hi baby hello baby

Our darling bacha has learnt to recognize babies.  The only problem is that for her any bacha ranging from a day old to older ones in the range of 12-13 years are all babies. Moment she spots any child(I’ll use this as a generic term to define children’s in the age groups mentioned above) Devaangi starts points towards and calling out to that child as baby.  She continues to call out the child as baby and tries to touch that “BABY” all the while trying to be friendly with that child.
Not only this even when bacha sees her own photo or photo of any other child or sees the child on TV she immediately starts pointing towards that photo while saying baebeee( I have written baby the way it sounds when bacha pronounces baby)
 I have Devaangi’s pics as screensaver on my cell phone and the moment bacha sees my cell phone she starts saying baebeee (even if the screen is off and her pic is not visible).

Mujhe upper jaana hai…. I want to climb high!!!

During the northern grid failure I was sitting out in the stairs along with the bacha when the bacha suddenly got out of my lap and started climbing the stairs. At first I was really apprehensive and tried to stop her from doing so as I was scared that bacha might hurt herself. But bacha was determined that she wanted to climb the stairs. By the way Devaangi appears to be very head strong right from this stage itself. Once she sets her mind on doing a thing she tries her best to do it.  So I soon realized that if bacha has set her mind to climb the stairs she will any ways try to do it so I let her try it out. I was however right behind the bacha to hold her in case she loses her balance. Par bacha being a determined child who does what she wants to do, bacha managed to climb the flight of stairs to reach the 2^nd floor of the building. Imagine a 11  month old bacha climbing one complete floor (mind you DDA stairs are quite high).

Well bacha climbed the stairs again and this time maa made her do so J I know that was naughty of me to do it but nevertheless I tries it out. Other day I took Devaangi out for a stroll in her pram. When we came back I realized that I had forgotten to take my cell phone so I couldn’t call the maid to come down and take the pram upstairs. So I tried to act smart. I folded the pram and lifted it to take it upstairs on my own and put bacha down on the first stair. Guess what bacha climbed the complete flight of stairs to reach the landing area. This is where I left the pram and held bacha in my arms and took her in my arms to cover the  remaining stairs. You might say it was mean of me to do so but I actually wanted bacha to do this as part of her growing up activities!!!

Remote Control mere haath mein hai

Devaangi has realized early the importance of managing stuff using remote control. Jab poora country madam ke remote control pe chal sakta hai to hamara ghar kyon nahi Devaangi ke remote control pe chale?

Since bacha has always seen us using remotes for switching on AC and TV, moment she sees any remote lying idle she quickly grabs it and starts pointing it towards the TV or the AC as to trying to switch it on!! IIn fact just the other day, I switched on the tv and while the set top bo was coming up bacha not only picked up the remote and pointed it towards the tv but was also pressing buttons so as to turn on the tv J

In fact she is so much smitten with gadgets  that moment she realizes that AC has been turned on, she quickly moves towards it to check whether all it’s LEDs are lighted or not. This happens more at her sleeping time when she even leaves her feed on realizing that AC has been turned on and actually crawls towards it to confirm that it has been turned on. Once bacha is satisfied, she comes back to continue with her feed!!!

I have already mentioned about bacha’s fascination for telephone sets in the previous posts. Another thing that excites bacha is the red bulb that has been put outside badi daadi’s bathroom( to indicate whether it is in use or not just like you have red bulbs outside OTs). Moment that red bulb is turned on, bacha forgets about everything else and  starts pointing towards it while making noises. In addition if the red bulb is turned off and you are standing near the switch, bacha actually prompts you to lift her so that she can switch the red bulb on and off (yes she has learnt how to do this).

Same goes out for the doorbell.  One day I was standing outside the door and was knocking at the door as there was a power failure and bacha actually started calling out to me to draw my attention towards the bell as though telling me that I need to ring it in order to have the door opened.

By the way Devaangi does the same with my neighbor’s doorbell as well. In case Kamla aunty’s door is opened and she is standing there talking to us or to bacha, bacha bends forward from our arms and tries to reach aunty’s door bell.

