My boy is getting older and wiser. He turned one year old last month. Some of the developmental milestones he has reached are:
He has started taking a few steps.
He has started calling Rahul papa.
Around the 11th month, he started waving goodbye.
He can say ma ma ma or mummy. Sometimes it feels like he is trying to call me, but when Rahul asks him call mumma, he stays quiet. Whereas, if I ask him call Papa, he will say Pa pa Pa Pa (पै पै पै पै).
He loves playing games with us: आटे बाटे दही चटाखे बीच की चंदिया हप. एक खूंटा गाए का, एक खूंटा पापा का, एक खूंटा मम्मा का, एक खूंटा भैया का, एक खूंटा अशविन का. और बछिया कहाँ गयी? खो गयी पा गयी, खो गयी पा गयी, पा गयी पा गयी पा गयी! Peek-a-boo is still fun, he wants to growl like a bear, he loves to wake up Sameer. He screams with joy when I take him to Sameer's room to wake up his big brother and tries to jump right away from my arms onto Sameer's bed. He will pull on his hair and scream some more to wake him up. Sameer enjoys it too most of the time. In fact Ashwin wants to play with Sameer and do everything that Sameer is doing. He wants what Sameer is eating, in the same plate, play with Sameer's toys, read Sameer's books.
Ashwin is getting really interested in drawing (discovering using pencil colors and crayons) since Sameer loves to draw. So a couple weeks ago Ashwin started demanding crayons as usual when Sameer was drawing. I finally let him take one and this time, instead of putting it in his mouth, he actually used it to make some scribbles. He enjoyed it so much, he kept doing it for almost 4-5 minutes!
He enjoys his stacking rings, playing with a ball, taking things out of drawers and cabinets and putting them elsewhere, including the trash can. We are missing two fridge magnets that I let him play with and one soft red ball. We have looked everywhere, and I have a feeling they have ended up in the trash. He loves to scream. Maybe when I manage to record a video of the screaming matches that take place in our house, I will post it here. Ashwin starts them and Sameer takes on from there!
He babbles quiet a bit and he will point at things and rattle off a string of sentences in his own language. Sometimes I am able to understand them, but when I am not, he gets frustrated very quickly. Then, he will scream (the crying one), he will scratch at me and anything else he can find, throw things and just act like a mad baby -- why can't you understand what I am trying to say! Sameer finds this behavior and anything else Ashwin does is funny for him. Sameer actually loves babies! I did not know that until now. He has sung to our neighbor's baby and cuddled another baby he met at a party.
Ashwin enjoys people's company for the most part. He loves it when people play with him, as long as he in our lap or sitting with us and he loves being coddled.
He has started taking a few steps.
He has started calling Rahul papa.
Around the 11th month, he started waving goodbye.
He can say ma ma ma or mummy. Sometimes it feels like he is trying to call me, but when Rahul asks him call mumma, he stays quiet. Whereas, if I ask him call Papa, he will say Pa pa Pa Pa (पै पै पै पै).
He loves playing games with us: आटे बाटे दही चटाखे बीच की चंदिया हप. एक खूंटा गाए का, एक खूंटा पापा का, एक खूंटा मम्मा का, एक खूंटा भैया का, एक खूंटा अशविन का. और बछिया कहाँ गयी? खो गयी पा गयी, खो गयी पा गयी, पा गयी पा गयी पा गयी! Peek-a-boo is still fun, he wants to growl like a bear, he loves to wake up Sameer. He screams with joy when I take him to Sameer's room to wake up his big brother and tries to jump right away from my arms onto Sameer's bed. He will pull on his hair and scream some more to wake him up. Sameer enjoys it too most of the time. In fact Ashwin wants to play with Sameer and do everything that Sameer is doing. He wants what Sameer is eating, in the same plate, play with Sameer's toys, read Sameer's books.
Ashwin is getting really interested in drawing (discovering using pencil colors and crayons) since Sameer loves to draw. So a couple weeks ago Ashwin started demanding crayons as usual when Sameer was drawing. I finally let him take one and this time, instead of putting it in his mouth, he actually used it to make some scribbles. He enjoyed it so much, he kept doing it for almost 4-5 minutes!
He enjoys his stacking rings, playing with a ball, taking things out of drawers and cabinets and putting them elsewhere, including the trash can. We are missing two fridge magnets that I let him play with and one soft red ball. We have looked everywhere, and I have a feeling they have ended up in the trash. He loves to scream. Maybe when I manage to record a video of the screaming matches that take place in our house, I will post it here. Ashwin starts them and Sameer takes on from there!
He babbles quiet a bit and he will point at things and rattle off a string of sentences in his own language. Sometimes I am able to understand them, but when I am not, he gets frustrated very quickly. Then, he will scream (the crying one), he will scratch at me and anything else he can find, throw things and just act like a mad baby -- why can't you understand what I am trying to say! Sameer finds this behavior and anything else Ashwin does is funny for him. Sameer actually loves babies! I did not know that until now. He has sung to our neighbor's baby and cuddled another baby he met at a party.
Ashwin enjoys people's company for the most part. He loves it when people play with him, as long as he in our lap or sitting with us and he loves being coddled.
3 comments:
enjoyed reading it! So good you wrote down the hindi rhyme. I know another version from Didi. So, how do you play ate bate with him?
I will try to upload a video of the game Aate baate. I just pat his hand, for the first part: Aate baate dahi chatake, beech ki chandiya, and then a pretend feed by joining my thumb and pointer for the 'hup'. Then, taking his fingers one by one, recite ek khunta gaye ka,... till I am finished with all the fingers. After that I ask him, "bachiya kahan gayi?" Then I walk my pointer and middle fingers on his arm till I finally reach his armpit and tickle him there, kho gayi pa gayi, pa gayi pa gayi pa gayi.
hey, Just stumbled upon your blog. And enjoyed reading the baby updates. DO write more often about the cute stuffs.
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