Chittu is completely bottle fed now. I stopped nursing once she completed 10 months in September 2011. She had pretty sharp teeth and bit me many a times in glee or unintentionally that I decided enough was enough. She didn’t make a big fuss about the weaning as I had the bottle ready, the moment she was feeling restless during sleep. It had been Aavin all along, just that during the Trichy trip I gave her Arjun brand milk as Aavin Tetrapack was not available. Luckily she did not show any signs of allergy (The puking was with Aavin milk K )
She mostly sleeps throughout the night, though a little erratic. Initally, after having her night milk at 10 PM, she used to cry for milk at around 1 AM and again at 5 AM. After a month or so, the pattern changed – It was 10 PM and after that 5 AM. Again after another month, cycle changed – 11PM – 3 AM – 6 AM. Now for the past 1 month it is 11PM – 5.30 AM. It doesn’t really depend upon how full her stomach is during the nights. I don’t know what is the influencing factor. May be that is why they say – As I mentioned in A&A’s blog – Raising kids is not an easy job!! During the nights, boiling the milk is my duty and holding the bottle is S’s duty. And night milk – I avoid sugar to get her used to it too. I am trying to graduate her from bottle to sipper without any luck.
V athai gave Chittu a 3 wheeler cycle – handed down by S paapa (Let us call her Shibu from now on). Chittu loves the cycle and we go rounds inside the house / terrace. She would be delighted & grinning wide once we move it as she doesn’t know to pedal yet. All 4 athais together had presented her a silver thandai & anklets for her aayushyahomam. Chittu had outgrown the first pair of anklets that they had given during the puNyavaajanam. Then I put on the ones that my best friend A had gifted. She lost one of it in the month of October. So, she was roaming around without anything on her ankles for sometime. Now the thandai & new anklets su are fitting her perfectly & it has a lot of salangai and she is all jal jal jal. Btw, she knows to point to golusu, thodu, chain, valayal – my folks say she is proving the fact that she is a girl. She has another pair in stock gifted by T paati for the aayushyahomam. Aayushyahomam photos too have come out really very very well. Photographer uncle had taken great efforts to make it the best and it is worth Rs.8000 that we paid him. He had given a laminated photo of me, S and Chittu looking at which she keeps saying PAAPAA, PAAPAA.
She is a pro now with the bike savaari. After our house shift, J paati & NSK mama would pick her on the way home in the evening and Chittu used to go there (Activa) play there. Later me & S would go in the bike (Scooty Pep +) and pick her back home. With the N number of shuttles, she has got adapted to it easily and can even stand in the front holding on to the front panel guards. Just that I am scared that I don’t encourage it too much. These shuttles reduced a great deal from November as winter had started and there was a lot of chill wind. So S picked her up when he came back from office by car. Her first electric train journey was to Mambalam when I had taken her for a Narayaneeyam parayanam. And the first MTC bus journey was in 21G when we were returning from my friend Mayee’s baby shower.
I had to go to Pune for an official trip in the month of January for 2 days (23rd & 24th January 2012) J paati had assured that she would take care of Chittu. We had gone for 3 night shows (7aum arivu, Raajapaatai & Nanban) leaving her with J paati, but I would always be there at her bedside when she woke up the next morning. But I was not sure how she would react without seeing me for 2 full days. So I started training her from a week before by making her sleep with her dad. She was an angel & cruised through those 2 days without a hitch. May be it was easier for her as I go to office for long hours. I was proud of my cutie pie, but at the same time a corner of the heart ached that she didn’t miss me at all.
With the onset of winter, we have bought Chittu a pair of monkey caps & a sweatshirt. I had always wanted a girl baby as there are a variety of dresses that I can put on her and enjoy. All that is coming true with Chittu wearing beautiful pavadai chattai, cut choli, pedal pushers, tops & shorts (especially the pink one NSK mama had bought for Pongal), mini skirt with and without overcoat, leg ins, etc, etc.
Potty training is on. Again not much improvement there. When I ask her where should she be going choo choo, she shows the restroom, but is still not able to proactively inform us. But we are taking her there at regular intervals, so the number of soiled nappies for the day have tremendously reduced.
When I come back from office she shows a sign of delight, looks at me as says “DAI” (I used to say that to her whenever I come back from office, and now even before I say, she says) I pick her up (If someone stops her way, she cries and makes sure she comes to me) and kiss her, she enjoys it and the next moment she wants to get back to what she was doing. In sharp contrast, some other times, she is very clingy. She hugs our knees and wants her to be lifted. My heart just melts and all that I do immediately is pick her and give a tight hug & kiss. Those times, she doesn’t even want to be away from us. Poor child! She knows the art of kaLLa azhugai and when we don’t lift her, she demonstrates that. There are kids in the opposite house and whenever our door is open, she walks into their house calling akka, aNNa. But those kids don’t even bother much about Chittu, which hurts me a lot. But I can’t blame them too. They are too young to understand certain things. I prevent Chittu from going to their house but she just wouldn’t listen.
Jhonny Jhonny fill up the blanks has changed now. We should now stop at Telling lies no papa and pause when Chittu would say “OPE YOUR” Then we say Open your mouth and she would very slowly say HA HA HA. Every other car is her appa’s car. When she wakes up in the mornings, she gets down from the bed crying (surprisingly at times smiling) and walks into the living room. When she comes crying to me, I ask her “appa enna ma paNNinaa?” The standard reply is “ACHI”. I don’t know why she says this because atleast I give her a pat when she terribly hurts me by pulling the hair or pinching or biting, but S never even raises his hand. She picks a lot of words like bump (jump) , puppy, but doesn’t remember them or knows to use them contextually. Response for most of the questions are oriented towards her – Naan, enakku, etc. But at times for some embarrassing question, she might do an andharbulty and say Amma / Appa J Very clever J
We bought her a pair of green, sound making slippers on 6th January 2012. It was slightly big for her but she has got used to it now. We have also bought a pair of white shoes (with the same gift voucher that my colleagues had gifted) and she is extremely comfortable with that. Chittu has started brushing her teeth since October. She refuses to show the 4 teeth in her upper jaw and that is a challenge for me every morning. I am yet to buy her a flavored toothpaste. On second thoughts, I feel may be the paste would motivate her to show the teeth??!!
Other Functions graced by Chittu
- SKS’s engagement & reception. Reception was a grand ceremony held in Radisson Temple Blu Resort, Mamallapuram. The dinner was arranged in the lawns and Chittu ran around for 1.5 hours continuously without showing an inch of tiredness in her face. We met my favorite tamil author Ramani Chandran there
- S’s school mate Venaktesan’s wedding
- Cham perippa’s friend R’s engagement
- My colleage M’s baby shower
- I akka’s engagement
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