I looovvvveee my drink!!!!!!!!!!

Puchu loves drinking!!!! arre don't get wrong ideas.. by drinkning i didn't mean hard drinks  but i meant plain water. I know the title seems misleading par iraade neik hain :-)
Puchu has started enjoying drinking water and mind it she drinks it from her own chotti si glassi or katori!!!
we have tried that Pucha gets used to drinking from glass so we started giving her water in her own designated glass.
Pehle pehle to she didn't enjoy drinking ater much Par shayad summers ki wajah se or what i don't know Pucha relishes water like anything. By the time i enter home from office and have my glass of water she's in my arms and then first thing bacha wants is a sip of water from my glass. At this time and at others when she is with you and you are drinking water without ofering it to bacha, bacha tries to grab and pull the glass away form your mouth. This is her way of telling you ki mujhe bhi pyaas lagi hai.. mujh bhi paani do!!!
Itna hi nahi, last week (9th may) papa was at home and was having masala waala chaach (buttermilk). bacha wanted a sip from papa's glass and ek sip lene ke baad to yeah aalam tha ki she didnt stop drinking and drank a good amount of chaach from papa's glass. She didn't even give consideration to the masala in the chaach which we thought might be too pungent and strong flavoured for her.
poora swadu hai hamara bacha so far as namkeen chatpata things are concerned :-)
I am happy that you are developing taste for normal eatables that we have at home. Don't want you to be a fussy eater or Drinker as i amy say!!!!

Humpty dumpty sat on a wall.. humpty dumpty had a great fall..

The person who wrote the poem humpty dumpty sat on a wall on reading this is surely going to ask  me for royalty J

My bacha loves this rhyme like anything and therefor her maa uses it as a blackmail tool ( I don’t know bacha how will u take to this when u r more mature to understand how we used to make you do things by singing this rhyme!!).When she refuses food, Devaangi closes her mouth firmly and starts moving her head away from the spoonful of food , just like a pendulum. All I have to do now is to start singing humpty dumpty sat on a wall, humpty dumpty had a great fall, and even before I reach any further my bacha smilingly opens her mouth to eat her food!!! The food she was refusing seconds ago is now eaten by her with lesser fuss. This is called generation next..

Well humpty dumpty is not the only rhyme used to feed bacha or make her laugh when she’s hurt or is crying yet it tops the chart. There are others too.

 These are 2 little Dixie birds ., chi chi karti aayi chidya, jhoote maiya machiya khilaayea, and the latest to be added to the bandwagon is jack and jill went up the hill…. Listening to any of these rhymes simply lights up Devaangi’s face and she is all smiles J

Devaangi's eating sessions

Continuing in the Present>>>>>>>>
We started giving food to Devaangi from the time she turned 5 months old.  Her first food was cerelac rice flavor. Devaangi had her first meal right after her visit to doctor uncle Raghu. She simultaneously also started having fresh soup. Semi solid food in the form of khitchri, dalia etc started when Devaangi turned 6 months old. It was also the time when we started with a new flavor of cerelac -wheat with apple. But similar to the rice flavor cerelac experience, Devaangi did not take to the new flavor of cerelac. Cerelac eating sessions with Devaangi do not last long as she doesn't eat more than half a katori  and that too after lots of face making, turning face away and cajoling.
Devaangi however has taken a liking for namkeen food. Touchwood!!! Devaangi enjoys eating khitchri. We try and give her a variety in the form of dalia- dal khitchri on one day and chawal dal khitchri the next day. Devaangi has a booster seat that we have fixed on the dining table chair. So just like us adults at home bachu too has a fixed seat on the dining table :-) and it is on her table chair that bachu has her meals along with her toys of course.
photo below was taken on 8th mar 2012 d very first time Devaangi sat on her booster chair and had her dinner..

Daily i make a namkeen item and a milk item for bachu before leaving for office. The milk items are typically sweet ones like dalia or oats, or suji doodh or custard which i invariably end up eating as my  bachu does not enjoy sweet food... Imagine !!! that's a typical non mehra trait as we mehras simply love meetha....
my  dear bachu i hope u start enjoying meetha as much as the rest of the family does...

br />one meetha thing that my bacha enjoys is banana which we started giving to her from 1st Apr. bachu really relishes mashed banana but u give her any other fruit like apple and see her turning her face away !!!
so much like her papa..

 Devaangi is very fussy about her eating... if she is hungry and you give gaps between her spoonful’s, she becomes restless and starts making noise to make u realize that u need to concentrate on feeding her and not talking around...
in between her spoonfuls she looks at dadaji and badi daadi, calls out to them ..(hamari bitiya bahut zoor se awaaz lagati hai...) waits for their acknowledgement as though they approve of her eating, smiles and merrily eats her food...

but try feeding her when her tummy is full... bachu surely knows how to say NO ( a trait maa needs to learn!!) She turns her face away and point blankly refuses to open her mouth. aap lage raho par bachu tas se mas nahi hoti hai....  on top of that she's start protesting by making noises...
bachu also enjoys tit bits from others food. she likes chaatofying honey from dadaji's fingers, sharing tea from papa's and dadaji's cup, eating aalu and other sabji from daadi's plate, marie biscuits from maa, rusk and bread from dadaji and maa, curd from nani and yes last but not the least kada prasad at bade mandir...
woh bacha jo meethi cheeze ghar be nahi khaata hai  eats kada prasad halwa at bade mandir like anything... we stop feeding her kada after some time as it is rich in ghee but my bachu can go on and on eating kada.. that's indeed Guruji's kripa on her... aur kyon naa ho after all Devaangi hai to Guruji ki blessings to us...
well i need to rush now as my bacha is hungry and her khitchri is waiting for her on the table... bachu has started protesting now….