Abhi se yeah haal hai to aage Im sure Davaangi will be ringing aunty’s and our doorbell throughout the day or maybe jab bhi mauka mile !!!!

i looveeeeeeee speaking on phone and otherwise

Bacha now babbles and mumbles a lot… she is all out trying to talk and can say words like mama aayi, dada, papa, baby, bebe, nana,bho bho

She recognizes people and things . moment you say dada she looks around and figures out where is dada. Same is with mama, ppa, badi daadi and didi(her nanny)
She has also calling out to dada, didi, papa and mama.
When bacha is sitting across dadaji on the dining table or if dada closes his room ka door(least bacha throws his medicines down again) she Devaangi prompty starts calling out to dada. Mind you she calls out dada with such authority ki poocho mat and will continue to do so jab tak dada doesn't respond.

Bacha is also able to point to fan. When asked where is fan she starts looking at the fan.

Another thing bacha recognises is the phone. Devaangi puts her palm on her ears when either u say phone aaya or the phone actually rings. Aur kahin galti se she either has your cell or the cordless or even her toy phone, bacha promptly puts that on her ears as well. She wants to talk a lot on phone so does not let u talk on phone and tries to grab it out of ur hands (kya Karen poori maa aur daadi pe gayi hai J ) Kai baar to bache ne redial feature use karke logoko phone bhi kiya hai and we have had people reverting on why we called them but did not speak :-)

Devaangi has also learnt to put the phone of speaker and you should see her reactions when she realizes that phone is on speaker. She promptly drops the phone and tries to go away least kisi ko pata chale ki Devaangi ne phone speaker pe daala hai. thanks to Devaangi now a days kayi baar hamare ghar ka phone is engaged for long.. ma'am receiver on kar deti hain aur kisi ko pata hi nahi chalta hai :-)

 i know this is just the begining aage aage dekho kya hota hai.

A B C D... i m learning alphabets

I know it's too late to publish this but what i had done during thetimes when i was running between home, hospital, office and naani house, i was writing snippets and keeping them in draft so that i could complete and publish them later on. this is what I am doing with this post!!! This one was originally written on 15 May.

i know it sounds as though we have been pushing Devaangi into learning early but lemme assure you this is not the case. Devaangi on her own is choosing alphabets that she likes and keeps saying then throughout the day!!!
the first alphabet that Devaangi learnt was M and i guess she picked up this letter from maa, mummy or mum words that we would use while speaking to her. Whole day Devaangi would keep uttering M M M.... bus phir kya tha like all other activities she soon got bored of MM and one night we had switched all lights and were just going to sleep when Devaangi started saying Bey bey Bey... yes bacha had found a new letter. since then we have so much of laugh when we hear Devaangi say bey bey bey as it sounds bebbey... and u know the reason why? we are panjus, and in punjabi bebbe stands for old lady!!!
just waiting for pucha to start speaking!!!

Puchu is truly a tech baby!!!!!

Yes ji hamar bacha truly nextgen oops this gen bacha hai… all she wants is modern gadgets and to grab and play with them she’s even willing to forgo her pyaare pyaare khilone!!!

Jee haan yeah solha aane sach hai ki puchu ko shuruaat  ke mahino se hi maa ka mobile, maa ka laptop dikh jaye bus.. woh sab bhool jaat hai and tries her best to grab these gadgets. Who bhi kya kare yeah uska kasoor nahi hai hi tech zamaane ki hai naa… ordinary khilone use pasand hi nahi aate.. infact abhi while I m typing this post, she is sitting quietly next to me all tangled between my phone ke earphones J pata nahi kya swaad aata hai usse earphones ki cable mein ki mooh se nikaalti hi nahi hai .. and you try to pull the cable out of her mouth and see bacha protesting. Sher jag jata hai aur poore ghar ko bhi jaga deta hai

Coming to the electronics one by one… I’ll start with phones first. Puchu ko maa, daadi ya daadaji ka mobile or cordless dikh jaaye yaa she sees any of us talking on phone phir kya hai bacha tries to grab the phone and puts it in her mouth. Pata nahi phone mein kya swaad aata hai jo bacha doesn’t want to leave it. If u are on phone, woh bahut shoor machaati hai par jaise hi phone uski awaaz nikalni band ho jaati hai aur sanaata kar deti hai…

Ab aati hai baari laptop ki… puchu bus dekh to le maa ko laptop kholte hue, madam bed pe kahi bhi ho immediately crawl kar ke or roll over kar ke she reaches the laptop and tries to strike the keys aur who bhi is tarah se that they come out!!!! Are maa ka office ka laptop hai personal nahi bachu… please be careful… company ne doosra nahi dena hai!!

