I can stand on my own now!

Is it summer yet?

Go Mommy Go!

I finished my first 5k walk/run last saturday and Aarush was there to cheer me up. So,what does he get in return?He gets to wear my free T-shirt from the race.

Sleep

Aarush started sleeping through the night only after he turned 6 months old. Although there were no feedings at night I still had to wake up to pacify him or sometimes bring him to our bed or just hold, rock him and put him back into his crib. I keep getting a lot of email newsletters from babycenter, WTE, Graco..etc.., on how that is a bad way of establishing sleep routine and how baby should soothe himself back to sleep. Kiran always says for the first baby 'Love overcomes logic' and I comfortably ignored the emails and would continue to wake up in the middle of night to soothe my baby. Off late it's becoming too difficult for me to manage with 5 hrs of interrupted sleep. Just when I thought I shouldn't continue this, I get this email about 'crying it out' method which my doc and colleagues also suggested I should implement. So we started out one weekend and I just couldn't take that crying and would give up and pick him. But last night we stayed strong on our decision and let him cry it out. Poor baby cried for almost 1/2 hour so loud as if the roof was falling down and at one point I thought the neighbors would come in. I almost gave up and was going to pick him, there was silence. He finally went back to sleep in sitting position. We went to his crib after sometime to put him in proper position and cover him in a blanket. Last night was the first and they say it would take 2 more nights for him to learn, God only should give me the strength. This morning I picked him up as soon as I woke up, showered a million kisses and put him on our bed with Kiran and guess what? dad and baby went into a cozy sleep and woke up only at 8:40 AM( Hello it's Friday -still a working day???).
PS: Aarush's crib is in our bedroom and a couple of feet away from our bed , ya all this drama was going on in the same room.

Thank you Highchair!

First off, thank you to whoever invented a wonderful idea called highchair.

Dinner time is usually chaos at our home. Both Kiran and I will be hungry and need food to refuel our energy tanks to play with Aarush. So after all the cutting, cooking and just when we get ready to eat Aarush cannot take the mystery of whatever that is we are eating and comes to us hanging at our feet, standing up, falling and hurting himself. One of us would pick him and put him on our lap, the curious george that he is, will not sit still and want to touch the food on Mom or Dad's plate. He messes with the food and rubs that messy hand all over his face. One time when Kiran had very hot rice on his plate and brave guy decided to touch it and cried. So all in all, it was a chaos and we couldn't eat dinner together,  one of us had to watch and play with him so the other person could eat. This continued until the highchair came into picture. Now we put him in his high chair beside the dining table, strap him, throw some finger-foods, toys and he is one happy man.
Dinner = Family time now:)

The messy part still continues though...

Daddy Time

Usually Kiran bathes Aarush on weekdays. So yesterday  I went to pick Aarush from daycare in the evening his hair was standing up and not willing to sit. I exactly know what happened.

It happens when dad puts a little too much pressure while shampooing.

Talking about that also reminded me of this funny incident, when Aarush was a small baby about 6 weeks old, we went to my Ob/Gyn for followup checkup. As we were running out of time I went straight to the office while Kiran was to get Aarush in his stroller which was the first time we were using the stroller.

And Kiran not knowing the technique of putting car seat in the stroller, he put the tiny little baby directly in the stroller and strapping him. Poor baby was no where to be seen in that giant thingy.