MIA's First Cold

MIA got her first cold last Friday with indigestion. It was really difficult for us to see her suffer coughing. We took her to the doc last nite and gave her medicine. Her cold and cough is better today and also her tummy. She hasn't Been eating well from the past few days. Dashain's just got over and we cudn't go to didi's dashain party and my fren Srijana's daughter's 2nd year b'day party. Thank god she got it after dashain coz she was able to enjoy it and we had fun with her.
bhadrakali temple with baba
ready for dashain party
kumari puja
tika haha

Life is beautiful

Each day spent with MIA is so much of fun. Life is beautiful. She is more in love with her Baba than with me and I tell him that’s coz she loves to go out and he takes her out as an whenever she wants. I am not complaining. It gives me immense pleasure to watch them together. From the past few weeks she has started to wave bye bye. She just looks adorable whenever she does that. Last week when we went to Sanepa, she scolded fufuma hahah it was so funny the way she screamed whenever fufu tried to carry her.
MIA’s first track suit
She wants to write her diary

Do I look cool…with Baba dear
I love my family…Happy Father’s day to Junge BaGood Morning All
With Nat who got me Elmo from Australia

Nat met her in Sanepa when she had come down for her project. Sarah, Sam and she got MIA an Elmo.
Ananta Uncle got me the blocks

And the time passes by...

With Mamu and Junge Ba in Sanepa
I don’t know where did the diary I wrote vanished. I didn’t realize it’s already been two months. I did write once or twice in between but when I opened the document it’s not there. MIA is in her 8 months now and she now has four teeth, can run in the walker; sit on her own for long without supports. She also has very sensitive ears; she can hear even the smallest of sound. I don’t know about other kids her age but she is smart to. She knows when we ask her where the fan is in the kitchen; she looks up to the exhaust fan. She caught her first cold last week, we were so tensed, and thank god it wasn’t so serious. We stopped taking her out to see the doggy in the morning, because it’s getting chillier. We take her our only after 8 these days. She loves to go out, and will be happy whenever she is out roaming. It’s becoming less difficult for me in the night too; she doesn’t wake up to often, but in the gap of 3 hours. I didn’t go to Bankok this time because we were not comfortable leaving her for 4 days. Life is becoming more beautiful with everyday. To see her slime and cry, when she hugs you and kisses you. She has started recognizing her Baba too and is happy whenever he is around, which gives him immense pleasure. Her routine has also fallen into place from past one month. She gets up around 4-5-6, eats biscuit with us, plays exactly for 1 and half to two hours, then sleeps for half an hour. She eats cerelac with dal (lentils) the again sleeps for around two hours. In the afternoon she eats banana or any other fruit and in the evening avocado or cheese. It has become easier to take care of her. She is a good gal. She loves to play with papers, likes to tear it into pieces. She also celebrated her first father’s day. It was so lovely to celebrate everything with her.

6th Mths complete...

MIA completes 6 mths day before by the AD calendar and she completes 6 mths day after by the BC calendar hahaha, it’s funny though. However, she is stepping on her 7th mth with full of new energy. In the last mth she could roll on her back, she could sit without support, recognize her fren Anna and the most important thing was that she has learnt to cry less less and laugh more more. Loving every moment of it. My frens call her lucky as I have left my job to be with her and me lucky, as I could watch her grow in front of me.
It is kind of difficult to feed her, but I guess it is to all the kids her age. Her fav is the laughing cow cheese spread to which she never says no. I am planning to introduce avocado from today. Let’s see how it goes. Hope she likes it.

Cheese time













Every morning she goes for a morning walk in the garden, with her Baba and with me whenever he is not at home to talk with her favorite flowers and watch pigeons.












Pigeon watching









Talking to her fav flowers

Smooth sailin'...

Life is going on without any disruption, smooth and calm, nothing much to write. So I haven’t been writing all these days, but oh how time flies. I didn’t even realize that it’s already been almost two weeks. Sad news is that I damaged the camera, now have to repair or buy new one before I could capture any of her pics. Everythings is good except for the fact that MIA wakes up every hour in the nite just to be fed for few mins. It disturbs hers as well as my sleep. I have realized that I haven’t slept smoothly after her birth, not for the whole nite, or in the afternoon as I could hardly sleep in the noon. I guess these are the small sacrifices that we have to make to bring up our children. Not complaining though, at the very moment get frustrated, which passes in a minute or so of course.

Sleepless nites...

Oh ho, MIA is giving me hard time. Wakes up twice or thrice in the nite just to have half a minute of milk and gets up too early in the morning around 4. She is learnt this new habit, again, breast feeding while walking. Is that really possible? Well, I am doing it, what else can I do, she is just a baby. Whatever makes her comfortable? She is too stubborn as of now and you got to see her anger to believe. My my it’s scary. Hope it doesn’t grow with her. It is so difficult to put her to sleep, it is nearly impossible by by others but me and Nirmala and sometimes her Baba. I ain’t complaining, these time paases too quicly you know and suddenly she is all grown and we gonna miss all these things and never get back. We wanna enjoy each single moment and live it.

Mamaghar Time

Mama and Bhanji
Even if I have promised, I have not been a regular writer. Oh it’s already been a week. Sorry for that, but I ain’t gonna miss any important event of ur life MIA. Took her to Sanepa (her mamaghar) twice. Saturday was Chanda’s laa baji time (all her relatives comes to see her and the baby, food comes from her home so that she could go there). I had get - together in Chopstixs that same day (Richa, Krysma, Priti a nd Reetu). Went there after putting ger to sleep. As soon I reached there, bhai called. MIA had woken up and crying. The get together was over for mr there and then. We have cancelled the plan of me going to Bankok. Both of us think its not a good idea. This time however, she didn’t give me hard time in Sanepa and played with everybody. She is scared of Junge Ba’s Jungaa though. Her Baba has lot of patience, I should say. He keeps editing and organizing each and every picture of hers.

