Hi friends,

Rishi completed six months just a few minutes ago. Looking back, I am for sure missing that tiny soft face and all the smiles and cries in sleep.

Like many of you, I cannot believe that I am a mom for six months!!! I have gone through so much emotionally and now so many incidents seems to be silly but then it was very heartbreaking. Like his SCFN. Even now sometimes when I massage him before his bath I go through my hands everywhere to make sure there are no lumps.

I should definitely say Rishi is getting better now and he feeds ok with my MIL. He was giving a hard time to my mother only. He is also very active, tries a lot to crawl with his knees bent but doesn't know to balance with hands, instead does it with his head :) and moves very fast.

He loves his rubber toys especially because he can chew them and when I put him in the pram and he is bored, he turns in the pram and lifts his head and chews all the rods in it!!! He loves it when I make kissing sound and squeals when I play peek-a-boo.

I am giving him my feed twice in the morning - one at 5AM and one at 8.30ish and he has a nap then. He has wheat kanji by 11 after a bath and then I feed him again during lunch (at1.30-2). He has ragi kanji again at 5 and some mosambi juice in-between(Paddoo, my MIL is against me giving him apple juice:((() I feed him again at 8 and he dozez off by 10.30... I feed him again then, or he gets up at 2.30 for a feed. This schedule is ok with me, he atleast doesn't wake up every hour!!!

If he screams I don't pick him up, I do that only if it changes to a cry. This is because he thinks screaming on top of his voice is a game and keeps playing it all the time he is awake.

Will take pictures and post soon. He is my life now... even Shyam has taken the second place:)

Kisses to all cuties. And hugs and kisses to all of you... thanks for all the support and love.

Love,
Vani
swathi replied. Hi Vani,

Congrats to Rishi on completing 1/2 year!! time just flies na?
I got to see your anniversary photos..are very nice...you both look very young and romantic!

Big hug to Rishu from Rajju,
swathi Reena replied. Hi dear,

I loved reading your and R dear's schedule-totally around the clock yaar. I am so happy that his sleeping situation has gotten much better-remember woh bhi pehle Rishu jaisa hi tha. Hopefully mera betu dear bhi theek ho jayega. Full credit to you for managing work and home so well Vani. I am sure you must be dead by the time Rishi goes to sleep. And cant imagine how you come home to manage his feeds etc and bathe him too. Teri saand kya sirf TV hi dekhti hai saara din???? Accha tell me one thing for curiousity sake what kind of work are you into, i know you are into IT but some more details etc..just wanting to know more about your profession too as we have hardly discussed that. Padoo se bhi poochna hain same cheez. And since you are feeding him in the morn and nite, dont yr boobs swell up at work or it it ki body adjust kar leta hain acc to when your baby wants and so it produces only in the morn and nite? Naive question na? Seriously teri body to machine ki tarah chalti hogi saara din!!
I too pray that yr MIL leaves and your Mom comes fast. I totally know what you mean by OILY food that she makes as my MIl is excatly the same. Her way of showing love is to put more ghee and oil in the roti and sabjis! I used to have a hard time eating it.
Aaj R ka appt tha, willw rite in detail as soon as I get a chance, Rishu is crying na and so have to go but wanted to write much more to you so will do that kal ok..
Bye and take care Reena Srilalitha replied. Hi Vani
Wishes to Rishi on his 1/2yr bday.

Time just seems to fly so fast. Same time last year we felt them crawling in our belly, and now we see them crawling. Sometimes it is hard to believe that these little ones were once those tiny babies that came home, and we were holding them delicately.

These flashbacks do come in my mind when my mind is idle for a couple of hrs. We have a pic of Kaaustaaub taken after the cradle ceremony on the wall, and I keep telling him how small and good he was then, and how naughty he has become.

. Good to hear that he is getting into somewhat of a schedule and he is doing good.

Kaaustaaub is 7 mnths, and is yet to get into a schedule. We are always on-call.


Sri