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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!!!

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.

Johny Johny yes papa ha ha ha

Since the very beginning we have been singing nursery rhymes to bacha. Few of these are johny johny yes papa, humpty dumpty, twinkle twinkle and so on.

Johny johny  waali rhyme is used a lot while feeding bacha. Moment we would say open your mouth line, bacha would actually open her mouth and like smart people we would use this opportunity to put food in her mouth. Probably bacha over the period has realized what we try to do so she has learnt the last part of the rhyme that is ha ha ha. Haan ji bachaji has started recognizing rhymes. Moment we start singing johny johny and give pause after a line she promptly says ha ha ha!!!

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!!!!