Milestone alert!!! :)

and no it is not Bub's milestone! The lazy bum has only just turned on her side and has learnt to exercise her vocal chords the moment she is left alone in the room! Sigh! She is also dazzling us with her smiles and thinks she can get away with murder with those. Oh Well! She actually can if she wants! :)


This post is for Cub. We have treated Cub's past 2 years at school with complete nonchalance. The intention was for him to have fun, learn to interact with other kids and if he manages to get some education while at it, that was just a bonus!


That also means we have never done any "homework" with him or actively taught him anything. So imagine our surprise when we saw him do this!

Look ma! I can write! :)


We told him the spelling a few times, but now he can write it on his own by memory. And we have never ever practiced writing with him etc. So its all school and his effort. Few times he would come and ask how to write a particular alphabet and we would hold his hand and write it once or twice. So we are super proud! :)

Thats an elephant! 



One end is trunk and another is tail! Dont ask which one is which! ;)

Now that is a recognizable flower! :)

Shhh! Do not disturb! Am on a con-call.


Yes, he does as many con-calls as his papa. And does it quite sincerely too with his kingfisher headphones and going tippity tap on his toy laptop keyboard! :)


He has also been going Smart Alec-y on us every now and then and I wish i had noted down the stuff he keeps coming up with.


Just coupla days ago, he had a severe case of loosies. Next day he wanted to go out with his Papa. M told him what if you do potty on the road. Cub shot back with "I am a cow or a dog or what?!" Errrr... sorry!


M got him this cute superman tee with a cape n all. He wore it the other day and M told him why don't you fly us to such and such place instead of going by car. He retorts "Papa, maine sirf superman ke kapde pehene hai! I am not asli superman!" and gave him a look! Errr...  sorry again!


He is all grown up now and is equally painful and delightful in turns! He still refuses to say his Thank You and Please. He whines like it is going out of fashion and cries for most annoying things. But on the whole he is still a very nice kid! :p He has a vivid imagination and can keep himself occupied with his cars and animals and making up stories around them for hours sometimes. He thrives on positive responses and is yet to learn how to accept a No with grace. But then he is just 3 and a 1/2 years old! I tend to forget that most of the times! :D


Among other news, I have quit working after 11 long years (last 5 of those at one place) and i really hope i enjoy this stint as a SAHM considering i never saw myself as one! :) So wish me luck!


And how have you folks been? Waiting for the big match on Wednesday?! And what plans during school vacays?


Stay cool and happy! :)


Cheers!

ps: Thank you Tanay and Shweta for that gift! The magnetic slate. I have not seen any other gift used as much! :)

baal baal NAHI bache, bacche ke! :(

Kabir turned ONE yesterday, 20th of July 2008! A long and meandering post about his 12 months of existence is to be done. But right now I am too tired from the hatke celebrations we had and too sleepy to do justice to this miracle in our life! :)

Belated Happy Birthday you l'il big boy! Just seeing you grow the way you are makes life so totally worth it! Rock On!

Every kid has his/her Cute Factor! For Cubby apart from his 440watts smile, it has been his very unruly and curly mop of hair! :) I love them too, his soft brown curls! They make him look adorable and baby like!



But his hair that looked liked Albert Einstein who is on permanent diet of Center Shock was really getting wilder by the day. Add to that the fact that he feels really hot, a head full of hair that gets all sweaty and wet really doesn't help.


There was a mundan in the offing, but somehow it never happened. I had no intention of making Cubby wear a pony tail 'coz the mundan if not before he turns one, can happen only after he completes two! Sigh!

So his daadi mentioned that Thursday was a good day and that we should at least snip off bit of his hair and keep it in front of god and then she will offer at Balaji temple in Pune later. Whatever the logic! :)

Wondering if we should take him to a salon since I really don't trust ourselves with scissors. Plus Cubby is so much more wriggly now and the chances they we might hurt him made it even more difficult.


Nonetheless, we decided to give it a shot! M wet his hair totally. We made him sit on the newspaper and started on the mission. I combed his hair trying to match the actions of apna regular hairdresser! :p But then i had to give Cubby the comb to keep him distarcted with something he hadn't played with before.


I "expertly" took some of his hair between by fingers and went Snip! Snip! Snip! Cubby was bit surprised to see me putting his hair on the newspaper, but he thankfully didn't worry too much about it and let me go on and about the job while playing with the comb. I am sure he was wondering "My crazy parents doing one more stupid thing. Let them be!"

Then Daddy dearest got bored of being the assistant who was distracting the child when kangha failed! "Even I want to cut!" demanded M. Roles reversed till he got to cut a few locks 'coz Mommy dearest isn't well versed in the art of distraction the way papa is!


Snip! Snip! Snip! A little from here and a little from there M kept instructing and I followed the instructions.

Final trimming done and one look at Cubby and we were shocked!!!!!


My l'il baby was replaced with a l'il boy!! The wild, curly mop that made him look like a baby was just gone. He looked so grown up, that we couldn't recognise him as the l'il CubbyR with his mane!

We were quite proud of a job well done, at the same time very sad to see the babyness lost with just a haircut! :( Both of us are wondering even now, if he will regrow curly hair, but I doubt that will happen!


He has even been acting all grown up! I wonder if he understands that he has indeed become a bada baccha and needs to act his age which is now spoken about in years!

So here's presenting the all NEW Kabir! :)













Love ya lots and pots my darling One Year Old! :) With or without those curly locks!


But please to not grow up so quick, OK?!


mmmuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!