3 Months!

Dear Bulbul, 

Kudos to us! We've reached the 3-months milestone.

This month V and I became very rebellious and took you over to the beach. Guess how you responded to being taken there? You had an absolutely wonderful and relaxed sleep. You You didn't give a damn about the noises, the rising sun, or the cold breeze, and slept peacefully. I just hope you grow to love the beach more. It's one of the best things in Chennai, and we'd love to take you there often. 

We went to the Miniroo exhibition that happened this month at the Crowne Plaza. That place is every kids' heaven. I guess the kids knew it, because despite the crowd and the noise and so many little and not-so-little kids and toddlers in the hall, there were hardly any cry outs or tantrums. The expo had all kinds of  kids products right from cloth diapers to dresses to accessories to shoes and healthcare products. My sole purpose of going to that expo was to get a baby carrier, so that we can carry you along like how a Kangaroo carries its baby. I wanted to try it once before purchasing it outright, and this expo happened just at the right time. V decides to try it first with you and guess what, you settled in pretty cosily and slept off. And thus, the carrier was purchased. I managed to take you out for walks with it only a couple of times due to lack of adequate time. Hoping we'll go more places with it !

Icing on the cake was, as we came out of the expo, guess whom we meet! CSK's very own Thala and Chinna Thala.. Dhoni & Raina. 

The biggest milestone of this month is that you recognize people. That is, you understand when somebody is trying to interact with you and what more, you respond with your billion dollar toothless smile. And the very first time you did that to me, it sure was a "kannula-thanni-vechunda" moment. 

You don't sleep even if you're mildly wet. You keep twisting and turning and if nobody notices all that, you finally let you a couple of koin-koins, which we usually take as a sleeping cue, but when you constantly let out koin-koins every 5 seconds, it finally dawns on us to check if you're wet. It's really sad that you'd have to use only koin-koin for everything you need, be it food, sleep or just some attention. I'm slowly becoming a pro in understanding your cues, but sometimes it becomes a tough game of guessing and I get lost and clueless. But hey, don't you worry, this shall soon change as you grow. 

You love when people lift you by the arm and make faces at you swinging you up & down.  You can't contain your excitement and laugh ever so cutely. Now that you've grown a little, you've started demanding that we hold you over our shoulders and take a walk around the house so that you can see various things, trees, people and smile at random things as if you both had a great conversation.

You always wake up with such joy in the morning that it is as if you telling me, "Ma, it's a beautiful life, come let's enjoy!" Gives me immense pleasure to see you like this and that morning smile instantly makes my day.

You love curtains and keep smiling at them all the time. Also, you're so attracted to lights. Staring and laughing at them is your favorite passtime. 

Lastly, from blowing raspberry bubbles, you've started drooling over saliva. One jollu party you are. You're busy learning the art of putting hand in mouth. Sometimes, the entire hand, sometimes a couple of fingers. But everything is always left. Be it the side you turn your face, or the fingers you put in the mouth or the cycling of legs. Left is always a priority over the right for you, leaving me to wonder what this is going to mean!

And that's the gist of your 90 days life on earth. Can't wait for you to grow up, and at the same time, don't want to you, because you're the best at this moment.

Love, 

J