My sweet little girl

Its been just three months since I updated this blog, but it seems as if years have passed. Ahana seems to be having more matured thinking all of a sudden. She knows that her amma has a baby in her tummy, that’s why she cant sit on her amma. She picks up things for amma coz amma cant bend. She has been waiting for her little brother/ sister to come out so she can hold it, play with it and sleep together. She is jealous that amma & appaji get to sleep together, whereas she gets a separate bed to sleep on. She is waiting for her brother/ sister to come so she can get to sleep on a bunker bed. She waits for family day(mostly weekends), when she can sleep together with amma & appaji, that’s the only day, when the bed does not seem small for all of us to sleep together. She is willing to share her extra pillow with her amma (but not with her appaji J ). To her, amma will need it because she might have a back pain.

Her dad has been taking SERIOUS interest in her development. He wants her to know and learn everything, be it throwing & catching a ball, cycling, writing numbers or alphabets, playing on computer & laptop or reading. There is so much development in such a short time that we are surprised.

Her tricycle has been lying in a corner for the past one year, and finally it has come to use now. Both husband & I have been the sporty types throughout our childhood. We have managed to teach our close ones how to ride a cycle and with our own child we had been facing difficulty to get her to cycle. After much of pushing, she has started cycling. It is the right motivation & the fighting spirit that gets her to do things. Yesterday, for the first time she cycled on the road. And I was happy to see the interest she had the speed at which she could pedal. The competition to her was our next door neighbour girl, five years older to Ahana. Her father always tells that she is on the fatter side, hence unable to cycle, but I have always asked him to give her some time. Finally, after seeing her cycle so well in the last few days, he has this urge to pick up a new bicycle for her. I as usual have asked him to hold on for a year, she needs to enjoy this, make her legs strong, strong enough to handle a bigger cycle.
Whenever her father is home early, he spends time with her, ball catch catch (throwball), teaching her number games on the his laptop & holding the pencil right while righting. She has picked up each of these activities really fast. We have realized, the more time we spend with her, the quicker she is in picking up things.

She was making fuss to go to her music classes two weeks back. Every Saturday morning I had to wake her up convincing her to go in a new dress to show to her teacher. Last weekend, I just told her that I want her to sing just like her amma. Amma used to get a lot of appreciation & prizes when she used to sing at school and she wants the same from her daughter and wants her daughter to teach her new songs. That did it. For the last two weeks, Ahana has been going for her classes without any trouble.

She picked up on using the touchpad in one go yesterday. She still remembers using Paint that her Mama taught her the last time he visited India. The fighting spirit in her, tells her to write again & again till she perfects what she is writing. She is not willing to give up. It’s the challenge that makes her work harder.

Her father got her the KungFu Panda CD a month back. She has watched this movie so many times that she remembers each and every dialogue. We loved the movie and some of the teachings it carries. And to our surprise she uses some of them at the right time. “Don’t worry master, I will never quit” is a perfect line for her.

She is totally a mamma’s girl right now. She believes in me totally, and I have been trying hard to keep that faith alive by telling her whatever I can. Her father believes in convincing her by telling her stories & bribing her J and I believe in convincing her by telling her what is possible & what is not. For now, she is my sweet little girl.

TV Influence?

Today Ahana was convincing her dad that she is a grown up now. And she showed it by standing next to him & showing him that she reached his waist length.
Husband then asked her why she wanted to grow up so fast...why could'nt she remain the same cute chubby girl. And she said, just like Simba says, because...."one day..I just cant wait to be King". (this is a song from Lion King movie).

Auto-Car

Last weekend we had taken Ahana to Dominos for her favorite meal…Garlic Bread with cheese dip.
Husband stopped the Car at a walking distance from Dominos…but for Ahana it seemed to be too far. She refused to get down. I opened the door for her and asked her to jump out. After all the buttering…that did not help really…I finally told her that she had better jump out fast else some vehicle would just come over and hit & take the Car door. And Ahana was quick enough to tell that the Car would then turn into an Auto :-)