She walks now, and when she tries to run and falls down, she gets back up and off she goes to another adventure. The baby who wouldn’t crawl on her fours till almost 11 months doesn’t stand still for a minute. For a long time, she crawled on her tummy – like a wiggly worm, slowly and steadily she went from one toy to another, from one corner of the living room to other. Then she pulled herself on her fours’ and started crawling around – she would go a little further, then go back on her tummy, wiggle around a little bit and then back again on her fours. And now she is everywhere. Takes few steps, starts running and then falls down and gets up and repeat. She has a little baby tummy, which I love to the hilt, love blowing raspberries on that, so when she walks – it always looks like the tummy is leading the way followed by her legs, and because of that she is very wobbly – but does that make her stop? No way, she doesn’t care.
She loves climbing the stairs on her knees and hands. With hardwood floors all over, I am amazed by her determination and her resolve – I don’t know how her knees don’t hurt going over the stairs. I tried and gave up within few steps but she strides on. Finally a month ago, we put up baby gates, just didn’t want her venturing out on her own on the stairs and getting hurt. But that doesn’t thwart her, if we leave the gate open even slightly, she chances on the opportunity either to go up or to close the gate herself.
She wants what her brother eats, even things which are difficult for her to chew – she will throw a fit if we don’t give her. The other day, Nonu was coughing, so we gave him cough medicine and Nivi threw a tantrum when we didn’t give it to her too. She loves her milk, had no trouble transitioning from formula to whole milk. Every few hours or so, she will lie down on her monkey pillow in the living room and drink her milk on her own. It melts my heart when I see her getting so self-sufficient, how did that happen so soon?
She knows the tones for some popular nursery rhymes – Ba Ba black sheep, ABCD and so on, and so many times I hear her babbling words to their tunes, and the moment I take my phone out to record, she stops.
She loves going to day care, typically never cries when we leave her in the morning, and when I go to pick her in the evening, the moment she sees me she starts crying –asking to be picked up. And from the time she is crawling/ walking, she will crawl over toys, pillows towards me making it one of the best moments of any given day, when I hold her, all my work tension disappears, as I revel in her baby warmth and her baby smell and I just wish that time would stop and linger here for a little longer so that I get to enjoy this phase of hers.
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