his 18 months wellness visit, I literally counted the number of words Aarush could speak, it barely summed up to 20. His doc said he should be able to speak at least 20-30 words by the time he hits age 2. He slowly picked up words and would utter them randomly and never when asked for. I don't know what happened in the India trip, but it changed my baby to a big boy. He can now repeat almost everything that we say, okay may be he cannot repeat "Schwarzenegger" yet!!! Not only repeating but he now understands if we are talking about him and tries to participate in the conversation. Like the other day I was telling Kiran about how Aarush threw up his food again at the daycare and he immediately started making the "gagging" sound!!!It's already time to be cautious of what we speak before him....sigh!!!

Here's Aarush's vocab so far,

Aaaush- Aarush

Nanna, Daddie

Mommy

Thatha

Meekha- Megha

Maama

Attha

Baby

Keesh- Keys

Ike-bike

Ttuck - truck

Cahr -car

Carsh- cars

IIG Ttuck- Big truck

Ooon- Spoon

Bool- Bowl

Plaaih- Plane

Trrn- Train and if i still don't get it he says Coooo

Bus

Shoe

Paa- milk

Aam- Food

Daa daa- come

Go

No

Bees

Tha Tha- Water

Kaakee-Chocolate

Ball

Aaapy Baaday- Happy Birthday

Hi

Bye

Taashh- Trash

Yucky

Peas

Hotty

Cooold

Snow

Ice

AApppice- Office

Offf- off

Geeeen- Green

thop- stop

Edd- Red

Beech- Beach

Ugg-Hug

Thee-Thee- Open
Egg
Night night
Batty

On an adventure called India trip

Poor blog always takes a back seat when other trivial things like home buying, parents visiting, job change occur. With my memory size growing backwards I better record the baby stuff before I forget. So dear blog I will try and visit you more often!!!
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4/11/2011
On an adventure called India trip

Kiran wanted to visit his ailing grandmom and decides to tag Aarush along for a 3 week India trip. All this without the most important person in their lives( or so I thought!!!!) - that is ME. So with marked-off checklists, completed to-do lists, toys being brought for in- flight entertainment, backpack packed to its maximum capacity, they set out for the adventure. Now what's the big deal? you might ask, try taking a highly energetic toddler boy all by yourself hit by cold and cough at the same time to both Dad and Son. Kiran said the first domestic connection was a breeze considering that was at Aarush's nap time. On board with the first international long flight, Kiran said he already thought about how he would manage in the return flight after 3 weeks!!!!Aarush refused to sit by himself and would only sleep on Kiran's shoulders for almost 8 hours.(I am proud of you Kiran!!!). Huffing and puffing they finally reached India and the innocent Dad thought Aarush would be in the loving care of his grandparents and he could rest. The first week Aarush just cling ed on to Kiran and wouldn't let him go out of sight. The second and third weeks were better in terms of getting used to the people around him and having fun. I asked Kiran to make sure Aarush doesn't loose any weight let alone gaining. But the boy refused to eat and literally survived on milk and junk he said. I think I am destined for a skinny kid and should just stop worrying!!!

Coming to the good part of the trip, they both got to spend time with Kiran's very dear grand-mom, dearest grandparents and the lovely family. Even after a month if I narrate him a story taking each of family member's names, he wouldn't let me miss out a single name and I couldn't be more happier. Kiran took him to the beach and Aarush absolutely loved it. He is still so ready to go at the slightest utterance of the word "Beach"( Time for another beach vacation!!!).
The love affair with pressure cookers continued even in India and the living room would not be without them and all other utensils that go in and around it, at any time of the day! With Shreyas and Megha around, he had fun and if they stayed for some more time I am sure they would turn into partners in crime.

It is evident that he loves his Dad so dearly from the fact that he wouldn't let him go out of sight even for a minute, not even for a restroom break. The Mother in me is pushing on making an assumption that 'Aarush did miss me' considering he was cranky, wouldn't eat and cling on to his Dad for the fear that even Dad might leave him.

I missed him terribly and was delighted to see him and enjoying the new "Mommy mommy" word he picked up!