Crawling my way through...

Haven’t been writing for so long, but lots of things have happened in between. Now…I can crawl…yahooooooooooo. But getting to where I am now was not easy. I first did the froggie jump for several weeks. It was not crawling, but it helped me move around, albeit by jumping. Everyone around made fun of me…they thought I am not going to crawl at all. I kept quiet all the while and practiced. I tried to sit slowly in between. Then, I started standing…boy, I love d it and still do. And gradually, I started crawling, slowly, steadily by the week starting 28 May. Now, I am practicing each day to better it. Mom started solid food for me on 27 April. That was the day when we had the official Annaprasan. We had it at home…and tha-tha, patti and mom fed me with the first morsels of solid food—paal payasam and honey. It was weird at first, but I must admit, tasty…yummy. The following weeks saw more solid food being introduced—Idli, potato mash, daal ka paani, daab water and cerelac. Mom was experimenting with my taste buds. On the evening of 27 April, my Periamma arrived with Anika akka and Periappa. It was a month full of fun, but mom kept getting jittery. Anika was still a little girl and loved me. All she wanted to do was to have me on her lap and every time she would try to do that or even get closer to me, you should’ve seen mom…she would PANIC. It was funny to see that…poor mom J I must admit that I have been scared sometimes too, but Anika was the only little one I could play with. She would take me around in the pram, sing for me, have babytalk with me…it was fun. Dad was supposed to visit us too…but fell ill and so could not come L I have forgotten his face now! But mom says we will move to Chennai soon and she doesn’t sound happy when she says that. Until then, I have the whole house here to practice crawling…wow!!!