This one is pretty recent. It's real short, but cute. It's of Diya with her favorite doll.
Diya with her favorite doll from Diya Shah on Vimeo.
This is an old video of her laughing or should I say screaming with her daddy.
playful screaming from Diya Shah on Vimeo.
Friday, June 27
Friday, June 20
11 months
Diya's is 11 months old and she is getting heavy. I remember when she reached 11 pounds I complained about how my arms hurt while rocking her to sleep. These days never mind rocking her… I can’t even hold her for more than few minutes at a time. I'm out of breath by the time I reach the top of the stairs while carrying her. (It is very possible that I could just be out of shape ;-) Of course it doesn't help that while I'm going up she has to reach out to touch every light switch, and wall hanging on our way. She is very active so one would think she would burn off everything she ate and she'd be lighter, but nope....not Diya. I think she must weigh at least 22 lbs by now.
She's learned a lot of new things lately. She learns things much faster now too. It took us a month to teach her ‘ta-ta’, but these new things she learned within days. Ask her where is Diya's 'bhodu' (belly) and she will pat her belly. Ask her where’s daddy and she'll through her hand up (kind of imitating a plane). Ask her to do 'jay-jay'(like praying) and she will put her hands together and move them back and forth. Most of these things the in-laws have taught her (obviously). But it’s amazing that she can learn something new in just a day or 2.
She also has a favorite doll now. Well it’s really a teddy bear, but we call it her doll. Infact, we call it 'nani Diya' which means ‘small Diya’. When we ask her to get nani Diya she will get that same doll every time. Then if you ask her to put nani Diya to sleep she will put her in her lap and rock back and forth. It’s really cute.
She continues to 'speak' better too. If you ask her to call Cody(our neighbor's dog) and tell her to say 'aav'(come) she clearly says 'aav aav aav..'. This word used to be a little muffled before.
We are trying to teach her to say mum-mum(food) for when she wants to eat . I’m also trying to teach her to say ‘mummy’ (can you blame me), so I hope she doesn’t get the 2 confused.
Here are last month’s photos.
Below are 2 videos. In this one she is doing everything I ask her to like saying ‘ta-ta’ and doing radhe-radhe.
Smart Diya from Diya Shah on Vimeo.
In this second one she is in her swimming pool which initially she was very scared of, but as you can see in the video she’s gotten over her fear.
Swimming Pool from Diya Shah on Vimeo.
She's learned a lot of new things lately. She learns things much faster now too. It took us a month to teach her ‘ta-ta’, but these new things she learned within days. Ask her where is Diya's 'bhodu' (belly) and she will pat her belly. Ask her where’s daddy and she'll through her hand up (kind of imitating a plane). Ask her to do 'jay-jay'(like praying) and she will put her hands together and move them back and forth. Most of these things the in-laws have taught her (obviously). But it’s amazing that she can learn something new in just a day or 2.
She also has a favorite doll now. Well it’s really a teddy bear, but we call it her doll. Infact, we call it 'nani Diya' which means ‘small Diya’. When we ask her to get nani Diya she will get that same doll every time. Then if you ask her to put nani Diya to sleep she will put her in her lap and rock back and forth. It’s really cute.
She continues to 'speak' better too. If you ask her to call Cody(our neighbor's dog) and tell her to say 'aav'(come) she clearly says 'aav aav aav..'. This word used to be a little muffled before.
We are trying to teach her to say mum-mum(food) for when she wants to eat . I’m also trying to teach her to say ‘mummy’ (can you blame me), so I hope she doesn’t get the 2 confused.
Here are last month’s photos.
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| Diya 's 11th month |
Below are 2 videos. In this one she is doing everything I ask her to like saying ‘ta-ta’ and doing radhe-radhe.
Smart Diya from Diya Shah on Vimeo.
In this second one she is in her swimming pool which initially she was very scared of, but as you can see in the video she’s gotten over her fear.
Swimming Pool from Diya Shah on Vimeo.
Tuesday, June 17
Monday, June 16
Past weekend
It was a big weekend at the Shah residence. On Saturday we invited some family over for dinner. We hadn’t invited them over in awhile and we were waiting for the in-laws to be here. So finally past weekend worked out. The menu went like this…we had strawberry milk shake as what Neha calls ‘Welcome drinks’. The main dish was Idli-sambhar, rasam-vada and dosa with coconut chutney. For dessert we had rass-gula and ice-cream. These are all typical south Indian dishes that the in-laws decided on...do you see why I think of them as south Indian? There was a lot of food, and it was good.
