New bag and a set of trucks

New Peppa Pig bag. The boy needed an additional bag to carry his extra clothes and food for the day care.

New trucks from his Uncle!

And he falls sick

"First of all do you know how to cut nails?" asked the boy to the wife when the question of cutting nails came up. 

There were more...This was when he was in a good mood...
"Acha, Ah and I, we are buying blue Bentley's"
"How will you identify whose is which?", I asked.
"I will park somewhere Ah will park somewhere"

And when he was in a whiny mood...

"Somebody sleep with me"
"Nobody go out of the house"
"I can't stop crying"
"Somebody help me drink milk"
"I don't want to have a bath ever"

Earlier this month, the boy had a prize distribution in school. He also got his class photo.

We went for a lunch at Chinita after that. The boy had quesadillas thinking it was a pizza. He finished them  off.

The following week he fell sick. (In the end it turned out to be a stomach infections that was doing the rounds. Highly likely that he got it from his time at the day care.)

It was a Thursday.

The boy threw up, the wife had to rush to school and he complained of ear pain. We didn't hear from Dr S, so went to the doc nearby. The canal connecting ear and nose had phlegm. The doc suggested steam inhalation, Sinarest and other medicines. 4 of them to be precise!

On Saturday we went to see Dr S. There was a long line and we managed to see him at the last moment. He controlled the stomach infection first.

He had his school annual day that day and wanted to make it any cost. But by afternoon he felt so weak after the trip back from Dr S that he went to sleep. I went and returned his costume. The headmistress was disheartened as the boy loved dancing and he was the central figure. He complained of ear pain and Dr S suggested Crocin. In the night he threw up on the quilt. Whatever he ate or drank he threw up. It was mostly phlegm. He was scared to eat or drink. 

The Mucolite course was for 5 days. For 2 days the wife took him to work. His appetite was not back. In fact he refused chocolate cake at a birthday party.
On Wednesday we sent him to school but the boy slept. When be got up he complained of stomach pain. He didn't eat. For dinner after a lot of coaxing he ate an idli. The wife took Thursday and Friday off to be with him. Thanks to her it helped and the boy started getting back to normal. In the night he wanted to go for a walk so I carried him around the apartment. The number of idli's increased, he started eating rice. The bones were still visible though. But the appetite was back.

Habits, more talk and his first reading session

The boy has developed this habit of pulling at his lip with his nails. It has become so bad that his lip has cuts and it is discolored. And he gets very irritated if I ask him not to do it "What is your problem?" I feel like "whack!" but refrained. At one point he cried so much during a tantrum that he threw up.

The boy had his haircut and is becoming a bangalorean - "Look at the traffic. It is terrible!"

He also had this to say about girls in a conversation with the wife.

"If you go behind a girl, you will become a girl" 

"Who told you that?" 

"Kavitha madam"

"That is not true"

"No way. I am telling you if you go behind a girl you will become a girl"

"Don't laugh at me. It's not funny"

The boy got a set of Monopoly and Snakes & Ladders and has taken a love to Monopoly.

Because of a Peppa Pig episode at 8 am, he wakes up early, and is ready by that time. 

He also attended a reading of Peppa Pig at Atta Galatta on Saturday. The boy was a little hesitant to sit with the other children initially. He settled down, enjoyed the reading, answered the questions and cheered for others. He even came home and asked us this - "Amma, who works harder, you or Acha?" 

Throwing up

We got a call from school last Friday that the boy was throwing up  and had loose motion. The wife went to pick him up and he came running out "Look ma, I vomited!" And looked very normal. He came home, slept in  the afternoon and did not eat much.
On Saturday he had curd rice for lunch and he threw that up in  the evening. After that went to meet R&I. The boy played with I and had only a toast for dinner. In the morning while drinking milk, he threw up again. We took him to Dr S. He was extremely patient, heard the entire set of events and prescribed 5 medicines with the strict instruction that they be given only if conditions get worse. The 4 stages were loose motion/vomiting, gastritis, colic and if nothing worked an antibiotic. The boy started on  Emeset (loose motion/vomiting) and thankfully recovered. He looked very dull and his size seemed to have shrunk.
We didn't send him to school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. He went with the wife to her office.
Today he reluctantly went to school.

No diaper night

Finally the boy slept last night sans a diaper. We hope it is a long term change. Part of it is because we switched to Mamy Poko pants which the boy does not like.

PTM

We had the boy's PTM last Saturday. His teacher says he has started expressing his anger. The boy loves his puzzles, coloring, chats a lot and is inseparable from his best friend H.
R&I with little I dropped in with an Xmas gift and the boy was thrilled. They screamed, shouted, ran around and opened the gift. Dinner was at Mainland China. The boy ate a some portions of Spring Roll and both of them had fun asking the waiters to come over by shouting "Excuse me!". We got home, the boy coughed badly and threw up the Spring Roll.
On Sunday morning we took the boy to Orion Mall as there was a Santa. We were early, the Santa was not to be seen, so we promised him that we will come back later. Off we went to Hosur and the boy actually lay down on the rear seat and slept instead of sitting with his neck at a weird angle and sleeping. On the drive back, he asked me how many hours I work. When I replied he remarked "That is big...a huge huge number" I was taken back by his response.
The boy has a new Spiderman water bottle - the recent new one was accidentally dropped by the school staff.

Below is the boy's depiction of traffic jam in the Outer Ring Road.

Haircut time + tantrums

The boy had his haircut on Saturday. We asked the hairdresser to make a parting but he couldn't. He used a clipper mostly but the boy wanted his hair to be cut using scissors.

He has learnt to unlock my phone and play songs. He has a new water bottle.

There was a flea market in our apartment and the boy was running in between the stalls when he fell and hurt his elbow badly. I cleaned it and applied ointment but he reminded us once in a while that it is paining.

We are in the process of getting him off the diaper when he sleeps during the night and he took it a step ahead. Got up at midnight, woke us up and insisted on peeing in the loo. And when we asked him to do it in the diaper, threw a tantrum.

For his extended day care till 130, the wife packs lunch for him. He dutifully told his teacher "There is more sweet potato at home but Amma gives me only this much"

He has a cough but we are avoiding giving him medicines.