Good Fun!!!!

After good 18 months(since the baby's arrival) for the first time i went on a girl's day out...:)) Well ever since we shifted to this new place i have managed to make some friends....well friends enough to go shopping..and that IS a big deal for me coz i am a shop alone girl...i luvvv to shop and window shop on my own....It was M's idea to go shopping and S nd moi just hopped on it...Went for two hours, wound it up in five!!(so typical isnt it!!!)
in the beginning i had my doubts since my lil man was all very upset these days coz his dad has to be away most part of the week on business trips but S was really motivating ... Anyways the day was fab my lilypie actually enjoyed his day out especially coz both S and M's kids were around.......had his food without hassle, drank lots of water and even had his afternoon nap without a glitch(boy was i happy?:))) On our way out M
had to go to the parking which is the basement of this giant edifice and the plan was she would pick us up from the exit gate. Since we had the kids and our precious shopping bags it was only logical to do so... however M was not aware that there was another exit which lead on to a road which was just across the mall. Even if she wanted to call us there, there was no place to park....apparently the exit route was also not marked properly! So she again had to enter the mall picked us up from the exit and we double checked with an employee there whether we'd be charged again for parking which ideally they shud not coz we were entering the parking lot only to get out!!!He said that we wont be charged....we go in the parking and take the correct route to exit and
as we were about to pass the exit gate we were stopped and asked to pay for the "parking". We told them why we were there and the goof up...but they simply wouldn't listen...they wanted thirty bucks/hr for parking that never happened!!! We tried to explain but the person in charge was downright rude refused to listen to us at all and asked us to back up...we three girls were furious....brought on the girl power and told our driver not to budge from that place no matter what..in the mean time M's seven year old daughter said she was a bit scared in all the screaming and explaining but we told her that we were just standing up for our rights....that we are right and the man outside the window was wrong....we r not 'just' quarreling with a man. who .finally was forced to bring in the supervisor ...the supervisor seemed to be more educated and decent...patiently heard our side and let us go!!!!!As we drove past the exit gate we were happy...we stood for what was right and "THAT" was good fun!!!!!...

Rachel Aldou!!

Thank you Dear Rachel for this beautiful prayer.
This prayer on the video bar is my all time favourite....when i am exhausted and at my wits end taking care of our 18 months old toddler and need to calm myself down I listen to this...my baby has been listening to this since he was born. Most of the nights we play this before we go to bed. Really wanted to include this here where i am documenting my life coz this has moved me every time i listen to it. Don't want to lose the video any time soon...that's why now its here.

Jus the two of us...

Yesterday the whole day was pretty uneventful but tiring nevertheless...who knew the night would be so dramatic!!! HD was on tour the whole week. it was pretty much the two of us until i put R to bed...Now he is a light sleeper i call it 'dog sleep', wakes up at the slightest unfamiliar sound! Anyways i dozed off singing baaa baaa black sheep to him, the bedroom door was closed and the TV was on coz i feel it gets really quiet once R is asleep and i dont like that especially when HD is not around...somehow the house feels unusually empty....so with the TV on, the bedroom door closed and the main door locked I went into a deep lumber!!!In the mean time at around 10:30 pm ie a good one hour after i slept (am guessing) HD arrived...and as fate would have it he didnt have the duplicate key which he always carries with him...he rang the door bell ...nothing...again he rang ...waited for a while ...nothing..... rang number of times nothing!! called my number(later i saw six missed calls) the phone was on the kitchen counter ...so no reply there!...then he called the land line number which is in the other bed room....nothing...he was freaking out when he started banging the door....well i slept through!!By this time neighbors started to come out(how embarassing!!!!) one annoyed neighbor even asked HD to keep it down actually said 'Do not disturb' i mean cummon!!!how insensitive is that!!!suppose we had fallen into real trouble then what? would he still say do not disturb!!!!!I wonder whatever happened to friendly neighbors..they are your first help etc etc ? Anyways HD was pretty much panicking by then...was frantically trying to figure out what could have gone wrong?..are we safe?...and there is no backdoor to these apartments so how he could enter....In the meantime i thought i heard the door bell...then some far away phone ringing, my mind said wait a min is it my door bell?!!thats when my eyes snapped open and yeah i ran to open the door...and HD rushed in screaming his head off...well naturally...
In all this drama i saw my lill one walking out of the bedroom quizzically looking at the dad.....the screaming came to an abrupt stop and HD felt terrible that after 5 days R has to see him like this...so started another round of uknowat...sigh
Today Morning R completely got glued to his dad...went even in the bath with him so naturally when HD left he cried real hard(my poor baby:( and he complained and cribbed and was cranky almost the whole day!To make things worse for this poor mommy he just refused to eat....the whole schedule went haywire today. He took his afternoon nap at 4 pm ie almost his usual wake up time...woke up at 6 pm!! which is his usual play time!!so we had to fore-go the park time..instead since he didn't have his lunch well i decided to cook soup with some noodles for him....to my delight he loved the noodles and eagerly tried to help himself with the spoon!!!never mind he didn't have too much of the actual soup nor did he use the spoon for long.. it was a delight to watch him finish his first bowl of soupy noodles!!!
The dinner time was another ordeal! On top of that HD called to say it was going to be late again...i tried my best to feed him but he refused...he actually looked ready for bed so we finished our bed time chores and had just settled in bed when a wall lizard(one would find atleast one in all Indian homes) called tic-tic-tic....and i bit my tongue lest i swore!!!! You see, lill R is super scared of these creatures and he calls them tictic...one call he stops at whatever he is doing...so the same applied for going off to sleep!!!Anyways now that he comprehends most of what i say I amm trying to put in his lill head that the lizard is a petty tiny creature in front of my strong R, Mumma and R together will scare the tictic off...he kept saying those words but guess it was still very hard for him to believe... so my baby clung on to me real tight in fact i was quite surprized how hard he can hold on....slowly drifted into dreamland while clinging on to my forarm real tight!!!!!loved the feeling.. mother's love chemical was over flowing i am sure:)))
Sweet dreams my angel xoxoxoxo

Baby steps!!

The year 2010 has been a super busy year...mainly travelling. We travelled back from colombo when R was 7 weeks old then travelled at a steady gap of 2-3 months...only time will tell the repercussions of dat on my lillpie...but development wise fortunately all the milestones were reached:))
R did not crawl much, in fact he started crawling late around 9 months. But my lill guy more than made up for it by standing around 11 month 3 weeks and he walked for the first time on Oct 24th 2010 exactly after 1 yr and 10 days!!!!
R loves people especially when he feels dat he is going to get lots of positive attention!!!He will shake their hands, smile at them and try to communicate in his cute li'l ways.....
For the last six months its never been dat R had to stay home alone only with me coz he was surrounded with either set of grand parents and relatives...its been just two days dat grand parents have left and to make things worse HD is on an official tour...so for the first time in 18 months its only Mommy nd R living together....i must say i am quite amazed at the maturity at which he's handling the situation.....he is very attached to both his dad and grand dad...i know he understands dat they r not living with us any more...he IS missing them but i expected a certain amount of tantrums, crying etal...but thankfully to my utter surprise and delight nothing!!!!Gosh i feel blessed:)