Mom Mom Where R U ...??

Smile to die for

You can’t even express how you feel when she looks at you all the time. The phase has come where MIA wants only her mom. She does play with others too, but when I am there, then it has to me only me. She loves to pull my hair and rub her tongue my face. Mummy says MIA is kissing me and showing her love. Mummy wants MIA to do the same to her and takes her cheek infront of MIA, but she just turns her face. We laugh whenever she does this. Today I added apple with her cerelac, and she loved it. It was Richa’s idea. Thank god for I met her yesterday and got so many tips. Whenever I am holding her, she hardly go to other people, but she just loves daddy and Nirmala. I think it
is quite difficult for her to get really close with her Baba, as he goes to work and sometimes doesn’t return for four days (whenever he flies to Pok), but I know she’s gonna be baba’s gal all the way.

She closes her eyes as soon as I sing ;

Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what u r
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
I sing few lullabies that are her favourites;
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown and jill came running after

Ba ba black sheep
Have u any wool
Yes sir yes sir three bags full
One for my master one for the dame
One for the little gal who lives down the lane

The one that I made up is:
Nunu nunu baba mero chori
Nunu gara raja, mero baba
Mamu ko chori, baba ko chori
Ye mero baba, nunu gara raja

Cerelac Time

Cerelac time with Baba

We started feeding MIA cerelac from yesterday. Seeing the bowl and spoon she got really excited. I wasn’t expecting such a reaction. From the past few days it has been really difficult to manage her by others especially while sleeping. She used to sleep in her Baba’s and Nirmalas’(nanny) arms at least. This afternoon I had to put her to sleep as she cried while Nirmala was putting her to sleep. She has even started drinking water from past few days.

5 mths old.......

It’s amazing how a 5 mths old could know who is holding her and putting her to sleep. MIA has started opening her eyes in between her sleep to see who is putting her to sleep. This is just one of the new habits that she has developed in the last few days. Her baba is amazed as she used to sleep in his arms easily. Being a mother I take pride that she wants to be with me all the time, but I get tired not of her love but the physical stamina that I have to put through as I hold her for a long time, sing to her, play with her, sooth her and feed her. I know these are the joys that I would never ever get from anywhere and I am not complaining yet. Once she looks at you with that heavenly smile u forget all the hardwork and pain.

MIA'S DIARY 2010 -

I am starting this diary exactly 5 mths late, after a birth of our daughter “MIA”. This is the name given to her by her Baba which means “My” in Italian. MIA also means “Rebellion”. Hope she rebels for the right cause.

It was 3 am in the morning when my water broke. We went to the hospital at 8:30 to have a normal delivery. After the checkup doctor said that it has to be an operation. I wasn’t afraid at all. All through the operation I was chanting “Gayatri Mantra”. Later I got to know from my aunt that I was supposed to chant “Maha Mritunjaya”.

MIA was born at 10:05 am on 17th Feb, 2010 Friday. She weighs 3.8kg. As soon as the surgeon took her out from my womb, I heard one of them saying. It’s a daughter born at 10:05. After few minutes, a doctor came to me on the operation table with my daughter all wrapped up in a blanket. I just got a seconds glimpse of her.
The day she was born 17th Feb, 2010 Wednesday

After four days in the hospital we were discharged. We came home all excited with the new member of the family. We got totally busy looking after her.
With MIA, our happiness doubled, it was a sheer joy to watch her grow every day. With her we laughed and cried. She loved to bath and never cried. I didn’t know how to bath her in the beginning. Sometimes it was her nanny and the other times, her Ramani Ma or Fufu Ma. Today I pride myself as I bath her on my own (of course with the help of her Baba and nanny). I don’t think she enjoyed oil massage as much as bathing

Bathing Time =Happy Time


Ramani Ma giving her oil massages

Whenever we had to take her for injections, I never held her as I was really scared to hear her crying. One of my worst time was when we took her for ear piercing, when she was 3 mths old, she cried her lungs out for few seconds after each hit. Wish I had pierced it when she was even younger with needles.

21st June was her Paasni (Rice Feeding Ceremony). It is also my birthday. We wanted Myra to be born on the same day as well, but God had other plans. She was born on the 22nd June. After lots of I confusion, the ceremony got over really well.
The confusion was regarding the birth of Myra, if she was born in the exact date that doctor gave, then bhai (MIA’s mama) would not have been able to attend the ceremony (jhuto laagcha)for 11 days. There was also a saying that if her tooth comes before the ceremony gets over then it would harm her Mama. Luckily her first tooth came after 6 days. We had a small get together of close family and friends on the 9th July in the Chopstixs restaurant in Teku.
Our little princess getting gifts in the party

MIA’s got many names; I call her “Jaaneman”, which means my life. Both I and her Baba love to call her choru and baba. Mummy and Daddy calls her “bhuntulu” and her Junge Ba calls her “Punti”. Her fufuma calls her “bhuntu” and her aruna di calls her”Bhunti”. Other then all these names she is got quite a few nicknames like; duluwa singh as she likes to go out, baiguni as she is with others till she wants and then sees only me, twale as she stares, ryale etc etc.

Baba took 5 days leave to be with his darling choru from 12th -16th July and luckily another two days got extended. We took her to many places during this week.


Sherpa mall

KFC


City Center, Food Court with Pooja Ma


Pizza Hut on Mom and Dad’s anni

I have promised myself to write everyday from now onwards. Let’s see how active and regular I could get. If I succeed, then it would be a gift from Baba and Mamu to their darling “Choru” as we lovingly call her.