Ouch again

Fell down with  lips bleeding and chipped tooth. We drove down to Chennai after lunch, with the boy going “Bha bha” each time he saw a bus on the road. He did not want to get back in the car when we stopped for dinner.

Once we got there, he was cranky during night insisting on the wife rocking him to sleep and refused to come to me.

Movie time...flopped

We watched PK last night with the boy at the nearby mall. He was in awe of the lights, the big screen and the people. Initially he moved up and down to the music from the trailers before the movie, sitting in my lap. As the movie started, he got restless and I took him out. The rest of the movie was mostly that. I was out with him for the first half and the wife in the second half. He feasted on the pop corn. The boy showed no signs of sleeping. We got home and he was out in 2 minutes flat.

Shivers and tantrums

The wife woke up shivering yesterday. Surprising the boy seemed to understand that she was not well and was  quiet, opting to sit in the bouncer. The 5 year old Ah and the boy had a fight over a pencil. The boy can scream, scratch and can whack Ah on the head. In the night he wanted the glass water bottle, the bottle of cooking oil and when I said no, threw a tantrum and tossed the chapattis on the floor.

2 steps

The boy took 2 steps unassisted!

A the Nanny

bunked today. Thanks to B, who volunteered to take the boy with her for some time, I was able to finish making lunch. He threw a huge tantrum when I took the way the baby soap from him in the bath tub. Cried for nearly half an hour and he had forgotten why he was crying in the first place. It was a mix of sleep and hunger. The boy slept on the way to pick up the wife from the train station.

Food and football

The boy has learnt to pour the water from the feeding bottle into its cap and drink from it. We mostly let him eat on his own – seat him on the dining table with the plate in front of him. It is a mess with the food on him, around the plate and even in his shirt pocket. He can eat with both his hands but is so scared of biting his own finger that he puts the food deep in his mouth and immediately takes out his finger.

So we were in my wife’s cousin’s home last night watching the final of ISL and sipping Captain Morgan when the boy took a fancy to the glass and the color of its contents. I kept the glass away but his pestering increased. Eventually I caved in and gave him the last sip and he wanted more. Gave him one more drop and he wanted more. That night he got up only once for the feed! Good smooth stuff.

Surprisingly repeated what Ah and Aa’s father said – “You go”. It came in a flash.

Gooti Gooti Ga!

Something that the boy picked up. A major hit with Aa and Ah.