Par mera bacha to bindaas hai use kya farak parta hai… uska kaam bigarna hai aur ma aka theek kkarna J love you mischievous  look when you do this.. par bacha ji aap khatarnaak hote jaa rahe ho.. aaj to aapne maa ko daraane ke saath saath advance notice de diya. Today I put puchu in her cot and was working on the laptop while lying on the bed. Suddenly peeche se bache kaa haath aaya and like a missile hit  the laptop.. yes ji mera bacha 6 inch waale scale ki height ka cot divider cross karke ( and not to forget her soft toys and pillows ka barrier too)  bed pe crawl kar ke pahuch chukka tha aur who bhi kya karne- guess karo … yes ji bilkul sahi guess kiya aapne -to play with the laptop. Aur yeah ek baar nahi my bachu did this twice J

meri nanhi si pyari si natkhat laadli bachi… u are becoming dangerous day by day.. ab aap pe nazar rakhne ki liye koi chahiye aur who bhi 24 hrs…..

Vrooooooooom bhrum bhrum

Yes this is what my bacha does now days. Puchu darling goes around saying vrooooom, brum, brum throughout the day. Yeah sa sun ke mujhe mera bachpan yaad aa jaata hai when we kids would play imitating the sound produced by bikes and go about doing brum  brum as though someone is giving bike kaa accelerator without moving it.

Bilkul yehi mere bache ka bhi haal hai. And the best part is when she is going on doing brum brum in maa’s lap and suddenly papa takes her away. (Kya Karen papa ka bhi pucha ke bina man nahi lagtha J) bus the very moment bacha starts crying aur minto mein yeah bade bade aansoo bacha tapkaane lagta hai ki pooch mat. lekin the moment I  take her in my arms all rona dhoona is forgotten and the bacha goes accelerating her bike again brum brum…. Vroooooooom !!! lagta hai ki dhoom 3 mere hi ghar mein hoga J good going bacha par maa and papa ki tarah speed limits mat cross karna…

Yesterday's visit to Bade Mandir

This post is actually more of a satsang that describes how our bachha is bonding with Guruji.
Like every week, this week too we went to Bade Mandir ( yesterday). Bade Mandir is our Guruji's mandir and Devaangi is his blessing to us. Devaangi has been going to Guruji's place ever since she came home (she was just 2 days old when we first took her to bade mandir!!)
Across all our visits to bade Mandir we have observed that bachha is really a very well behaved there. She doesn't create tantrums or shor sharaba there like many other children of her age.
Par kal ki baat hi niraali thi. pichle kuch dino se bachha is irritable. Maybe it is because she is teething. As a result she doesn't go to any one. Par mandir mein all that changed.
I sat in the verandah outside the main hall with bachha while papa was away at sewa. To keep her occupied, I gave Devaangi her squeeze toy. bachha took the toy and promptly threw it away and then turned towards me to give a big smile (Devaangi is now a days in a habit of taking things and throwing them down).
While the shabads were on, bachha was busy playing quietly. Itne mein her Chavi aunty came and she took bachha in her laps. Woh Devaangi jo aajkal kisi unkown ke paas nahi jaati, immediately went to Chavi aunty. Itne mein mantra jaap started and bachha promptly became quite. She sat quietly in Chavi aunty's lap during the mantra jaap while holding aunty's finger in one hand and staring at Guruj's picture nonstop. Pretty surprising especially since bachha met aunty after couple of months aur is age mein bachha agar kisi ko ek hafta naa dekhe to bhool jaata hai.
par yeah to shuruaat thi. When ma and papa went for langar, there they met Pal aunty who offered to hold Pucha while maa and papa had their langar. Aur kya tha aap maanoge nahi Pucha Pal aunty ke paas bhi chali gayi :-) :-) she was quiet in Pal aunty's arms.Par jaise hi maa and papa ka langar khatam hua, Pucha ki nazar maa pe gayi and she started crying.
Moment i held her, pucha became quiet. uske baad papa went back to sewa while bacha continued to be with me all the while playing merrily.
jab hamare jaane ka time aaya and we went to the main haal to take aagya, Pucha was in papa's arms. Jaise hi hum main haal mein ghusse, Pucha's eyes fell on Guruji's picture that is there on the right side of the hall and immediately she started smiling and jumping in papa's lap as though wanting to reach Guruji. We then came back home and on our way back hum yahi baat kar rahe thi ki ise kehte hain Guruji ke saath direct connection.

