13 months!

Weeks in review

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What’s up with all these pictures?

1.    After months of worrying, he just did it one day. He held the bottle and fed himself. Like a boss.

2.    We went to visit mama (Anand’s uncle) at the nursing home and he we wouldn’t believe he just sat there with him. It was so cute!

3.    Eons ago before I met Anand I dreamed that when I got married I would dance to Frank Sinatra’s The Way You Look Tonight. There is a line in the song that goes, “…And that laugh that wrinkles your nose…” I mean look at that picture. C’mon!

4.    If you zoom in on this picture he looks like a little girl. A really cute little girl. I know he will one day hate me for this. Note how foi accidently photo boomed in this picture.

5.    This was at my parents’ house in NJ this week. I like to think he is pretend talking to me on the phone.

6.    Who needs toys when you have newspapers?!?! My dad is starting bad habits letting him play with newspapers. From what I hear, he (my dad) folded all the papers after Veer was done and saved it for Veer to play with them next day.  Oh goodie, I can’t wait till he is back home and wants to do the same!

Veer is visiting my parents in NJ for a week. It’s been 3 days since I have not seen him and I miss him like crazy. Anand and I wake up in the morning and wonder what to do. We have all this extra time (like ½ hour) to just do our own thing or sleep. By now we pick the latter. At night time sometimes I roam around in the kitchen with this suspicious feeling like I should be doing something: getting lunch ready for tomorrow, figuring out if I have enough bananas for his breakfast, cleaning up his “toys” (Tupperware) or sanitizing his bottles. It seems like he is doing fine and barely misses us. Either that or my parents won’t tell us that he misses me. Meanies.

I have decided this blog will take a new turn. I will start my own pinterest projects on here in addition to updating everyone on Veer’s growth. SO my goal right now is to do one project a month. I am already working on one of the project now. More on in later in the week or next week!

Birthday Celebrations

I feel guilty that I haven’t written in almost two weeks. Although the weekly documentation is over, I still want to record his growth. 

Veer and Anya

We celebrated Veer’s birthday in NJ last weekend. And although the adult to kid’s ratio was very very low, we had a great time and so did Veer. He finally met his cousin Anya, who is about 2.5 months younger than him. She is a cutie. It was fun to see how much a child grows in 2 months. Anya can stand with support now and crawl, whereas Veer can walk. I can’t believe just a few months ago he couldn’t walk.

Yes, my face is super sweaty. Don't judge. It was hot and I am going thru menopause.

 

 

 

He also started a new habit of pretending to talk on the phone. It all started in England. One day I was talking on the phone and he was looking at him holding his hand to his ear. At first I thought he had an ear infection because he kept doing that a lot. Later we realized he was imitating us. Anytime the phone rang or saw us on the phone, he would put his hand on his ear. Now he even takes a phone or at times a remote control and pretends to talk. We have even heard him say, “hi” while on the phone. It’s adorable.

We had his 1 year physical today. His height is 32 and a quarter inches, where as his weight is 20 lbs. 9oz. he is the 97 percentile for his height and 15 for his weight. The doctor gave us some great advice on what to feed him and I look forward to making him chubby (although I doubt that. Have you seen Anand?!?!).

We are not feeding him half milk and half formula. We have one more carton of formula to go thru and after that it’s all whole milk. I can’t wait till the day we can do that. Although now that I think about it, it might be a pain in the butt when traveling to store the milk in a cold container. Darn. We are trying to wean him off his binkie. Today is day #3 of no binkie during the day. He has been fine so far. We let him have it when going to bed. I think maybe next week we will have to cut that out too.

I think this age is my favorite so far because he is so much more responsive. He comes over to give me hugs and kisses. He is semi-independent. He entertains himself. He sometimes listens. I can actually do my work without having to hold him or comfort him. Plus, he is just fun. Watching him walk in an open space is hilarious. He puts his hands up and tries to run. Sometimes I can’t stop laughing because he looks like Phoebe on Friends during the episode when she runs in the park like a crazy person.