Saturday, January 29, 2011

Annual school-family picnic

We had so much fun with a dozen toddlers with their parents during the apple kids annual family picnic.
Sparsh was at ease in the presence of his caretakers..I could really sense that he is the darling of apple kids.

It was our first journey in a sleeper bus and we loved the concept...Children had fun climbing up and down the seats :-)

the highlight of the trip were the swimming pool and various rides at the resort...kids surely had a blast.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Driving feedback

Now that I have become more confident about driving, I take Sparsh out on my own, though not very far yet. I think he has sensed my nervousness in the past and come to the conclusion that he is not in safe hands! Every few minutes while I am driving he keeps telling me- "aise nahin mummy", "idhar dekho", "breaker"!

My little driving coach :-).

learning to associate- jaisa, wala

Somethimes I can see a little boy in my baby already. I am so happy to see him associate things to one another and make more sense out of what he hears. I know he understands the concept of similar, coz he has started using the word- "jaisa" or "same-to-same" very often when he sees two similar things.

I think he understands the concept of whom a things belongs to too, coz again he uses the word "wala" when he wants to say that this belongs to somebody like- "papa wala soap"!

I am looking forward to a full fledged conversation with him!

Monday, January 17, 2011

hand-foot-mouth!

What a disease! probably the worst thing to happen to a toddler.
So, Sparsh was finally diagnosed with hand-foot-mouth disease. he has tiny blisters all over his hands, foot and throat, some near the lips too. It is painful for him to do anything- walk, talk, swallow, drink, play :-(.
I read that it is pretty common in children who go to day care centres...and again felt guilty about leaving my child in one to pursue my career!
anyways, he is on the road to recovery and I hope this never happens again.

http://www.babycenter.in/baby/health/handfootmouth/

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Midnight scare

Sparsh was dull thru the day. Hubby was out of the country. It was sunday ( read, no doctors available). I am not very confident while driving in Bangalore.
Butit took a midnight scare with Sparsh having high degree fever and rashes all over his body for me to jump out of the bed, pull the car out and rush to the nearest medical store to get the required medicines for him. I did not rememebr my driving nervousness for a moment....thank god I knew lil bit driving..came handy in time of need.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Special cake!

When it was time to order a cake for Sparsh's second birthday party we were in unison that we want a cake with an "auto-rickshaw' on it..considering Sparsh's eternal love for autos! But for the lack of a cake-worthy auto picture, Biswarup created a collage of all the vehicles that Sparsh could identify and we got a photo cake done for that collage. Our effort paid off when sparsh recogonized the auto immediately!

Friday, January 14, 2011

The Dude turns two!

Sparsh had a nice day with celebrations at school and at home and seeking God's blessings. I wish you all the happiness by little boy....love you hamesh!

Bring On Terrible Twos :-)


Scribbling on my wall,

Toys up and down the hall,

Jumping on the bed,

Always running ahead!



Wants to walk in dad’s shoes,

Fuss over every small bruise,

Dressing, bathing, everything is a “NO”,

Until my anger starts to show!



When he wants something he really acts cute,

Else he invites one of those little fits!

He tells me NO when I say it's time to sleep,

And wants to go out to see car and jeep!



Everyone says it's a natural thing he's going through,

But I swear I don't know what I'm going to do!

These terrible two's are going to kill me!

I guess I'll just hope it gets better when he's three!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Sparsh's first bike ride with mummy

We have been hoping for this for a long time  ever since Sparsh had a small fall when he tried to get down from the moving scooter). And finally, Sparsh rode with me on the scooter for the very first time. He liked it so much that I had to take him for almost 10 rounds around our apartment complex :-). We also had a short trip to Total mall on the scooter.

I think the good times have just begun and we would have more mom-son bonding outings now :-)!!!!

waiting for papa

Last night was the first time that Biswarup was out of town since Sparsh has started speaking.

My little baby kept waiting for papa to come home :-(. For anything that I asked him to do like eat, sleep, etc. his response was- "papa aane baad"!

He finally slept at arnd 11:30pm still waiting for papa.


Monday, January 10, 2011

Flavours and textures

I always knew that Sparsh can recogonize flavours and textures and therefore has his own likes and dislikes. I have started getting verbal conformations when he tastes outside foods like shakes, sundaes, some starters and can nicely identify them as- banana shake, cake (in sundae), kaju, etc.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

SuperMam

Sparsh's class- teacher's name is Suparna and he prefers to call her "Suparmam". Cute..isnt it!?

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Sparsh and grammer

Sparsh has started making small sentences and I think he is getting his first lesson in grammer. For example he said- " Didi is hansing"...when he wanted to say that his baby sitter is laughing :-)