Gyming all the way !!!!!

No no i do not mean that Devaangi is sweating out in the Gym. I am talking about her play gym that keeps her engrossed the entire afternoon and the late evenings post my bachha's dinner!!!
The play gym was a gift from pucha's bua and uncle who adore her like anything... by the way isse pehle ki hum aage bade time to introduce another nickname of Devaangi i.e. puchha or puchhu as maa and daadi lovingly call out to Devaangi with...
When the gym first came Devaangi was hardly 2 months old so it did not make much sense to her.. every one at home would place the gym over puchu's crib hoping that she will pull the toys hanging form it.
but this did not happen for another couple of months. Till then pucha would merrily or at times with a disinterested look at the toys which the others in the family would play with ro keep the bachha occupied or at least devlop her interest in the gym. During those initial months the gym would be able to occupy Devaangi for 10-15 mins at max after which she would start calling out to people to rescue her!!! this is what it looked like from the tone and  pitch of puchu's call...
pehli bar on 9th dec 2011 at nana house Devaangi on her own tugged at one of the toys hanging from the gym. I on seeing this immediately captured the same on my phone. Wait till i upload the video. Phir kya tha Devaangi started playing with the gym..  i know you thought this is what happened. par nahi aisa kuch nahi hua.. the initial story of others playing with Devaangi's gym continued till about a month back. One  person who really enjoyed the hanging toys of the gym is Devaangi's cousin yaani chota sa Ritvik bhaiya. Ritvik would take the toys out of the gym and would demand that he take them home. It used to be a task to take the toys back from him!!!
Moving back to Devaangi and her association with the gym... Since past month or so every afternoon the gym is setup in the drawing room and Devaangi is put next to it. bachha has started enjoying the gym a lot. In fact even when he is left on her own, Devaangi plays with the gym. She pulls the toys, loves seeing her own reflections in the hanging mirror, pulling at the musical toys and now even tries to get up while holding the gym. This is risky as the gym is light weight and the way bachha holds on to the gym and puts her weight on it to get up!!!!
yes mera bachha ab khade bhi hone laga hai!!!!
baaki will be covered in next blog...till then happy playing bachha!!!

Devaangi likes… Going OUT!!!

Almost every evening I try and take Devaangi out for a stroll. Even though Devaangi is a few months old, she understands that if maa or anyone else  has stepped out of the house onto stairs while carrying her, they are going OUT!!! All one has to do is hold Devaangi in their arms and go near the stairs. At this point Devaangi gets so charged up that she starts jumping and laughing. Her excitement is very evident and it becomes difficult to hold her least she gets out of your arms.  If you try to call out to her from the door, she will hear you but not even look back least you hold her back irrespective of who is calling her. It’s like she knows that she is going out and if she looks back may be the person calling out to her will hold her back which she doesn’t want should happen. Yeah hain aaj kal ke bacche. You simply can’t keep them indoors.

And now another thing has also happened. Devaangi loves going for rides in her stroller. We keep the stroller upstairs in the hourse and typically whenever hubby or me are taking Devaangi out for a ride, the maid gets the stroller downstairs. Even before we open the stroller and set it up for Devaangi , baccha lets out squeals of joy and tries to jump out of our arms into the stroller even before it is SETUP for HER!!!

Kuch aisa rides mein bhi hota hai jab hum papa ke saath rides pe jaate hain. Devaangi now does not want to sit in my lap but wants to stand. This is also one of her recent developments. Moment I make Devaangi stand, she tries to reach out to audio system controls, gear and most often to the blower outlets that she tries to open and close with her tiny fingers. Aur ek cheez jo Devaangi ko pasand hai is to place her palms flat on the car side window and look out. This is slightly dangerous as baccha has also started to try and explore the controls on the door. I can now no longer afford to get distracted with baccha in the car kyonki pata nahi Devaangi ab kya kar baithe. Time to be more VIGILENT!!!

