How loud can I get?

Sameer these days loves to talk loudly. He gets to meet his dada dadi and nana frequently. So in the middle of the day if he starts thinking about them, he'll go like this: दादा गए, नाना गए, बेबी गए (baby means Naman, his bua's son), पापा गए. At times he'll start calling them loudly, as loud as he can get. When asked kahan gaye, his response is: caar ghar (ghar as in home). Anytime the bell rings, and it rings quite frequently here in India, he'll start reciting the names of all the relatives he knows. The first name he'll say is Papa, next either nana or dadda followed by whichever name he hasn't taken between nana and dadda so far. Usually, by then I tell him if any of his guesses were correct.

If its not in my vocabulary then....

....it must be called Gagga. That's what Sameer seems to think. He is now over 18 months and his vocabulary is growing every week. However, it is very funny to see him point to an object that he has seen before, but does not yet know how to say it and hearing him utter "Gagga". A picture of an apple is Gagga and so is that of a pear. The bus is Gagga, but the car is "Caar". I guess he loves cars like me :-)

From baby to toddler

The last four months we have been busy shifting base from USA to Delhi to Noida. We still haven't received our stuff that we shipped from the USA. During this period, Sameer has also been developing from a baby to a toddler.

He wants to make his own decisions, gets frustrated and sometimes really angry if we do not agree with him. His memory is way better, he learns things quite quickly, he wants to communicate and is a lot more active as compated to a few months ago. he'll try to mimic us, he wants to play with all the stuff that is forbidden. In short he is driving me crazy! At the same time it's fun to talk with him and see his responses. And ofcourse as far as having his own mind for everything is concerned, just the other day when I was feeding him rajma, he would decide which bean I give him from the plate in each morsel, and the order of his food, rajma, dahi and then roti, each separately.

Bijli chali gayi hai, UPS bol raha hai kafi der se. We are in India as you can see :-) I should end this post here.