Chhavi's Faves

Chhavi has a set pattern of favorites now.

Earlier she used to be pretty moody when it comes to food. If she likes something today, she doesnt like the same food tomorrow or the day after. It goes something like this: She likes something on day one. On day two, if she is in a good mood, she will like anything given to her. She will love the food she had on day one. But if she's in a bad mood, she will hate anything given to her and she will unwillingly eat what she had on day one. This is just how she is built. LOL. Unlike me, who has a favorite set of foods, and I will have them whatever the situation is. Even if I am completely full, I'll still manage to take a bite or two, just bcoz I love something.

Anyways, here goes nothing:

Favorite Fruits: Grapes and now that its mango season - mangoes.

Favorite Vegetables: Cauliflower / Beans - can you imagine a kid liking beans ?? She not-so-grudgingly eats potatoes too. Oh and she likes raw jack-fruit also.

Favorite Color: Pink (I think) and blue. Sometimes brown - seriously ?? brown ?? What kid loves the color brown ?

Favorite Activity: Swimming classes, Dance classes, and sometimes coloring. Doesn't watch a lot of TV (Thank God for that). She loves to play outside with the neighbor kids.

Favorite TV Show: Animal Planet (She loves to watch and name the animals). Only twice or thrice a week during breakfast or lunch time.

Favorite Snack: Biscuits, Cheeselings

Favorite Dessert: Laddoo, Icecream

Favorite Cartoon: Chota Bheem, Tom and Jerry

She also loves chocolates, candies, fritters, crafts, doodling, painting (and by that I mean smearing paint or water on the paper) etc., but then is there a kid that doesnt love the above stuff ?

6th month milestones

Viaan turned 6 months on the 2nd of Jan. He has become super mobile right now. He has started crawling on his tummy now. He doesn't stay put in one place. The moment I put him on the ground, he rolls over onto his tummy in a jiffy and quickly looks around to see if he finds anything interesting. He then makes a beeline for it, pulling his tummy on the ground and he is at the target in a few secs - super speedy.

Also, he hates to sleep. He was always a light sleeper, but he hates to sleep now. When he gets super sleepy - he's rubbing his eyes madly but the minute I try to pat him, he fights back furiously... flapping his arms and legs and pushing my hands away and opens his eyes wide as though he was never sleepy at all. He hates it when I try to pat him to sleep and it literally takes me around 45 mins to an hour to put him to bed. And all this effort for nothing, he is up and about within the next 5 - 10 mins. Very rarely does he sleep at a stretch of 30 mins and that is heaven for me. (NOT REALLY - not when Chhavi is around).

Another milestone he reached when he cries, he calls out 'amma' or 'mumma'. Its so nice to hear him call me. Although maybe he still doesn't intend to be calling me, but its still pleasant on the ears.

He is in the "tasting" phase now. He puts anything and everything into his mouth. Anything new going into his hands need to be sterilised. Because, the second its in his hand, its in his mouth the very next second. And he ferociously bites on it. I suspect he might be teething although its still too early to tell.

We have started him off on solid foods. Another first for this month was that he stayed alone with his grandparents and aunt for 2 nights when we took a short break and traveled to Kerala. I was so worried about leaving him behind, because he is almost always cranky. Somehow in between my mom and my sis, they managed to take care of his needs. Thanks to both of them. We definitely needed that break. So it was a first for him to stay away from us. Chhavi stayed away from us only at the age of 2.5 yrs.