Devaangi and Shivaangi- God's Precious Gifts

This blog is all about the apple of our eyes -our daughters Devaangi & Shivaangi
Devaangi means part of God and Shivaangi means part of lord Shiva.
True to the meaning of their names both our girls are God’s gift who have totally transformed our lives!!!
With this blog i intend to capture and share the joy and happiness arising from smallest of pranks, tear, anxiety and everything else that both our kids have filled our each day as they grow!!

Mar 21, 2013

Monkey in making

As it is increasingly becoming difficult for me to lift Devaangi while climbing the stairs( due to my present medical condition), bachu climbs up and down the stairs on her own while holding on to mom’s finger. She thoroughly enjoys doing the same. When we reach the landing to our home, bachu at times is still not satisfied with all the climbing done and wants to go to the next floor as well!!! Mumma upper jaana hai!!!!

It’s been months when bacha has learnt to get onto and down from the bed, sofas, dining chairs- no matter how high it is. If while trying to get down, her feet do not touch the floor, she holds tightly to the fabroc or the bedcover and slowly lowers herself down till she is able to reach safe grounds..

Aaj to daadaji was teaching bachu how to climb the grill of the dining room window. Bachu enjoyed the whole exercise a lot and soon was going up and down the grill with dadaji’s support.

At this rate she’ll soon be out in the children’s park getting up and down all slides and bars and jungle gyms..

Love for chocolates and toffees

Despite our trying to control tightly the amount of toffees and chocolates that bachu gets to eat, the people at daycare ensure that Devaangi has a fair share of these to an extent that bachu can differentiate between a chocolate and toffee. Moment she spots a toffee or a chocolate, Devaangi promptly starts demanding the same- toffee chaahiye and if required throw tantrums as well. Devaangi realized that the rationed toffees given to her were kept at a particular place. Whenever she wants to eat toffees she goes straight to that particular cupboard where toffees are kept and demands that the cup… In the board be opened and toffees given to her!! Aaj to hadh hi ho gayi while I was going to drop her in the car at the daycare, I opened the glovebox to take out my sunglasses. Phir kyat ha bachu spotted a pack of orange toffees in the glove box and demanded the same. I gave bachu a single toffee but eventually hand to hand over the complete sealed packet to her. When I went in the evening to pick up bachu, she sat in the car and promptly asked me to open the glove box and started searching for the pack of toffees which obviously were not there.

3 days back me and bachu were returning home after dropping dad at the Bikaner house and on our way I picked up 2 chocolates- one for bachu and another one for me. I gave bachu one chocolate and opened the other one to eat the same. Bachu created so much hulla on seeing the second chocolate. The only way I could continue driving was after giving that second chocolate to bachu. Abhi se yeah haal hai to aage kya hoga especially when all 3 of us (ma, papa and bachu) are so fond of chocolate.

Talking continues

Bachu kept the keys on the table and very nicely asked me: chaabi kahan hai? When I repeated the same to her she very nicely said ‘room mein hai’. Likewise there are other sentences that bachu is trying to speak. The other day she tore some part of the govinda’s (tirupati balaji) calendar and since then whenever bachu remembers what she did, she says ‘puchu govinda faara’.

Moment we reach home and bachu spots the bell she starts off bellbaja karna hai which means she wants to ring the bell.

On asking papa kahan hai her prompt reply when she is not able to spot papa around is either ‘papa offish (office) gaya’ or ‘room mein hai’.

This is how bachu is adding words to her vocabulary and trying her hands on speaking full sentences.

Catching up time- series 6

Maalish teil maalish
As the weather is changing , bachu’s is enjoying her maalish and bath time more and more. All she has to do is spot the bottle of oil and with a lightning speed bachu gets hold of the oil bottle aur phir uska record shuru ho jaata hai—mumma teil maalish.. She is able to connect the oil bottle to the massage session that is going to follow.

Best was on last birthday me and bachu were at naani house. I was doing bachu’s teil maalish and in between was also attending phone calls that were coming nonstop. Somewhere in between probable bachu realized that maa is not able to do justice to the maalish so she took charge- poured some oil on her hands and tried to apply them on her legs and arms!!!! Man that was a scene to witness especially the naughty smile on bachu’s face all the while she was trying to do her own teil maalish.

With the changing weather bachu is also enjoying her bath time with her bath toys and water. Bachu loves to hold the soap in hand and play with her duckies, fish, pigges and what not. She loves to play with the water in the mug or the bucket and doesn’t want to come out of the bathroom.

Another thing that bachu is fond of is washing her hands. Bachu needs and excuse to get into the bathroom and wash her hands.

