Little Avyaya wants to play :)

Lately Avyaya has started going downstairs to play with fellow kids. Amongst them one is Marcus who is 5 months younger than Avyaya and he is also Avyaya's play buddy. They Are very young  doesn't understand each other's language but yet they play together.  As Avyaya has fetish for cars which he calls  peepee, he will run away from the playing compound towards the car park and will touch each n every car parked. We literally have to drag hi back into the compound only to run back after him towards the parking area.  He would not ride the bicycle in an open area which he does in the enclosed area of our home. He will not play with ball, he will not play with peepee. He will only go and see the cars and jeeps parked outside .
Couple of days back , Avyaya was invited in Marcus' bday party. I was wondering how is he going to react, what will he do... So many ifs and what's and whys .. But when we went there I realized my little boy loves to be in the crowd ,enjoys the company of other kids and also attire same time he would play alone totally engrossed in whatever he is doing. He will not hog on cakes and pastries and juices. He would wait for me to give it to him.  His actions made me proud. All thanks to god. Nothing is my doing.

Avyaya's first trip to Tanzania

On 21st may 2014 , Avyaya and myself started from muscat to Tanzania . It's almost 7hours journey . I was paranoid as in, how will I manage my 2 years old super naughty son. I tried searching through net and also asked my friends and family members who had the experience of travelling with the toddlers.  I got some brilliant ideas. For example:-

Download some videos for your kid to watch while in the plane.

Take an empty bottle and 2-3 strips of stickers. Once in the plane , give them to the kid. It will keep him occupied for some time.

When air hostess starts serving drinks ask for an extra disposable glass , ice cubes and straws. Mostly the ice cubes have a whole in it so kids love to put the straw in it and pull .

Wrap small toys in a appear seperately like a gift. And give them to your kid one at a time. He will open the wrapper and play with the toy.opening the wrapper is fun game .

Take pencil colours or crayons along with asketch book.

These are few ideas I gathered. But I could use none. Thanks to the almighty! Avyaya was very well behaved and quiet the whole time.

He played with his toy cars and ate chips. Slept for an hour. And then played again.

2nd birthday of my little one.

Yesterday was Avyaya's second birthday . Since morning we were all busy with the preparations. We decided to have hawan In the morning so I made poori aaloo tamatar sa I and paneer matar . While kk went to the market and bought kk some decorating stuff and of course a peepee for Avyaya as a birthday gift. Around 11.45-12.00 noon pandit ji came with all the pooja samigri.by that time I was ready and so was Avyaya in his new yellow Tshirts n blue knickers.pooja hawan went very well. Avyaya took part in it as well. And was giving aahuti like we did. By two the pooja was over and offered lunch to pandit ji which he accepted. After lunch we all went to sleep and got up at 5 pm. Avyaya was still asleep and I decorated the room . Then Avyaya got up he played for a while. Then I bathe him and got him dressed for cake cutting. Our friends came with a big  peepee . Avyaya was very happy. He blew the candles , cut the cake and we all relished. Then all of us went to Begums . Where we had already booked the table. Avyaya was enjoying the day, I guess somehow he knew something special is there. :)
I taught him to answer if any one asks him how old are you? He will show index fingers of both the hands and say ...twooooo.
Happy birthday my bundle of joy.

Eating, skype , playing sleeping! :)

Now that I overcame my sadness which caused due to Avyaya's refusal to take my feed, I am so relieved to see him hugging me and sleeping.  The connection which I missed for couple of days has been restored , successfully !! ( missing connection! My assumption only!!) .  I did face a bit of problem for couple of days as Avyaya takes so much time to sleep. He wants his toy car, his ball and
his teddy bear with him. Though these things easily gets unnoticed and forgotten if not kept in the room. Out of sight out of mind !!!!
He is also learning to eat on his own, with spoon, by hand and with fork. His coordination is picking
up. Yesterday we ordered chicken ceaser salad which had lettuce leaves in it. I was astonished to see him poking the fork in the salad and picking it up still stuck in the fork and putting it in his mouth. Really!!!!!
If I say "I" he will complete it by saying "lub you". Lovely...isn't it?? He will get the iPad ,open the skype and say "nannni". Means, please call my nani (grandmother)I want to talk to her. We chat only on Saturdays and Sundays so at times it gets hard to make him understand that nani will come on
Saturday dear she is busy.
If he sees even the smallest of car picture. He will jump excitedly and say" peepee, peepee" even when we read newspaper he will search for the photo of a car and gets so happy if he sees one.
In the morning if he gets up before me , he will kiss me and hug me ... :) I wake up  overwhelmed with happiness.  After few months he will start going to play school and he will make new friends
there, I am so eager for that.
:)

