My mommy's birthday

Today is my mommy's birthday and so this post. She says today has been the best birthday of her life, because of my toothless smiles, giggles, and grins which I give her whenever she talks to me. And that is how the day started today for her, like the other days. I recognize her these days very well and follow her movements a lot. Whenever she is talking to me or playing with me I love it and I smile, giggle, and grin. Of course she has been trying to capture that grin using the camera, but who said I will grin for the camera :-) For now, I just stare at the camera!

I have been doing lots of new things lately. I have started eating multigrain porridge and I love it. Sridhar mama has been here this whole week and I am having a lot of fun with him. One more person to play with. I have started recognizing some people on my daily evening walk with Amma. I am also reaching out for toys, grabbing them, and bringing them to my mouth, so much so that I want to hold one toy in both my hands. I am also making new sounds to show that I want to be lifted, held, taken from one room to another and so on. Well that is my way of communicating you see.

Amma and Appa are also seeing my mischievous and loud side and I have gotten many new names in addition to Nidhi - drool baby, giggles, chu-chu queen, jerry (from tom and jerry), nibbles (jerry's cousin who loves to eat anything and everything), little mesmerizer, and many more that I cant seem to remember because Amma and Appa just make them up spontaneously as and when they are cuddling me.

Alright, I am off to sleep after that last meal and this post.

Smiles and giggles

Lots has happened since the last post. I have started smiling, giggling, and kicking my arms and legs to express my excitement, happiness, joy whenever I feel so. Sometimes I feel that way when someone is talking to me, showing me a toy, or singing a song and at other times I feel that way for reasons that amma and appa do not understand :-) And I do not have words to explain it to them yet. So it will remain a mystery and sometimes that is okay. Not everything has to be connected to a reason/cause. Amma says I look totally gleeful when I am doing this.

I also am beginning to recognize specific toys - a fish rattle, whoozit, and the yellow-orange rattle and try to grab them, hold them tightly, and taste them (yes!) when they are close to me. Right now I am in drool phase. Love drooling and tasting everything that is around me. That includes my fingers, anyone else's fingers that I can get hold of, handkerchiefs, pieces of cloth, toys, and anything else that comes my way. I am also beginning to hold the bottle when I am being fed and sometimes playing with it is more fun than feeding :-)

Oh, one thing that both amma and appa like is me doing pbthbthth with my mouth/lips. It's real fun and I do it quite often. I have also started making sounds like - awww, yah, agoo, gaw, etc etc. My neck is getting a lot of exercise these days because there is so much to look around, i keep looking from left to right, right to left, left to right. And I watch very very carefully when Amma sings Insy Weensy (in English and Tamil) with her fingers. Love watching her fingers move.

I also love to touch amma and appa's face when they bring it close to me. I grab their nose, their cheeks and try to bring it close to me so I can taste it. But so far I have not been able to. [Amma's note - Definitely not giving her my fingers or nose to taste....although I must say it is a wonderful feeling to have Nidhi explore my face with her fingers.... A baby's gentle firm touch :)]

Well that is all for now from me. Till the next update.