We are crawling and cruising..

and how! Miss Aghoo started to crawl quite latish ( around 9 months ) - but man did she start! There is no stopping her now. She will not sit idle even for one minute. She also loves to cruise- walk by holding on to the couch/ furniture etc.All in a span of a couple of days.

She can now show " tata" on demand and tries to do " clap clap clap " when she is in the mood to oblige.
Like her dada says, I think she spent too much time in the " how to be cute and adorable" class and did not have time to attend the " how to eat and sleep" class before she was born! When we try  to feed her her dinner/ lunch/bf, she shakes her little head and purses her lips. She even says " nananana " - it is adorable , but also very frustrating at times:).

Sleeping is another issue altogether- she still wakes up multiple times in the night to feed. I don't have the heart to let her cry - so we do the feed/ sleep/rock routine all night long.

Her first Diwali was spent with her grand mother ( dada's mom)/ parents/ Lakshmi patti/ Chitappa and Chithi. She looked very pretty in her little pattu pavadai.

We are going on a  vacation to Hawaii next week- fingers crossed that all goes well!

9 months..

This is a big one- My baby turns 9 months old tomorrow. It may sound cliched- but she has now lived outside of my body for longer than she was inside of my body.Some how this one is a huge milestone in my mind.
Little Aghoo is now her own little person- she laughs/cries/admonishes us/ gets angry /gets frustrated/ is impatient - and many more things that I cant remember right now. Some new developments

- She is now almost crawling- she takes 2 weary (crawl) steps to get to me or to a toy etc.
- She can now signal that she is done eating (:P) by shaking her head vigorously!!
- Today, she said " amma maa maa maa ma" as soon as I came into the room. I want to believe that that was her official first word :) ( amma)
- She has been able to pull herself up by holding on to one of us or to the couch. She even tries to take 1 or 2 steps if we hold her hands
-She loves loves loves to bounce on the sofa .
-  She eats 3 "solid" meals now!
-If she sees something she wants, she just WANTS it- there is no distracting her :P
- She LOVES water.I put a little bit of water in her high chair and she just loves to play with it. She LOVES to play in her bath tub too.She absolutely loves drinking water as well.

In other milestone news,Aghoo was dressed as a little lady bug for her very first Halloween. She and the neighborhood kids went trick or treating in the community. At one house, when her dada and I were busy talking, she just went straight for the candy bowl and grabbed one :P Oh My!


Babynoosh,
You are such a joy kanna- Keep smiling and spreading joy :) Love you to bits..