Devaangi uttered her first letters and words

3 days back or rather to be precise on 13 apr my bachu got up  and started sitting on her own without any support … till now she was able to sit without support provided someone would make her sit and then leave her with her toys or anything else to hold and play. However for past 3 days, if she is lying, Devaangi has been struggling to get up and sit on her own and is able to manage this 4 out of 10 times.. u should see the efforts my baccha puts in while trying to get up .. hats off to you my darling.

Another thing that she has started is saying papa clearly. Devaangi had started speaking about 2 months back. She uttered her first words da da da  and ba ba ba on 5^th feb and eventually added pa pa pa, ababa, abu, boo to the list.  Lekin  since last Friday (13^th apr) she is nonstop going on clearly calling out papa papa.. wow!!! hubby will be too delighted to hear that.. the only hitch is that he is out of town and hasn’t heard his daughter calling out to him like that…  can’t wait to have hubby get back home and see his reaction when he hears  Devaangi go on saying papa papa!!!

Now waiting for the day when Devaangi says maa.

My daily rides in the stoller

Even before Devaangi arrived in this world we had started shopping for her... One of the first things that we bought for Devaangi was a set of stroller and car seat. Keeping in mind the fact that both I and hubby are found of going out, we had in our mind to buy a stroller in which we can take our baby out from birth till the time she is 4-5 years old. And when we set our eyes on the Graco stroller set woila it was what we had been looking for!!! Just perfect for our roaming ideas!!! With about 10 days remaining for Devaangi to arrive, we went ahead and made our major purchase for our darling.

Devaangi's stroller comes complete with a car seat that can be attached in the stroller to make her face the person pushing the stroller. Devaangi however goes around in her stroller without the car seat majority of times.

Both I and hubby need an excuse to take Devaangi out in her stroller in our society. On sunday afternoons when Devaangi is cranky and is not sleeping, hubby takes her out in the stroller and within minutes our cranky baby calms down and goes off to sleep.

shuru ke mahino mein the stroller was not used much as i was away to naana house most of the times as Devaangi's naana is not well. Par jub se we have come back to VK and the weather has changed now our bacha goes out every evening in her stroller. In fact one of the best part of having my office shifted to gurgaon is that i m back home on time to take Devaangi out for a stroll and that's when her stroller is put to use.
Roz shaam aati hai aur hamari nanhi pari apni maa ke saath stroller mein choomne jaati hai... this routine has been on for past one week. In initial months Devaangi would be taken out with the stroller seat set to the sleeping position. But now we have set it to the sitting mode and strap Devaangi in her stroller. You must see how Devaangi sits bending forward in fact as much forward as the straps allow her to move forward.
Our alert bacha looks right and left, up and down and all around while maa pushes her stroller within the colony. All through the evening stroll, bachu keeps saying pa pa pa pa and calls out to maa and responds to people she meets on the road.. In fact i did not as many people in the colony in past 7 years and i know in last 10 days.. All thanks to our cute little baby... our sweetheart who has already started making hearts stop with her smile!!!!!!
People of all age group stop and say hello to our little baby who too responds with her smiles and laughter to them :-)
Together with the hearts of all people we meet on our walk, my heart too goes out for you my darling daughter. i love you and look forward to taking you out for these daily strolls......

Devaangi has started clapping!!!

fast forward to the present>>>>
on 8th Apr i.e. just 2 days ago Devaangi clapped for the first time and hasn't stopped eversince.
Devaangi came back from naani house and was meeting badi daadi when she suddenly started clapping her hands on her own.
This kanjake i had brought molis with ghoongrus for girls and had tied one on puchu's hands as well!!! oops i forgot one important thing... Before u start wondering who Puchu is (i m sure u must have anyways guessed by now)Time to introduce one of many nicknames of Devaangi!!!! Devaangi is fondly called puchu by maa and daadi..
sorry for the break in between... let me continue from where i deviated... so yes repeating again: This kanjake i had brought molis with ghoongroos for girls and had tied one on puchu's hands as well!!!  when puchu claps her hands one can hear the melodious sound of ghoongrus. i guess she has still not realized that the sound comes when she claps her hands and also she doesn't seem to have taken to the sound of ghoongrus as much as i thought she would else she would have continued to clap nonstop...but yes moment she sees some one clapping she starts clapping as well... kal raat to both daadi and poti were clapping when puchu stopped clapping her hands and held daadi's hand to clap :) whjat fun it was to try and make puchu leave daadi's hands and clap with her own hands which she never wanted to do!!!