Diya is 14 months old

Diya has been having a rough couple of days. It's also the reason I'm late for the monthly post. Poor girl is sick again. She had a cold and then a cough and on Sunday she had a fever. Monday no fever and seemed like she was doing better so we sent her to daycare. But, they called in the afternoon saying her fever is 100.5 if it reaches 101 she will have to be taken home. Premal brought her home anyway. So yesterday I stayed home from work(I wasn't feeling that great anyways) and kept Diya home from daycare. I took her to the doctors. She has bronchitis and a double ear infection. Apparently, its going around in her daycare. That is one thing about daycare...the sicknesses never seem to end. But you can't tell by looking at Diya she is sick. Except for the runny nose she was acting like her normal self. She was playing by herself all day and even let me rest too. It was kinda nice to get a break from our normal routine.

So, anyway, here are the photos from last month. I'll post more later.

2 molars and more

As I mentioned in my last post that Premal had to go away for 2 days. (Well…it turned out to be 3 days.) But no problem, cause taking care of Diya went really well …actually better than I expected. Dropping her off was fun and picking her up was even better. She’d be so happy to see me…its one of the best feelings.

Over the weekend couple of interesting things happened. On Saturday Diya proved what we kinda knew all along...she is a people person. I was giving her lunch after her nap and she was little cranky. My parents, Deesh, and Vipul came over and within seconds she was a different baby. She started smiling…babbling…and didn’t make a fuss about finishing her lunch either. Rest of the day she was happy baby. My parents (especially my dad and Deesh) were totally loving it. On the weekdays she gets cranky sometimes after coming back from daycare. We wondered if maybe she missed all the kids…now we are pretty sure she does.

Another interesting thing I discovered is that Diya has 2 of her top molars! She has 4 front top teeth and 2 front bottom teeth. We hadn’t seen any new teeth for months now. We didn’t think much of it. Then on Saturday she was in my lap and leaned back while her mouth was open and I saw one of molars! I was kinda shocked. It wasn’t like it was just coming in either….it is fully there. Later on I try to get another look to see if there are more and sure enough I saw another one on the other side. Both are on top. So she has a total of 8 teeth and 1 budding in the front bottom. I wish I could get a photo of the inside of her mouth…who knows what other ones are in there. But she never stays still long enough and never mind letting us look inside.

On Sunday we went to visit the Ninans and their new baby, Sanjay. He is so adorable and so tiny. Can’t believe Diya was ever that tiny. Very happy for them. They will have their hands full with 2 now. After the visit we went out to dinner with the Pandes. Diya was copying everything Gautam was doing. He is such a cutie anyways and now that he talks it is so funny. Seeing him interact with Diya and the way she runs around behind him is really fun to watch. After dinner we were walking towards our car while the Pandes were going towards theirs in the opposite direction. Twice Diya pulled her hand away and started running towards them. It was cute(not to mention dangerous).

pizza and past weekend

We had a great past weekend. Initially, we didn’t have any plans so we decided to go to Tulan(my make-shift brother)’s place. He had been asking us to come over for awhile. Of course, he made us come for dinner. Avani(his wife) made some excellent Punjabi food. Tulan had so many stuffed animals and toys waiting for Diya to play with. He loves kids and loves playing with Diya…so obviously he is Diya’s favorite mama. After dinner the rest of the samaj gang came over. We got home really late, but it was a fun time.

Next day we were so tired except Diya of course. She had gotten her regular amount of sleep the night before and was fresh as usual. Then in the afternoon she took a 2.5 hr nap. It was heaven. We all rested and when she woke up we all had more energy. We went for a nice walk.

Something new that Diya has learned…I ask her ‘Diya na pug kiya’(where are Diya’s legs) and she will wiggle her legs. Slowly I want to teach her all the body parts. I’m also trying to teach her how to climb down the stairs. I put her on her belly on the steps and kinda pull her one step at a time. I think she is getting the hang of it, but I have to get her started. I’m also trying to teach her how to get off from a bed and sofa.

In other things…she had her first taste of pizza last Friday. I went to daycare to pick her up and I noticed that all her food that I had sent was still there. I couldn’t find her daily activity sheet so I got really worried and asked one of the teachers about it. She said her sheet was in the toddler room cause she was there all day. She ate what all the toddlers ate on Fridays…pizza. I was shocked…how can she eat pizza…she doesn’t know how to feed herself. Apparently, I was wrong. She is able to feed herself better than I thought. I mean it’s not perfect, but she doesn’t shove it all in her mouth…she actually takes small bites. So all weekend I gave her whole cookies, crackers or bread slices and I watched her eat it correctly.

Tomorrow and Thursday Premal has trip to go on which means I will be on 100% Diya duty. I will have to drop her off and pick her from daycare plus go to work. It will be the first time this has happened and first time the 2 of us will be staying alone over night. I'm not really nervous...I just think it will be exhausting.

Anyway, here are some photos from Sunday.

Labor Day Weekend

I can't believe the weekend is already over. It was a busy one for us, but hopefully it will be the last of its kind for awhile now. Past weekend was my friend Tushima's wedding and Sital's baby shower. We realized how tough it is to take Diya to functions like this now on. At Tushima's sangeet I was one of those typical moms running around behind their kid. Doing that in a sari was no easy task. Diya would not sit still anywhere! It wasn't totally her fault because she didn't have any space to run around. Needless to say we left little early.

So the next day, I decided not to take her to Sital's baby shower. Not only cause she wouldn't have fun, but also cause it was in Springfield and she would have hated to be in the car for 2+ hrs straight. Instead, she spent the day with her nana, nani, masi and daddy. She stayed with them even when we went for Tushima's reception the same evening. Apparently, she was very well behaved and wasn't hard to look after.

Finally, yesterday we had no plans and enjoyed a relaxing day at home. We went out for few random things, but nothing stressfull at all. Here are some random videos from yesterday.

being silly from Diya Shah on Vimeo.


pushing her bubble lawn mower from Diya Shah on Vimeo.


big hug coming for mummy from Diya Shah on Vimeo.