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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!!!

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!!!

Maa I can stand holding my cot!!!

Keeping up with the latest developments of Devaangi!!

Since last week Devaangi is able to stand on her little feet provided she has something to hold on to.  The something to hold on to was typically maa, daadi yaa dadaji ke haath. However Devaangi has a new support to hold and it is the side bars of her very own cot. I had loads of paperwork to finish over the weekend. As generally on weekends and other times when I am at home, Devaangi is mostly with me and so was the case last saturday. With Devaangi around one can forget having paper around as my baccha is sooo found of paper of any sort that she picks it up and tears it to bits and pieces. Since Devaangi was in no mood to sleep so I tries to make her sit in her cot with the toys. The bacha immediately protested as she realized that maa is going to leave her alone. I then made Devaangi stand while making her hold the sides of the cot. Devaangi was still protesting when I started playing with her by hiding my face behind her snake and then appearing again. Slowly while enjoying this game of hide and seek Devaangi held firmly to the sides of the cot and was able to balance on her feet. Phir kya tha I went back to the bed and started working while my darling bacha was standing firmly on her feet while letting out screams of joy and calling out to papa.  

And since then bacha is enjoying standing in the cot. She sees herslf in the mirror opposite to where she stands, pulls her snake, bends to pick her toys, jumps , moves back and forth and lets out squeals of laughter. It is a delight to see the joy Devaangi basks into while standing and trying to move around. In fact she tries to move around in the cot in particular to pull the winne the pooh’s of her cot musical toy which has since then be removed to avoid accidents.

Great going bacha, at this rate you should soon be walking around!!!