Backing up a bit, there were 2 other reasons for inviting the family besides ‘it’s been awhile’. First, it was Deesh(my sister) and Vipul(her husband)’s ‘vaynu’ dinner. Basically, it’s a dinner for the newlyweds. Although, Deesh and Vipul have been married for awhile and they have also had dinner at our place before…this was the official vaynu. Second, we did a mini naming ceremony for Diya. It is a traditional ceremony when the fai (in this case Neha) holds the newborn and rocks him/her in all four directions then placing him/her in a blanket and officially ‘names the baby’. I can’t really explain it all, but we have it on video. Although, Diya is no longer a newborn and she has already been given her name we wanted to do it for fun. Plus, Neha was so excited about finally getting her rightful chance as a fai we couldn’t let her down. I think everyone enjoyed…especially Diya. 
So that was Saturday. Sunday was Father’s Day. It was pretty low-key. I got Diya ready in her ‘I Love Daddy’ top. Daddy and grand-daddy absolutely loved it. We took bunch of photos. Since we had leftovers from the day before we didn’t have much to cook so we spent most of the day out. We made a stop at iParty for some decorations for Diya’s first bday party. They have such cute stuff. We ate out and returned home where Premal packed. Packed for what you ask? He has another trip to Jacksonville, FL this time. He left today and won’t be back ‘till Wednesday after next…it’s a week and half long trip, his longest yet. Thank God his parents are here so I don’t have to be alone or make any arrangements.
Backing up a bit, there were 2 other reasons for inviting the family besides ‘it’s been awhile’. First, it was Deesh(my sister) and Vipul(her husband)’s ‘vaynu’ dinner. Basically, it’s a dinner for the newlyweds. Although, Deesh and Vipul have been married for awhile and they have also had dinner at our place before…this was the official vaynu. Second, we did a mini naming ceremony for Diya. It is a traditional ceremony when the fai (in this case Neha) holds the newborn and rocks him/her in all four directions then placing him/her in a blanket and officially ‘names the baby’. I can’t really explain it all, but we have it on video. Although, Diya is no longer a newborn and she has already been given her name we wanted to do it for fun. Plus, Neha was so excited about finally getting her rightful chance as a fai we couldn’t let her down. I think everyone enjoyed…especially Diya.
So that was Saturday. Sunday was Father’s Day. It was pretty low-key. I got Diya ready in her ‘I Love Daddy’ top. Daddy and grand-daddy absolutely loved it. We took bunch of photos. Since we had leftovers from the day before we didn’t have much to cook so we spent most of the day out. We made a stop at iParty for some decorations for Diya’s first bday party. They have such cute stuff. We ate out and returned home where Premal packed. Packed for what you ask? He has another trip to Jacksonville, FL this time. He left today and won’t be back ‘till Wednesday after next…it’s a week and half long trip, his longest yet. Thank God his parents are here so I don’t have to be alone or make any arrangements.Diya is almost 11 months old. I will be doing a seperate post for that later this week.
Tuesday, June 3
pulling teeth
I had a dentist appt few weeks back. Last two times I was there I was pregnant so they couldn’t take any xrays. So finally at this last visit they did and get this…they found 3 cavities! I was expecting one…two tops, but not 3. One is on a tooth on the bottom and in the back on the left side and the other two are on my wisdom teeth on the right side. I had the left tooth filled yesterday so that one is all set. Dentist said its best to just pull out the wisdom teeth with the other cavities. My wisdom teeth otherwise are not causing any problems. In fact she was impressed with how straight they had come in. So now I have to decide what I want to do. I’m little scared about getting the teeth pulled. For one thing I get tired of keeping my jaw open for more than 15 minutes and the procedure would take 1-1.5 hrs. Second thing is that since the bottom tooth is a little set in they would have to make a cut on the gum to get to the tooth which means I’d get stitches. And recovering from that doesn’t sound like fun. Third thing is I like my wisdom teeth…I mean isn’t it a waste to remove them if they aren’t bothering the other teeth? And couldn’t she just do a filling on them? I’m pretty sure she’s too lazy to do the fillings. Anyone have any experience with getting wisdom teeth pulled? Any advice for me?
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