Self-weaning ??!!!

Well !! Today is 7 th February and being a Friday it was a weekly off here in muscat , Oman . So my husband , Avyaya and myself went to the beach which is just 5 minutes walk from our place.

Avyaya always likes playing in sand and water. Initially he was too scared to even go near the waves but now he will drag me into the water as well.... :o . 

We went out shopping in the afternoon and then had a nap later. Ordered Chinese for dinner and which even Avyaya liked. 

My major concern came later at night when I realized that Avyaya is not feeding on my milk . He did that last night also and in the afternoon too. He had the habit of sleeping while feeding my milk. Which he didn't since yesterday night. OH MY GOD!!!!! I asked my husband to bring a warm milk in avyaya's feeding bottle. Thankfully he had some milk and after a  bit of  crying he went off to sleep. Then I sat and searched the net. " toddler stopped breast feeding suddenly ". I got various answers.like, he might be suffering from illness, teething or have I reprimanded recently. Did I???

Or it could be self weaning thing. Meaning he won't be taking my milk .. Which is good in a way but I did feel a bit of connection lost. I missed his hug while feeding. Missed big time. But I think it's good for him. It was my concern as how will I make him stop taking my milk. I was worried. Hah!! And now that he is not taking I m still worried. Never satisfied!! Goodness!!. I am going to wait for couple of days more. Let's see.

This is also the sign that he is growing up. I am happy for that. God bless him. :)

Badhta bachcha

For the past few days he has developed new behaviors and mannerisms. Greetings and wishes were always there in "jai" now he will put his hand on his mouth and give a flying kiss. He does that a lot to his nana and nani when we do video chatting. 

Whenever we are sitting or I am changing his clothes I sing nursery rhymes. Now he loves them. He will say baba baaeee means plz sing baba blacksheep. And when I say " three bags full" he will try to show the number three with his fingers though he shows all five fingers. And when I say "one for the little boy" he will put his hand on his head. Johnny johny is his another favorite rhyme "open your mouth" he will open his mouth wide. Lol.

Recently he was suffering from cold. So I used to wipe his running nose with a paper tissue. So now he would ask for the tissue "daa"(give) and when I give it to him he will wipe his nose and his hands with it and throw the used tissue in the dustbin.  One day I was having tea and I spilled a bit he ran and got me a towel to wipe it. His dad came out after washing his face he was standing with a towel in his hand.if he will spill water he will wipe it immediately. He is growing up so fast. God bless him.

He tries to eat with spoon and by gods grace the coordination is good. Spills very little. 

Love watching him the whole day. :)

"Happy Noe Eer" :)

That's what Avyaya wished everyone on New Years with his Bhangra mixed dance. He has developed his communication skill quiet well. I pray to baba to shower his blessings on him always. :) 

His dad bought  2 small cars one in red and other one in yellow. When he bought it that time Avyaya was too young and threw the cars away. Now he understands what is it. His  "pipi". He will always carry it in his hands while playing of course, also while eating and sitting and at times while sleeping. Set of planes gifted to him by his nana nani is the other fetish he has. "Peene" that's what he calls them.

Recently I have noticed that he has developed the habit of making cans standing vertically on top of each other. He will open the "peedge" (fridge) and take out the small cans of sodas and use them as blocks to elevate them perpendicularly. Now I am thinking of buying him a set of blocks with the pictures on it so that he can play with them instead of denting soda cans. 

Everyday I see him growing up and learning something new. It's so much fun.