Wow Wow Dance

Hmm... Even I don't know the meaning of Wowwow! She simply told this and danced. It really did not strike us when she was doing first time, later we thought that we forgot to capture this, so asked her 100 times and finally she did this, but it did not look like the first one.

Diwali Celebration - 2011 @ Bangalore

Like last year, this year also Thamizhini scared very much for crackers sound. Last year she did not know what is happening, but was frightening too much. But this year she was seeing how crackers are burst and still scared for the sound. Anyways she likes to hold sparklers in her hand but still frightened for bursting sounds.

Somehow Maama -ve Ice pannanum....else he will scare me much!!!

This year celebration was in my Anna's new house at Bangalore. It was not a planned trip, in last minute my brother told me that he is not coming, so we thought we will go there and celebrate. We started early morning to Bangalore on Tuesday and reached there by around 9:30 AM. The travel was too good even though we were worried about raining. Thamizhini was enjoying the travel and was looking left and right even in the dark and was telling Car and Lorry all the way.

Hmm... Tomorrow is Diwali,  But look at the house, how it looks...

In the night, Anna's friend family had come for dinner and their son named Rupesh joined Thamizhini to play and celebrate Diwali. That night was really fun filled one. I cannot forget it. Thamizhini wanted to hold sparklers in her hand till it goes off. The little one does not have fear at all and never understand what we say. 

I'm not scared! But Amma. She is not allowing me to hold sparklers in my hand!!

On Diwali we woke up early and got Thamizhini also ready with new dress. We had breakfast and started to "Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple" in Bannerhatta road. I had been to that temple every week when I was in Bangalore. The temple did not change at all and even the priests. :-) 

 After darshan we came back and changed our outfits to casual one and marched to Rupesh's house for Lunch. It was a grand lunch and we had good time there. As we chit chatted for sometime,  both Thamizhini and Rupesh spent time by playing and of course, fighting for the Car to go ride!

Free ride in Rupesh Anna's Car!!!

In the evening we burst crackers and had great time again with those two kutties. They both were scared about crackers and the noise. Both were crying like anything. Check out the photos...

Discussing..... (Look at Thamizhini...) and that black dress is Sona!!!

Uncle Click us well....

Thamizhini enjoyed at childrens park and liked to play in the slider very much. We clikced some of  the happy moments there :P

Thanks Sona aunty for all the Photos!!!

Full of the joys of spring

Playing in the park is fun for all the children and Thamizhini is no different! From 4:30 in the evening, we usually start telling her like, "Drink the Juice, will go to Park" "Have this apple, will go to Park"! She will be very much enthusiastic and energetic in the evening to go to Park and play with her friends.

Refreshing....

She would like to play with elders also. She calls Akka Akka and goes behind them for playing. Tara akka is her best friend these days, you know why? she plays with Thamizhini nicely and she takes Thamizhini with her when playing  in the Slide, Swing and on the Duck. Check out the video how they both play:

Are you able to find the Kitty in the below photograph?  Somehow kitty came in side the play area and kids were going behind wherever the kitty goes. Thamizhini also played with that for sometime, but little bit frightened to catch that.

Look at the kitty!!!

One big issue I was facing after she turned one was "Sleeping in the night". These days she gets up exactly by 1:30am in the night and will not sleep until 5:30.  Yeah! Feeling Sad for me, Thanks. :-) I tried lot of ways to make it straight, but no luck. One of the way  is to make her walk / play in the evening. I literally make her walk walk and walk. I do not take her in my hands, I simply leave her for walking.

Ball Venuma??

Check out the video to know what we do in the evening. You will know how she talks and calls her granny too! You must be surprised to see how she understands that we talk to her.

Reading Books

I have already written about her fondness on books and how she likes to see / read her books.  As I said earlier, there is no timing for it. And any body can take the book and show for her. It is not necessarily me or his Dad. Her grandparents can also show her books and tell her what it is. 

Reading is my passion

As of now she has many books and she knows almost all the books names. It may not be the exact name of the book but we have put some small names to it.

she has lengthy list of books, namely:

1) Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see (We say just Brown Bear book)

2) Nursery Rhymes with CD and music notes with it. (Kakka Book, as crow is there)

3) My Pretty Board-Books: Animals And Birds (Animals)

4) Pre school Activities (anna book as anna do cycling in this book)

5) Fruits ( same as the name)

6) Flowers (Poo Book)

Kakka kanom... bye bye!!!

and she has Snoozers, Chikka Chikka Boom Boom, King Geroge, Lord Indra and some of Barbie's book. But these are all yet to start reading as it is bit thin papers compared to that hard books :P Yeah, I'm worried! Even though we don't spend much time for these books, she knows some of the characters like king, puppy, frog and etc on the books by seeing pictures!

I'm searching my Animals Book

She loves mainly 3 books here: Brown bear, Animals and Preschool activity books. In Animals book, she knows minimum 3 to 4 animal and bird names per page. As she is yet to talk, we ask the name of the animal / bird and she puts her finger on it. 

Check out the attached videos like how she used to sit and read her book. 

If we ask a animal which we have not told her before, she will simply put her finger on any of the animal, but mainly not on the known animal. She never waste a second for showing it to the wrong one, but if she knows she will take some seconds to think / find and show it.

Oh! Book... bye bye....!!!

