LO#2 Updates

Haven't been blogging regularly and plan to do so henceforth.

I have been so busy with managing both the kids that it has drained out every bit of energy from me. I am sure most of you (with kids) would understand how that works.

My day starts at 6.30 am, when I snooze the alarm and sleep once again and then wake up at 6.45 am. Have to get ready by 8 - 8.30 am, by which time I leave for work. Meantime its chaos at home. Cooking, getting the kids ready etc., etc., My LO#1 is the one who always take a hell lot of time  to get ready (between all the crying and crankiness of waking up early - she absolutely hates it - she loves her beauty sleep more than anything in the world). I travel around 2 - 2.5 hrs to drop off the kids to school and get to work. Then I try to leave early to pick up the kids on the way back and get them home early. But the traffic in Bangalore is so bad, so we are exhausted by the time we get home and then the usual chaos once again, with feeding the kids, getting them ready to bed etc., etc., In the midst of all this, its tough to find even a minute to myself.

Anyways, less about me, more about lo#2.

Viaan, you are a super hyper active kid now that you are 2 yrs old. Hence the huge gap in blogging until now. You don't sit quiet even for a minute and demand a lot of attention as you are very accident prone. You are super intelligent and can grasp things immediately.

Although you started speaking late, now you are picking up words pretty fast. Your pronunciation is not that clear, but you repeat everything that we say. You hate being disturbed when you are playing. You hate when Chhavi even touches you sometimes. She means well, she loves to hug you and kiss you, but you have to avoid her first. Once we explain to you that she wants to kiss you or hug you, then only you allow her to do so. She always asks us to put you to bed next to her, but even in your sleep, you dont like if she puts her hand on you by accident.

You are a very sensitive sleeper and as always wake up at the slightest sound. You are getting better at your sleep, but if you are sick, you dont sleep very well and wake up atleast 3 - 4 times at night. When me or your pappa are putting you to bed, you always ask for the other one - just to avoid being put to bed I guess.

Some of your favourites:

Food item: Dosa, Paddu

Snack item: Cream Biscuit

Fruit: Papaya

Vegetable: Potato and Carrot (which you also call potato)

Game: Running around and cooking with Akka's cooking range

Toy: Trucks and buses, animal toys

Gadget: Mamma's or pappa's phone

Activity: Taking pics from our phones

Animal: Bow (means dog) and Bullu (means billu - cat)

You love taking rides on the bike - you will go with anyone that asks you. You love to travel outside. You hate being inside the house. You love to spend time with the neighbouring kids. You do not like to be confined inside the house. You always want to be roaming around.

There is a lot more to write, but for now, Ill stop the post here. Ill keep writing more.

So long.