A week at home

This week has passed by very quickly. After the initial flurry of visitors on Saturday and Sunday, I have got the time to settle down at home, so that Amma and Appa can figure out my schedule and adjust accordingly. So here is my schedule give and take a half hour to an hour: 6a-8a - play, 8-9 feed and take a short nap, 9-11 - play, have bath, feed. 11-3 - take a longish nap. 3-4 feed and complete the long nap. 4-8 - play, have massage, feed. 8-4 - sleep with maybe one or two feeds in the middle of the night depending on how hungry I feel. 4-6 - feed and complete my night sleep to be ready and awake to play again :-) Ofcourse changing diapers happens very often during the day.

I have started exploring my fingers, palms, hands and enjoy tasting them. Am making nice smacking noises. Some people think it is because I am hungry, but actually I do it just for fun and because it helps me get familiar with my hands....they are so cool, i can use them to push things, hold things, grab etc. I am still learning how to hold something and bring it closer to me like me favorite rattle and toy hyena, but I am not yet there. I grab some parts of the toys, but they slip through my small hands. I have also started to put my fingers around the feeding bottle. Just to feel that I am holding it. Amma and Appa also think that I do some really cool poses with my hands. Amma is going crazy taking pictures!

Another thing I can do now is to roll from my tummy to my back at times. I did that a few times, but my head is still not fully stable, so I sometimes go "dong" on my head and someone always try to be around when I do that so that I do not get hurt. I am also listening to a lot of songs, I love when Amma sings - biggy biggy bump bump, and dhire se aaja ri akhiyan mein. For the first song I smile a lot, and for the second I go to sleep :-) I am also listening to other songs and I am sure there will be more favorites coming along. Appa has been a bit busy at work, but he plays with me every morning.

What else has happened.... life goes by so quickly when you are a 5 month old, and every day is such a new day and full of adventures that one tends to forget what happened :-) So long for the next post. Bye! Oh and check my photos link, i have some new ones....

My first two days

Okay, so I have been with Amma (Mom) and Appa (Dad) for two days now, got home on friday afternoon after a long journey! And phew it has been busy since. I have had a constant stream of visitors. But the nice thing is that I absolutely feel no pressure to entertain them, i do whatever i want to, so if they do not see me awake and active, sorry, me not worrying...While it has been fun to see new faces, it is also very tiring! Amma and Appa tell me that I have been sleeping a lot, especially in the nights - more than they thought I would :-) So guess what, because they think they are not as tired as they thought they would be, amma and appa get the time to write this on my behalf and include some pictures, while i sleep peacefully. lets see how long I and they continue this. You know all of us are unreliable in our own ways :)

So these are the people I have met so far - Siva, Ramu thatha (grandpa), Meena Patti (grandma), Shanti Patti, Shilpa, kamala patti, our neighbors, rangashree, shaila, srini, kanchana, soumya patti, vichhu thatha, subha perima, pradeep peripa, sandhya akka, chinchu, priya... phew! i am tired of keeping track... Sandhya akka wanted me to get up, walk, and run today itself :-) She also got me a walker and I am waiting to use it as soon as I can.

Anyways, I had my first bath at home today and also turned over without getting my hand and elbow stuck under me several times in the morning. I totally enjoyed my bath and only cried for a very short while when Amma was washing my face. I love the 10Rs/- rattle that appa got for me, it is orange and yellow and very colorful. So amma and appa have decided that I am not getting any expensive rattles that make very little noise! Orange also seems to be my favorite color for now because I like a plastic orange spotted hyena that Amma got for me and the orange paper ribbons on the wall. Oh, so anything that moves, is colorful, and makes noise is what interests me the most right now.

Other usual stuff - i feed, poop, pee, sleep, play, smile, coo. I love cooing and smiling unexpectedly to see how everyone reacts. Right now I am not giving them any hint of a pattern for my cooing and smiling. No logic, only spontaneity! Amma and appa are absolutely thrilled to see me in all kinds of sleeping positions - sideways (mostly on the left), with three fingers in my mouth, with my hand on my forehand, eyelids half closed, and so on. You get the idea....I love holding Amma's hand (and for that matter any one's hand) tightly to play with. And Appa thinks that he can put me to sleep just by moving his hand down my face. And guess what, I also saw sridhar mama on the computer. Oh what can I say, life is very very interesting and busy.

Okay, so here are some pictures that you would enjoy.....

5 months

More Later.....