Sometimes our conversation will be like this and it is very funny to listen her.
Me: Wheres the Animals book?

Thamizhini: (Searches for half a minute and) "bye bye" and shows her hand as not found!

These days this is usual for her, If something is not found or not able to find it out, she says that is gone "bye bye".  

Its weekly magazine....

Sometimes she takes weekly Tamil magazines and ask us to read for her. Whatever it is, she likes to see the pictures on it and we have to say something about the pictures. More importantly, even in the night (or I should say early in the morning) around 3 O' clock, she asks me to get a book and read for her. Just think about me, will I be happy for this?

Related Links: Reading Interest1, Reading Interest2

Saraswati Pooja

This is second Saraswati Pooja for Thamizhini. Last year she was very small and she did not know what was happening at all. But this year she was wondering from morning the time that she woke from bed as I was busily cleaning the pooja shelf and arranging for pooja. Also, this year too she does not know what is special on this Pooja.:-)

I'm Ready Ready...

Previous day iteself we have bought all the required things like Vaazhaikandru, Thennanguruthu, Poo and Maavilai, also importantly Sundal and Pori. But Thamizhini slept early that day and she did not see all these things, but in the morning after the bath, she started romaing and found lots of interesting stuffs for her. But some how we arranged for the pooja and look at the below picture for how it looked.

Ah! Saamy ku ethuku Thengai n Pazham???

Also look at the books that we have kept in front of Goddess! The top one is Thamizhini's "Brown Bear Brown Bear" :-)

Ah... Pori and Sundal too???

This is how we decorate for Pooja each year and we started Pooja by 9:45. We generally offer Pori and Sundal for Saraswati Pooja, so after Pooja as Prasadam we gave Sundal and Pori to Thamizhini. She ate those and I guess she liked it very much. We used to give Sundal now and then, but Pori is the first time for her. She loved to eat it. 

Amma, Why didn't you tell about / show Pori  for this long?

In the evening we had been to "Dhandeeswaram temple" in Velachery and spent almost an hour there. The temple is very big and Thamizhini wanted to walk on her own. So we sat for sometime leisurely in the temple and she was just walking here and there. 

Naan valargiren Amma.... and Thankyou Maama for this wonderful cute dress.. All matching matching.. :-)

I'm very much surprised to see this, because she used to get scared for most of the things like, if see sees someone coming near to her,  if people talk in louder voice. But these days she never cares about anyone, as if she is the only one in the temple, she was walking and running sometimes. Also she goes to other kids and calls them as "Paappa... Paappa.." And sometimes says Hi and gives Hi5 if we ask her to do so!!!. Oh! My little one is growing old and knows how to behave with others.

15th Month

This fifteen months naughty learns each and everything minute by minute. Looking at the things what grown up does and she tries to do that! And moreover she understands very well whatever we talk to her. These days she knows how to operate TV remote and uses it. (If I say this to my Dr. she will scold me for sure) :D Lots of development and lots of activities, still learning so many things.

Oh! Is that Kaaka???

These days she plays in all the items that were placed in Children's park! Before we used to make her sit on the Swing, Sea saw and Duck. But now she decides on what she has to play. She shows her hands towards the Swing / Slide or Duck and we have to make her sit on that! We were not allowing her to play on the Slide as she was too small to sit and catch the sides to come down. But these days she wants to play in that, so we make her directly sit on the slide top(rather than using climbers to come up) and she slides down with our help. We are still worried to leave her alone to slide herself down. I wondered by seeing her that we never taught her how to slide down, but she does it by seeing others playing on it.

Hmm.. Why can't this way? I see akkas doing this....!!!

Thamizhini was very happy to see her Athai, Akka and Anna. She played with them nicely and when they were ready to leave, she felt sad and started crying too! It took sometime for me to pacify her.

I'm very Happy to be with Athai, Abhi akka and Hari Anna!

She looks taller in the below photo, Yeah, I should have put the "stand up" photo, but i couldnot click her in that pose. It is very tough to get her in neat pose. Always her legs are on move and it never stop!

I'm a big girl Amma...!!!.

She likes to go a round when her Dad comes back from office. This is routine for her from her 10th month, If I'm right. Look at the photo how she catches the handle.

I wanna drive this!

This photo descibes how naughty she became. I dressed her up to go to the Park and I felt the dress combination was good. So tired to click a photo of her and I finally got the below one only.

Click in this way Amma.

This photo was clicked inside her Pent Ball house, her Mama had brought this from Ireland. By seeing this photo I remember one incident that I can not forget in my life. She generally hesitates to be with her Mama, if he stays for two days in our house, first half day will pass by crying for Thamizhini. He has to do lot of things to get her in his hands. He has to dance, take her out, do some comedy / terrible things and lot more. At last Thamizhini will not cry by seeing him. Yes, just will not cry. But still she will not go voluntarily to  him. But this time, he was givining lot of toys to her, like balls, bats, caps, cloths that he had brought from Ireland. This little one cried when she saw him first time in the morning, but after getting all the toys, she did not cry at all by seeing him, she is calling "Mama, mama" and going to him and getting things from him and showing to all. And moreover when I ask, "yaaru Ball kodutha", she says "Maama". I still remember her soft murmuring voice that how nicely she said. Oh! Pakka Chaalu this cute pie.

Its me... Dreaming Baby!!!