Zoey tells me her first story, and its hilarious but fun!

So its a ritual to tell her umpteen stories when she goes to bed, but today she decided to tell me a story as well. Papa opined that i should write it down before i forget…

There are 2 little birdies sitting on a donkey. they are going shopping. But the donkey fell down and broke his leg. Mama called doctor and he put medicine. Then they saw a frog. Frog was very sad, he lost his friends.Birdy wanted new cinderella dress so she went shopping. Gave money to uncle. then she was tired. she came home. watched doraemon.mama made semiya for birdies. Birdy drank chocolate milk, became very strong. Then she went out play bat ball. Got tired. then she go to bed. good night sleep tight dononono bugs tite( thats how she says dont let the bugs bite)
Then i started patting Zoey to sleep….. 15 mins of patting and she is in her wonderland. Zoey you growing up so fast… its fascinating, today you also scolded me and told me I should not disturb papa- he is working !

~ Mama

dont worry papa

so we are running on the roads and i tell her  careful, slow ,dont fall and she replies “dont worry papa” , i was zapped , where is she picking up these sentences.. she can converse in telugu , hindi and english and also scream “run fast ” at the top of her lungs 

i have to scan her passionate painting pieces lest it gets lost …

and zoe i will always worry about u

makings of dadi -ma

how fast time flies , from the crying whining baby to one who corrects me and reminds me of things to do, apparently i didnot wear the straps in my sandals and reminds me of things to go shopping , carries my bags … asks me to cut short talking to mama so that she can talk to her.

she has to pick her own clothes , we cannot interfere and now she wants to my clothes also , gives rise to interesting combination of colors that i wear outside now, but i cannot complain , she has turned to be the sweet , cute , intelligent kid that i always knew she would be , i am just enjoying every minute with her and hope it stays like this for long ( i know i know it wont)

we just got back from running around our apartment outside and stopping at every stray paper , kicking it ,shrieking like crazy and running away till we see another paper ,i hope you remember these fun days z

i remember  a conversation between mom and z 

poo: did u go to  school today

z: yesh i went school morning

p : what did you do 

z: A B C , twinkle twinkle

p: did you sing songs

z: (busy doing puzzles and sort of made a face) A B C

i think thats her first big conversation we had

now she sleeps , wonder what new things will crop up tomorrow

holi day

it was the day before holi, so she came from school with colors on cheeks and was very excited about the whole scenario, 

evening there was a bonfire called holika something( have no idea why ) but was fun , i did a dance around it with her on my shoulders and she enjoyed , and she met her preschool friend ankoor, i guess and they ended up running around in circles and that was loads of fun for her. life is so simple , you just run around and thats fun

then she got cranky and was adamant that i buy her the  colors and giving fake wails of crying, the one with sound effects and no tears, i was strong for about 10 seconds and i gave in but i was also adamant that she cannot open it today indoors . guess she was tired and mom took her into bed so she dozed away

she loves calling mom as madam..:P

my bad , will post more updates!!

shes growing up, wat else can we expect …. of course shes growing up!

talks a lottttttttttttttttttttttt , its the “what is this?” phase, thank god it is still not the “why?” phase yet
she also remembers a lot and has started framing sentences , today it was ” i want bubbles ” and since we
told her we will go get it , she kept reminding us every couple of hours and also to go to clubhouse1 and
get new laddoos. she loves school , which is weird since i never found it fascinating.

Loves her mom a lot , and makes it a point to tell her about it, she also tells me she likes me and other
times she says she does not , so its a bit confusing from my end. sometimes she wanders off with her gaze
fixed at something , suggesting that shes thinking , am very curious about what that is

she also sings songs and making it up as it goes on, loves playing water and tickling and presently its
readiny story books.
oh yesterday she said “sorry papa” for making me clean her poopy , am totally sure she did not mean it,
but it did bring a nice smile

momma does get annoyed real fast because she does know which strings to pull at mom for her to loose it
, sometimes she apologizes and then they both hug and patch up ,sometimes it takes prodding from my
part but she listens to me , so thats still a plus point

loves to clean , cook ,wash hands , put mehendi(recent), scribble everywhere , call me naughty boy .. am
teaching her fist pumps ( works only 50% for now)

Just over 2 woohoo!

Its been so long that I have updated this blog, Sorry Zoey! Call me lazy!

You have been growing everyday, taller, smarter and ofcourse naughtier! When it comes to being naughty- i guess papas genes are to be solely blamed!

You are a little over two, and we did celebrate your birthday at your playschool in a very humble way, but the next one is going to be a grand one-Promise!

You have many friends at ur playschool and teachers love you and praise you all the time. Apparently you dont show any signs of being indisciplined outside the house! And people wont believe us if told how willful u are at home! Ah I personally have been blaming the drama on what they call as “the terrible twos”

You love being independant, And you love to mimic. Now we even sing and dance together – and i hold your cute little fingers over the tiny little keyboard organ we got you- play twinkle stars..

Your vocabulary is growing at a pace faster than i thought, and you manage to surprise me when you frame sentences these days. I cant quite count how many times do we sing your favorite “I love you- barney song” and “the A BC song”- everyday, a dozen repeats!

You have gotten to like my favorite cartoon too -Doremon! yay!

The one that that hasnt changed, and i am slowly starting to give up- is the fuss u create at mealtimes- U are SO PICKY!!

Just so that i recollect- the milestones that you have reached

1) You know a whole lot of alphabets

2) U know a dozen poems- well almost

3) You love scribbling on the walls. ! You love to play with roti dough

4) You love doing puzzles

5)You help me make our evening chai! with great interest

6)We seldom do some baking together

7)And the biggest of all – You are Potty trained woohoo!!!!!!!!