Magical Moments with my bachu
Just as I am penning my magical moments with bachu, I am sitting on the bed with my back resting against the headstand; bachu is sitting right behind me, playing with the electric switches at the back. She is hugging maa, pulling my hair and also trying to bite my Head!! Yes you got it right bachu is trying to bite my head with her tiny teeth!!!. She is sitting on my tummy, holding my fingers and doing doom doom doom…. i.e. going back and forth and enjoying the swing. These are actually the moments I crave for- when bachu is in full mood to love maa and play with her- hugging me, kissing me, laughing uncontrollably, holding me tight and just be around me doing as much masti as she wants!!

Mar 20, 2013

I can talk talk and talk…

Bachu is a complete chatterbox. Now a days she babbles a lot as bachu is trying to speak complete sentences. Her vocabulary s increasing like anything with each passing day. Bachu is a poora rattu tota (parrot). She has to repat what you say to her.

Few things she says on her own:

Aapko kela khaana hai – when she wants to eat anything (replace Kela with the name of that thing)

Darwaza band – When she finds a closed door

Khul gaya- when bachu wants any bottle, container to be opened

Dudu peena hai- when bachu is hungry and wants milk

Mummy idhaar aao- she really orders maa around

Khaana lag gaya hai-calling out to every one for dinner

Plane gaya- on seeing a plane fly by

How r you

I am fine thank you

Jai guruji

Kicchi khaani hai

Iddi khanni hai

Aapey khaana hai – when she wants to eat on her own

Bell baje no no – on anting to ring the door bell

No no

Nahi- for everthing that she wants tro say no for

Papa office- on asking where is papa

Baar jana hai- whenever she wants to go out

Walky walky karo- whenever she wants to go out

Aadi bhaiya baat karni hai- on wanting to talk on phone

Chanda maama aaya

Sundar hai

Micchi hai

Paani chaahiye

Chahiye

Ghar aa gaya

Daadaji ghar aaye

Mummy ki caar

Papa ki caar

Ooo chaahiye

Upper jaana hai

Neeche jaana hai

Gatti baba moniya- ganpati bappa moray

Daadi paas jaana hai

Mataji ki sotti

Chota baby kahan hai

So ja

Dolly neeno aayi

…. And the list goes on……

In addition bachu can recite following poems: twinkle twinkle little star, jingle bell, johny johny yes papa, baba black sheep, row row row your boat, ladkri ki kaathi- all on her own and also including the jhoote maaiya machli khilaya, machli gayi paani lota padh ke laani, lota gaya pajh, puchu gayi raj!!

Bachu also knows gayatri mntra and guruji ka matra and can recite the same along with counting from 1-10(with minor mistakes and prompts of course)

I had composed the following lullaby for bachu

Neeno raani aaja

Pucha ko sulaja

Pucha nino karegi

Mummy ke saath soyegi

Chanda mama aayega

Khoob khilone laayega

Dodh malai layega

Puchu ko khilayega

Pucha nino karegi

Mummy ke saath soyegi

Aaj ki date mein whenever puchu wants to sleep she says mummy “chanda mama” which means that I must sing out this lullaby to bachu. Till date I switch off the lights, hand over the milk bottle to bachu and tell her “ puchu chanda mama kehta hai dudu piyo” and guess what bachu takes to the bottle and falls asleep

Best is that bachu stared calling me and papa by our names. She calls out to chetan as che- taan and me as saati. With the passage of times bachu calls out to papa as papa only par with every passing day mummy is majorly being replaced by saati… Bachu simply orders me around- saati idhaar aao, saati dudu peena hai, saati aapko kela khaana hai and so on…… You should listen to the authority in bachu’s voice….

To be continued...

Mar 19, 2013

Catching up time- series 5

My caring bacha
Couple of days while on our way back I told bacha “mamma kaa hand pain kar raha hai , isko pucha kar do”, and you won’t believe bacha gently caressed my hand at regular intervals till we reached home J

Not only this when at times I tell bacha ki mamma ko neenoo kara do, then bacha actually covers me with her blanket(mama rajai le lo) and pats me all the while saying ‘mamma so jao”. By the way on asking bacha to make any of her toys like her dolly, lion or doggie sleep, she does the same. More often than not bachu is all out to feed you instead of having stuff herself. She’ll pick up a grape and put it in our mouth and so on with other food articles.

One can also rely on bachu for some help at times. Once the dinner is served on the table, I ask bachu to go and call every one. Bachu promptly goes calling out to each one of us “daadaji khaana lag gaya hai” and so one to each person.

If bachu is in a mood she can also be relied upon for delivering stuff to people around. If you pick up say daadaji’s cell and ask bachu to give it to daadaji, bachu will go to daadaji , hand him over his phone and say daadaji aaka phone.

This Sunday I went to the balcony to put some clothes for drying and you know who help me in this chore- Devaangi. Ji haan Devaangi hkept handing meover all clothes one by one for putting them up for drying and also tried to carry the bucket back (Par kar naa saki J )

On asking bachu to keep a thing at a particular place or get a stuff she does that as well.

I am sure bachu is gonna help maa a lot when she grows up!!