The clever, the lazy!

Boo is known for her laziness especially putting things back in order or riding her cycle or helping papa or mummy, she can just ignore you or will distract with other queries! This is one recent incident of her laziness as told by her grandmom. Boo loves to play pretend games, she like to be little baby especially trying to grab attention after inika was born, plays Dr keswani or plays mommy having a baby, playing dora, playing secret agents, gollam anything she has heard about.

She loves puzzles, one of the things she is less resistent to, and forms her ABC puzzle with grandma, now when time to cleanup, we use "cleanup cleanup" barney and works a few times, this time when grandma said its time to cleanup aranya, she thinks for a bit and says grandma - "I be grandma u be aranya" and then she says, "Aranya pick up the puzzle pieces and clean up"!!!

wow! didnt know little brains to scheme so muuuchhhh, or the lazy that she is she has to device methods...

Booboo's first dream

Not a great sleeper that booboos is, one of her usual nights wakes up and wants to eat her cookies around 4am. She is all sleepy hungry so kinda agitated. Nana tries to calm her down with bowl of cookies, she wants to eat it but agitated, I had to step in and distract her with stories, this time I told her how cookie monster made cookies for elmo and the rest, she listened to it very intently and ate her cookies and slept. Later she wakes up in the morning at 7ish and says mommy mommy, I was playing with cookies monster, he was carrying me and elmo and so happy about it, that's when I realized one her first dreams that she could express, now she looks forward to cookie monster and elmo in her dreams every night :)

Amazing!!!

Last to last weekend I was chilling in my bed after feeding booboo her breakfast. After she is fed she likes to play all by herself and its all booboo time. After some time she comes to me and says mama mama "its amazing" "its amazing" i asked her whats amazing booboo? she takes me to the living area and says i pushed the comb in the DVD ..............not sure if I had to shout or be amazed at her usage of the new vocabulary or applaud her on her scientific experiment!!!

Big dada's farm

Last December when we were in India we got to visit as booboo calls big dada's farm. We were enjoying the sunshine, papayas and bicycle ride. In the open courtyard in front of the farm house while we were strolling she was out running behind the kiddos and dogs. Both mama and papa were a distance apart, she called out mama/papa. At the same time we both responded back come to mama, come to papa........we were on either side, she was quite for a while and said mama/papa come to booboo.......that was clever decision not to offend anybody!!!

"o dhot" ?

Now that I have meant to be a more regular writer here's the weekend incident. After an early dinner at "falafal drive-in" we decided to stroll a bit before heading home, especially booboo and her car sickness. Don't know if it is claustrophobia or motion sickness as of now, but has been quite a chore to disassemble the car-seat, wash and reassemble and fix it back. 

Booboo is pretty inquisitive and points to pretty much everything she sees around and and asks "o dhot?" meaning "what's that?" . She points to either something that she does not know about or things that she knows and cannot recollect what's it called. Things that she does not know about after one has replied to her "o dhot" she repeats and says "aaa.."

She could not memorize the name "tombo" - kiki's friend one of the Japanese DVD she watches regularly and would point to the DVD cover and ask "o dhot" ?  When replied "tombo" she is extremly delighted to recollect. After a couple of iterations now she knows and points and says "tombo" with a big smile, almost expecting to be applauded!!

On our stroll, while she was on papa's shoulders all high and happy, she pointed to the building across with a giant lettered name and asked "o dhot" to papa.  Papa responded as tree or light but she kept asking "o dhot"? Then papa said oh! that "AMC Automobile and Co", she replied immediately and said "no, its ABC" !!

She recognizes letters and any letter for her is "ABC", wow! u dont need to be a grown up to trick papa!

Booboo megalomania

Now that my little one knows she's an entity by herself,  she is most keen to introduce herself to strangers, she says "imm booboo" and refers to her belongings as this is "boo's blim bla", it is "boo turn", "boo's (s)poon" etc........  

Recently when I was back home after work, the first thing she asked me was "where's boo papa?" I was stunned and this continued when we saw a grandpa feeding an infant at ikea, she asked me "where's boo dada"? now she pretty much refer's to everything as  hers! she is the center of the universe and everyone/everything belong's to her.

The "done" game

Me and blogging a big na na! shud have been the obvious choice in the internet savy trade I am in, but i have always resorted to the binders, just the resistance to change. I have always wanted to write so my lil one can live her baby years as seen by her mom, especially these first few when the art of memory is still being honed. At 18months she has maybe a week worth of memory.

I was to add these baby years to my hand written journal not until while I was driving this morning when this strange urge to blog arouse, not to speak of the colloquial precious baby years the joy, the warmth in a mom's life, but what has intrigued me most of these yonder years.

Here's to exemplify one. At about 15 months, after giving my lil one a warm bath, I would leave her in the bath tub filled with "pumpa" (her baby language meaning water) where she would play and talk to herself, it was her timeoff from mommy and diapers. She could stay in this world of hers for ever. I would periodically go check on her and ask her if she was done. After a few done's I would pick her up out of the bath-tub. This was a routine for days, when not so long ago she stunned me. My lil one is an early bird, the first one to be up at home. One of the mornings as usual she was up and yelled out loud at mom - "DONE??" with a questionable look, with a commanding expression "isnt it time u were up???" Wow, well said. I would have never been able to use my little vocabulary of merely 20 words so effectively !!! the human brain how it learns to corelate.... I am wonder struck!

This art of applying pieces of information, I belive is what makes the human brain and I bet the IQ?