Ah and did i mention- when you wake up in the morning, hug and kiss me before i leave for office- my heart just melts- Cant thank you enough for the joy you have brought into my life. You grow everyday- but for me- you are always going to be my little bubbsie girl

big day

huge huge day yesterday , after months of her mom’s training and total exasperation that it will never ever going to happen , zoe finally got toilet trained , thrice in one day , she asked to go to the loo and she did it

edit: sunday and she has forgotten about it

so beyond that , what has been happening for last 3 months …hmm
jun 20th she has started preschool, and it has progressed great , she has new friends the names she usually utters are pitunia, aadhu,siddarth ,kirthik and some others which i cannot understand..
she talks a lot , plays a lot , unlimited energy, all her teeth are out i think … she loves jumping up and down sometimes on the bed , mostly on momma’s back …she likes flying and going round and round, cakes (chocolates) and real choci
she had a long bout of cold and clogged nose, you can blame my side of the family for that ,i think it lasted for 2 weeks and then she that went away

she loves drawing / doodling and now she can draw faces and today she has 2 scars on her leg which she calls as eyes and she draws imaginary nose and mouth.draws flowers , can do puzzles , matching matching, 5 x5 tiles of them, can count to 10 ,repeat alphabets with barney , oh i so hate him still.
just want to tell her this ….stop growing so fast ,and yes jumping ,pinching and scratching me hurts and i will shreik and shout NO ,,, that does not mean you cry and run to your mom

updates finally :D

finally i got time to get this thing going again , many apologies

well let me get her developments in bullet points in no specific time order

a) you have 8 teeth at top and 4 more at bottom , never realized when it came because you are cranky all the time
b) you have lots of friends who keep coming home and taking you out and they recognize me as your dad
c) screaming in my ear has made me half deaf , of course your mom blames it on my age
d) you love dogs and every day i have to enact two dogs fighting each other with soft toys
e) you have moved out of rompers to pajamas
.) since its summer you like taking bath .. you know that word also
.) you have started scribbling on every thing that you can get and the floors … still havent touched the walls
.) we went to a party and you were well behaved
.) you eat mostly everything when you are in mood which is kinda rare
.) adamant , bossy , very loud
.) did i mention adamant
.) likes cycles , mud , water , slides ok ok, merry go round — meh
.) ran straight onto a wall when playing in the bedroom , banged , fell down then got up started running
.) had cold for a long time and had to give medicine with a mist sprayer
.) you know a lot of words and you are trying hard to talk with us with some strange gibbberish words like kaboodle kaboode kaboodi
.) you still look at stars and moon as soon as we go out in evening and ask us to sing twinkle twinkle
.)you have started liking softtoys and refuse to go out of house without taking one or 2 of them
.) you can throw a ball but not catch yet , kicking is great
.) you interact with absolute strangers and i like to stay back and watch it with great amusement
.) you poked mama’s eye with your nail and now its swelled up like a tabletennis ball , funny for a while, not after that ,

okay will add in once i remember more

if i havent mentioned shes adamant , then i have to add it. ADAMANT

crankiness

and so it starts , slowly but steadily Z has started to realize that she can throw tantrums , she can cry if things dont go her way , i have learnt to block it out for now but momma cant , so either she gives in or yells back
she also digs into poo in sleeptime , so much so that puu falls off the bed, dont know why but she hates my touch in her sleep
me and z play football in the park downstairs now that she has started to kick the ball , its super fun , she loves to play with other kids and her socialness still continues .
lots of new words has been added , water , soap (she applies soap during bath too) ,tiger , bear , fish, bubble ( she loves bubbles and even pulled puu one day to the bubblemaker and asked her to blow) car ( has to point at every car and yell ” CARRRRRRR” ) shoes , socks , uh-oh , good girl ( this happened today) and the ever present “huh”
she also saw a frog today and tried imitating the frog hopping , hilarious
runs on the roads , hates holding my hand or puu’s hand , eats about everything that is given to her , except food prepared for her , kids!!!

haircut whee!

last weekend , we could hardly see her eyes when her hair dropped down , so we got her a chop chop , praying very badly so that she doesnt cry and worry our sleep ..turned out that she cried for a minute when her hands were behind the sheet , once that was removed she gladly got it chopped , just giving hard stares at the guy who was cutting it though,

sometime before that ,during playing her nose met the ground for the first time , and i guess it hurt a lot that she cried for a record 5 mins .. , still doesnot like the swings and slides , only prefers her growing collection of balls , which she has now progressed to throwing and kicking and will gladly offer to anyone in the park that she sees,only last 2 so far

she knows to operate the remote of the tv , as in she can switch it on and then randomly mash buttons till the channel changes to some loud music , in which she apparently dances ( nods her head and shakes her knee) , one good thing is that she likes animal planet and for some reason its the “bear ” week so she has now learnt those 2 words , bear and fish, lets see what animal planet comes up with next week

eating : anything and everything especially whatever i am eating ,and specially not the ones which we cook for her with a lot of effort , idlis , rotis , dosai , eggs , fish , mutton , rice , ragi , oats ,bananas and apples ( which reminds me , i really cannot take those nursery rhymes , way annoying )

sleeping , i reduced it once per day , i remember reading that at this stage one is not enough and 2 is more , but ever since i reduced to one , she just sleeps double the usual time , dont know what it was supposed to solve ,so thats that

oh z i totally forgot , momma did not stop a baby boy kissing you at the park ,i was not there or else i would have stopped it, all her fault