Diya's new videos

If you didn't already know Diya loves dogs especially Cody(our neighbor's dog).




Here is a glimpse of what she's like on a normal day at home.

new stuff around the house

Some new stuff in our house. First, its Diya's new bedding! Ended up going with Tinker-Bell. The comforter is so big for Diya. Plus the bed rail doesn't help. It was like a sea of blanket which Diya gets lost in. I've been folding it in half and covering her.

Second, is our newly designed living room. Well, just a new TV with a new setup. We just did this past Saturday. I have to say it looks better then I expected. We moved all the toys in the other room which we now call the 'toy room'.

You look tired....you think?!?!

Get ready cause in this post I am venting my anger. Feel free to stop reading.

If one more person tells me that I look tired I may just explode. Its like telling the sun 'you look yellow'...duh! Give me a break people...I mean lets look at the facts. I'm 8 months pregnant...I'm not getting good sleep...I'm carrying around an extra 25 lbs...I can barely reach my toes...my back is constantly killing me...and I have a very active toddler. So yeh, I am a little tired and when someone tells me that I look tired its not helping. I feel like crap...I don't need to be reminded that I look like crap too. It would be understandable if someone who doesn't have kids or if a guy says this. But, no. Women who have gone through pregnancy are saying this to me. You'd think they would have something nicer to say. Well, I have news for you people. Get used to it cause if you think I look tired now...wait 'till the baby arrives! So the next time you see me, if you could refrain from saying 'you look tired', it would be greatly appreciated.

Phew...ok...I feel better now. I'm done.

not the average fever

What a week! Last weekend Diya started getting sick and we thought 'oh great here we go again'. On Monday we thought she was on the road to recovery...boy, were we wrong. It turned out to be the worst sickness she's ever had. Tuesday morning daycare called saying she had a fever. She ended up having it for almost 4 days after that. She didn't touch her toys. She wanted to sleep or be held all the time. She was very cranky. It was a totally different Diya. She stayed home from daycare for 4 days. I took one day off and Premal took a couple and my mom helped us out on Friday.

Doc said she had a virus and we just had to wait for it to take its course. We could only give her meds(tylenol and Ibuprofin) to help with fever and aches and pain. She also ended up having a slight ear infection. We were very surprised at this since that was the point of getting tubes! Doc said it was unfortunate and explained that some dirt may have gotten in and partially blocked the tubes. That was just great news for us. Anyway, past weekend she was pretty much back to her normal active self.

We are definitely seeing more obvious signs of the terrible-two's. She screams so loudly when she doesn't get her way. If we yell at her she will run off crying and go to another room. She is showing signs of mini tantrums. If we take something out of her hands she cries, falls to the ground and kind of bangs it. This will be lots of fun to deal with when #2 arrives ;-)

On a more positive note, I am 2 months away from my due date. Premal brought down Diya's newborn clothes from the attic and I totally enjoyed going through them. I can't wait for him to set up the new dresser so I can start organizing it. We will need to make one more trip to the attic for the bouncer, Diya's old milk bottes, and some other random things. I'm starting to get really excited about #2! Seeing a couple of babies past weekend has gotten me even more excited. I'm also really hoping she will be early.

I'm also excited that Neha will be coming here to help us out. Her tickets aren't final yet, but she's coming begining of May and staying about a month. She is amazing with kids and I totally trust her with mine.

That's it for now.

trip to NC

We made it back in one piece from out NC trip. We all had a really, really great time. I got to relax and eat while Premal got to sleep. Diya...she loved having someone ready to play with her at any time of the day. The weather was so nice there she even got to play outside a couple of time. And of course she got to eat tons of goodies.

Diya's first flight experience was pretty much what we expected. Kinda crazy. We made one big mistake...we didn't bring a stroller with us. We were on the fence about bringing it. We finally decided not to take it thinking it would get in the way and it would mean one extra thing we would have to carry. But in the airports Diya was running around a mile-a-minute and taking full advantage of all the open space. It was difficult to catch her. Thank God Deesh and Vipul were with us. They helped out a lot. But we realized a stroller would have helped. In the plane she slept most of the time both ways. We had her video to keep her occupied when she was awake. It wasn't a long flight so that part wasn't too bad. Hopefully, when we finally make that trip to India Diya will be a bit more managable...she will be close to 2.5 yrs by then. No definite plans on the trip yet, but most likely will be late this year...like Nov or Dec.

Here are pictures from our NC trip. Their aren't too many pics.

Trip to NC

Here are Diya's pictures from the last month.

Diya in Feb 2009