3 small posts about Noyonika

Its been a while since I posted about how Noyonika is doing – she’s grown a lot in the last few months, started to babble multi-syllable nonsense (graduating from single syllable nonsense) and grins foolishly a lot. For the last couple of days she’s been having a terrible cough, which the Dr.’s say is Brochitis – Kanchuki & I are feeling down in the dumps since she’s been coughing for a while, but we didn’t take her to the Dr., as she seemed so happy & was eating normally and was behaving like her usual self every other way. 

Anyway, here’s 3 different small posts about her -

Appa taking care of X

Kanchuki was on a business trip last week for 3 days to San Diego, and so I got to take care of X by myself for 3 days – it was a lot of fun, since my baby daughter is really easy to take care of.

The first day went perfect – dropped her off at her daycare, picked her up in the evening, fed her cereal/milk and put her to bed. But then she woke up at 5:15 in the morning and kept looking for her Ma with a puzzled expression on her face – she played till 9:00 in the morning with me happily, I guess assuming that her mom was just out somewhere.

On day two, I picked her up early from daycare and we went out together – there’s nothing like a baby to draw women to talk to you & so me and my accessory went out to Redmond Town Center and hung about in a coffee shop. Now, my daughter clearly loves attention (just like her mom! ) – she gives the most winning smiles to complete strangers, and laughs and giggles at them too! So, the two of us ended up getting a fair share of coo’s & smiles and “Oh, she’s beautiful, how old is she?!”’s. She went to bed late on day 2 and woke up early too – I guess she was missing K by now.

Day 3 was quiet – dropped her at daycare, picked her up and she went to bed early since she hadn’t slept much the night before. Kanchuki returned at 10:00pm that night and later when X woke up she was all grins to see her Ma by her side again!

All in all, it was easy – Kongkona (Kanchuki’s sister) was the most worried, followed by the grandparents, but then they don’t know what a fabulous dad I really am

X’s report card!

X got her first report card from the daycare – it was so amusing. I’ve always been telling K that when she goes to real school, the thing I want most is for her is for her to flunk every subject and be the terror of the school. Now, back to her report card – it’s divided into different sections & she gets a grade for each section, followed by overall comments from the teacher – this is how she did:

• Social/Emotional:
  • Evident/Demonstrates consistently – smiles frequently, resists toy pull
  • Needs more development – works for toy out of reach, plays peek-a-boo, plays pat-a-cake, drinks from cup
•  Physical:
  • Evident/Demonstrates consistently – Follows objects with eyes, has head control, grasps rattle, reaches, turns over, sits on her own, has thumb-finger grasp
  • Needs more development – feeds self finger foods, pulls up and stands on her own
•  Intellectual:
  • Evident/Demonstrates consistently: Discovers hands, laughs, coos, babbles, responds to voices
  • Needs more development: Responds to different noises, shows interest in different sounds/music
•  Comments from teacher: Noyonika has grown so much! She moves herself on the floor and is learning everyday…

Well, from how she’s doing – she doesnt look like she’s on track to become the terror of the school & flunking her grades !

Baby names

Of course all babies get their share of names they get called by. Kanchuki is especially notorious at coming up with different names for X, and I’m not much better – so our daughter is always confused since she’s never called by the same names twice. Also, the mood determines what name is used – is she playful, sleepy, naughty, being bad or just wanting some attention determines the name she is called by… here’s a smattering of baby names X is a.k.a – Tatumi, Tatuma, Dhanuma, Dhanoosh, Putuki, Katuma, Majaan, Jaanjoni, Putuka, Munuka, Kuttu, Kuttuka – these are her “normal” names. Her obscure names include – PV Narasimha Rao (when she finishes her dinner and pouts in satisfaction!), Mr. Jiggy (origin unknown), and the secret GGRKB (she’d die of shame if the name were ever made public!)