Third month

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Malootty you loved your first international flight journey. You were marveled by the sight of all the tiny lights on the roof of the airplane at night. We met Anu and Renu, my very best friends. We stayed with Anu and the first day you slept so much that Anu nick named you "kumbhakarni".

You got a very warm welcome at Nedumbassery airport. Your achachan, chita and ammavan came to the airport to receive us. Achamma stayed home to prepare for your stay.You got adjusted to the new climate very quickly. Jet lag didn't affect you much.

You love to hear your chitta singing. When she stops you try to imitate her. You are loved by all. Gopu kochachan and deepu kochachan pampers you a lot. You get excited when your ammavan talks to you. Last day you laughed a lot when he was talking to you. Ammamma made him shave his beard and mustache saying you may not like it. :) You respond a lot when peramma ammoomma talks to you.

Your muthassi prepared virgin coconut oil specially for you. I am so glad that you have a great grand parent who will adore you and whom you will adore. It is such a big blessing.

And you have become a chechi real quick. Parvathy appachi was blessed with a baby girl on Oct 6th. We went and met your aniyathikutty.

You are trying to roll over but needs someone's help to come to one side. After that you manage to roll over and looks like you are enjoying laying on your tummy.

You coo a lot to calendar. You are amazed by it, especially when a page lifts due to the fan. You also love clocks. Hhmm may be you are fascinated by numbers, who knows.

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Two months

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In this second month Malooty has started smiling a lot. When she looks into my eyes and give that toothless grin, I feel like gobbling her up. She looks at everyone in the eye and talk in  her own language. She loves to watch the leaves in the trees move in the wind from our balcony. She doesn't like to be left alone. She prefers sitting in someone's lap all the time. She need to be swaddled or someone should hug her tight for her to sleep peacefully. She loves to hear lullabies sung by her appoppan. She smiles and talks a lot to her ammoomma when she gives her oil massage. She sucks her achan's nose when she starts to feel hungry. She sucks in her sleep which is very funny and adorable to watch.

She loves taking bath, but feels cold soon after bath is done and starts crying. Most of the time she sticks her tongue out when she smiles and she looks damn cute.

appoppan's chakkara

Ammoomma's ambadikuttan

Achan's thakkudu

Amma's kunjappi

Last day when her chitta and ammavan came online to see her, she stayed awake. Unlike the normal days she didn't sleep at all. From 7pm till they came online at 11 pm she didn't sleep. I think that is the longest stretch she has stayed awake till now.

This month we took her for some long trips. She is not a big fan of her car seat especially when she is sleepy. So we swaddle her after she is asleep and then put her in car seat. She also traveled by air for the first time. We all went to Las Vegas by flight. That she didn't mind at all. She has also started talking a lot these days. Her chitta, ammavan, achamma and achachan are waiting  eagerly to meet her. This month we are travelling to India to meet all. 

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Ritu - Our angel

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I  remember the doctor saying, "oh she has lots of hair". And then I saw two very pretty pink hands and legs going up in the air and then a screech. That is how she came into our lives. Our darling daughter Ritu

She smiles and cries during her sleep. She loves sitting in her car seat. Majority of the days she sleeps well in the night getting up only for the feedings.

 Ritu, may you be as vibrant as the seasons.

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Finally, I did it!

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I have been shying away from doing this since a long time. My mother has been behind me telling me to do it. My friends have asked me why not do it. But I resisted all because I wasn't sure if I will be able to dedicate the time and effort required for this. I might lose interest later on. I might not be consistent with it and so on.

But then, why now? Well, one reason is that I'm jobless now( Yeah, resigned from my job to relocate temporarily from India to US with my husband ), the second is that I thought, why not have a journal for myself. If its just for myself, I need not be consistent right.  :)

So now that I have decided that I am going to start a blog, I shall ponder on what to write in my first post ever. Why not write about the person who is the reason behind this blog. My sweet mother. She is the one who believes that I can write well, who keeps all the poems I have written very safely(well I myself don't like the ones that I wrote in my school time, so childish; but she adores all of them). She can talk and talk and talk. She is the one who taught me there is nothing impossible in life. She believes that if we truly desire for something and then work for it, it will materialize. She is the reason why I attended a variety of classes like sewing, karnatic music, thiruvathirakali, geetha classes and so on. She was upset when I joined Bharatanatyam classes after I started working and kept on asking me if she should have enrolled me to that one when I was a child. (She was worried that probably she didn't notice I had a passion for that.) She is the one who introduced me to the only Malayalam novels that I have ever read. And she does read the English ones that i suggest her. This blog is dedicated to you, Amma.

Achan & Amma @ Lalbagh, Bangalore, India

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