The First Tooth

Our little baby N just cut his first tooth and for once I was correct about all the signs ! He has been drooling, biting, fussing a little and getting up randomly at night. So finally yesterday I spotted a white spot and had daddy and grandma confirm before getting really excited about it.

I am sure the drooling days and sleepless nights will continue for a while, but seeing that first pearly white was a lovely surprise ! I am now looking forward to his next milestone (will it be crawling or will it be starting solids ?).

YAY for the first tooth !

Our Little Teacher - Part 2

I was spending a relaxing morning with R doing his favorite doodling activity. I was doing Make-A-Match game with him on the doodle board. I listed down 4 colors on the left side of the board and 4 animals on the right side and I asked him to make a match. The colors were (Yellow, Brown, Grey and Red) and on the other side I had (Elephant, Duck, Elmo and Bear). R looked at the board for a minute and then asked me what "Grey" was. He looked at it and said "Green?". I think he thought Mommy made a mistake. So I told him it was the color "Grey". There was a pause and some deep thinking and then "Mommy, this should be an 'a' ". I asked him to spell the word for me and he said "Gray". I was taken by surprise and got a little confused about the spelling myself. So I called daddy and asked him and he was not sure too. R insisted that it was Gray so we ended up googling the word. Turns out "Grey" and "Gray" are both correct. "Grey" is the British version and "Gray" is the American. We were both right in our own ways :). R was beaming with pride when we told him he was right !

I am getting very nervous about doing these activities with him :).

Our Little Teacher

Recently, we have been deliberately making mistakes so that R can correct us. It started as a way to make him talk. We noticed that he would respond better when he knew we were wrong. A good way to make him read a page would be by saying "Spot bakes an apple" instead of "Spot bakes a cake". He would literally jump and say "No Mommy, Thats Spot bakes a cake". Occasionally we also get the "C'mon Mommy you can do better" looks as well :).

On one such occasion he surprised daddy. Daddy was trying to get him ready in the morning and R was just not co-operating. So Daddy said "Is there a T in sleep". He looked at Daddy and said "T makes the "Teh" sound. There is no Teh sound in sleep. There is a Teh sound in STOP. Then he spelled out S-T-O-P. And then went on to spell out sleep "S-L-E-E-P'. I am sure he gave the "See, wasn't that easy" expression to Daddy.

Cute/Funny Phrases by R

R has been talking a lot lately. Here are some cute/funny phrases he has been using. All we can do is sit and laugh rather than get angry at him.

At 10:00 pm in the night:
How could you be so tired Daddy ?

Monday morning blues:
It is too hot today - no kindercare (his daycare)

On Daddy asking R: What rhymes with apple?
Keep trying daddy, you will get it !

On praising him for doing something nice.
Want to give me a hug?

The First Rollover

Our baby N rolled over for the first time last weekend at 16 weeks. He likes it so much that he has already mastered it and starts rolling over the moment you lay him down on a flat surface. The poor chap had been trying for the past 2-3 weeks but wasn't able to remove his hand completely. Then finally on a bright Saturday morning he did it and we only saw it after the feat was complete :). He is now trying to push himself forward and gets frustrated when he doesn't move at all. We have been explaining to him that crawling is months away and there is absolutely no hurry ! His life will be easy if only he could understand us.

I am now back at work and can only hope that I don't miss his next milestone.

Father's Day Celebration

Up until now I never did anything special on Father's day. However, since this year was special for us (R turned 3 and we got our little bundle of joy N) I thought it would be fun to do something and maybe even start a tradition. I ended up buying a hallmark voice recordable card after watching their TV commercial. I then spent a good 30 minutes trying to get R to say something nice. It was a fun-filled 30 minutes as he kept saying silly things to hear his own voice. I wanted to get him to simply say "I love you daddy". We ended up recording "I love you daddy, Good job Mommy ". For some reason he couldn't stop saying "Good job, Mommy". I thought it would be funny for daddy to hear that as well. I even managed to get R to write "Daddy" and sign his name on the insides of the card. In addition to the card I got a personalized frame saying 'You are the best Dad" with R and N's names embossed on it. On Father's day I made R give the gift bag to daddy and say
"Happy Father's Day !".

This year was also additionally special for me as my dad was spending time with us. We ended up spending the day in Napa valley where both the dad's did some wine tasting. All-in-all it was a memorable day and marked a good start to a tradition.

N gets angry !

For the past couple of days we noticed our baby N (who is almost 3 months now) getting angry ! Today in the morning grandma was putting him to sleep on her lap and she happened to sneeze. N was caught by surprise and he started crying loudly. I took him and managed to get him to stop crying. He, however, seemed to be pretty mad with her. He would start crying the moment he would see her. It was so funny to see his expressions change on seeing her. It took him a nap to forget what had happened. I guess we are going to see more such incidents in the coming days.