Earlier it just used to be, "Papa cook." Lately, however, it has mostly been -- mumma cook. It's not an observation of us cooking in the kitchen. It's a banishment when he has to choose between one of us being around.
I guess he got this idea when usually in the evenings, I just had to get the dinner ready, not just for us, but for Sameer as well. I would have to tell him that mumma needs to go and cook even though he does not want me to go. So if ever Rahul was around, he would tell Rahul, "Papa cook." But a few days ago, he got up in the afternoon and he wasn't feeling well. He has had a cold and cough the past few days and he wanted his dad around. Rahul was at work. Sameer wasn't ready to accept that. So he goes, "Papa de do, Papa de do," and then he tells me, "Mumma cook."
Same thing happend a few days earlier. I guess it was nice while the "papa cook" phase lasted.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Sameer is 2 - Part II
Developmentally, he is changing so rapidly, acting more and more like a boy. He loves the alphabet. He knows all the letters now and wants to read any place he can. He used to get confused when he would see lowercase and uppercase letters. However, now he is getting the concept, specially since he encounters them all the time.
He loves to draw -- all scribbles of course, lines and sort of circles. Still that is how it starts for everyone. It works well for us too, as we have discovered that we can now go out to eat in a restaurant. Just give him crayons and a paper and he is happy. From time to time, he'll ask us to draw something. On the whole we can eat out in a more relaxed way as compared to earlier.
He is enjoying imitating sounds more and more now. Which means he is taking more interest in trying to talk. While he still can't reproduce some sounds like 's', 'l' and a few more, he is getting better at reproducing other sounds.
There is so much else I want to write. However, right now I am busy packing for our return to India this Friday. It's been a very nice six weeks. Now that is another post in itself :-)
He loves to draw -- all scribbles of course, lines and sort of circles. Still that is how it starts for everyone. It works well for us too, as we have discovered that we can now go out to eat in a restaurant. Just give him crayons and a paper and he is happy. From time to time, he'll ask us to draw something. On the whole we can eat out in a more relaxed way as compared to earlier.
He is enjoying imitating sounds more and more now. Which means he is taking more interest in trying to talk. While he still can't reproduce some sounds like 's', 'l' and a few more, he is getting better at reproducing other sounds.
There is so much else I want to write. However, right now I am busy packing for our return to India this Friday. It's been a very nice six weeks. Now that is another post in itself :-)
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Sameer is 2 - Part I
Sameer is about to turn two years. Although I feel as if he has been with us for longer than that. Maybe because I have never before been so conscious of each moment. But then again, I have never been forced to. Then why are so many things such a blur. Perhaps for the same reason; each coming moment pushes the previous ones out, only the most significant ones remain.
As Sameer turns into a boy over time, I wonder what he'll be like as he grows. I know it's too early. But he is already so obstinate in so many things. It's not that he never listens. In fact he usually always listens. The thing is, he will listen and still decide, naah, I don't agree. He still wants to do what he wants to do.
From time to time he'll be nice and give us some respite from his constant pushing. He'll actually listen to us and agree to do whatever we want him to do. And there would be this lull when we would think, Oh, we have finally learned how to be in control. Yay!
He is not pushing for toys. If we take him to a store and he spots something, he'll not make a scene, if he tell him he has to say bye to that toy and that he can't have it. However, tell him he has to go out when he does not want to or go home when he does not want to, take a bath when he is not in the mood and the biggest challenge is getting him to ready to go to bed. "Ninni no, No ninni," becomes this constant phrase and except for the last few days, he'll be crying repeatedly, "mumma no, papa no." He was never into stuffed toys before. Just in the last two days however, I have been using the Winnie the Pooh that he got from his cousin mama-mami to get him to go to bed without much resistance. I tell him mumma is putting Pooh to bed. Sameer is now a big boy and he can go to bed on his own; mumma will not help Sameer. That has worked two days in a row. Don't know how long it'll work, but I intend on using it for as long as it does.
(to be continued...)
As Sameer turns into a boy over time, I wonder what he'll be like as he grows. I know it's too early. But he is already so obstinate in so many things. It's not that he never listens. In fact he usually always listens. The thing is, he will listen and still decide, naah, I don't agree. He still wants to do what he wants to do.
From time to time he'll be nice and give us some respite from his constant pushing. He'll actually listen to us and agree to do whatever we want him to do. And there would be this lull when we would think, Oh, we have finally learned how to be in control. Yay!
He is not pushing for toys. If we take him to a store and he spots something, he'll not make a scene, if he tell him he has to say bye to that toy and that he can't have it. However, tell him he has to go out when he does not want to or go home when he does not want to, take a bath when he is not in the mood and the biggest challenge is getting him to ready to go to bed. "Ninni no, No ninni," becomes this constant phrase and except for the last few days, he'll be crying repeatedly, "mumma no, papa no." He was never into stuffed toys before. Just in the last two days however, I have been using the Winnie the Pooh that he got from his cousin mama-mami to get him to go to bed without much resistance. I tell him mumma is putting Pooh to bed. Sameer is now a big boy and he can go to bed on his own; mumma will not help Sameer. That has worked two days in a row. Don't know how long it'll work, but I intend on using it for as long as it does.
(to be continued...)
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