So A is now 91/2 months. She is quite the
- Suspicious girl. Suspicious that the food we are eating is far tastier than what we are giving her, which is usually the case. So she is willing to open her mouth whenever we offer her anything we are eating. So she's already had cheese (her favourite), grapes, strawberries, biscuits, egg, a cockroach (she picked it up and put it in her mouth!) as well as clay/cotton/thermocol which is had on a daily basis. In the park, after she's crawled after the ball for some time, or walked around (with our help) trying to kick it her next favourite thing is to pluck all the grass and mud and put it in her mouth. Of course any snacks offered to S has to be shared with A also, and her favourite playtime is to pull the bottle from S mouth. She's absolutely fascinated with S bottle and the other day i walked into the toy room and A has her back to me, and when i called her name she looked around guiltily (i am kidding you not!) with S bottle in her mouth... (yes S still has milk from a bottle, she resisted too much to the change and i was not prepared for the long tantrums, maybe will wean her off the bottle when i stop working) A is also very suspicious that S is playing with all the good toys and reading all the interesting books, while we are trying to palm her off with the boring ones. So much so, that even if i give A the much more colourful book, she'll come over to where S and i are sitting and sit on top of the book I'm reading to S. Similarly with toys, playing with clay/lego/blocks/jigsaw puzzles is impossible with A around, so now we have started putting her on top of S cycle to keep her busy and keep the toys out of her reach
Introspective girl - she sometime has this long thinking look on her face (the hubby gets it often, and while i realised that he's really not thinking about much, am puzzled what A is thinking). She can be pretty quiet and play with her toys by herself for some time and if we get any guests/or are at anybody's house during these introspective times, they are convinced that she's quite the shaant kid
Aggressive girl - she knows what she wants and knows how to get it. She has the loudest wail I've ever heard and is capable of deploying it continuously. She hates being changed (why?), being rocked to sleep when she's not sleepy, when something is taken out of her mouth and generally if i am carrying S and not carrying her.
Mummy's girl - S was quite the daddy's girl when she was young, maybe because the hubby also used to get more time with her, and now she does not clearly have any preferences between the two of us, but A is clearly mummy's girl. When i get back home from office, she'll come crawling to me and pull at my kameez to pick her up. She'll wail if i go to S first or if i go to the other room maybe to get a glass of water without taking her along with me. She also says "amma" but that's a mixture of mamma and a generic term when she wants something/wants to be carried.
Troublesome kid at night - she is very difficult in the night and doesnt sleep for more than a couple of hours at a stretch. The typical night consists of her sleeping at 11, getting up at 1:30, sleeping again immediately, getting up at 3:30-4, then refusing to sleep for an hour/half hour, then again getting up at six, her milk then, again sleeping and getting up at 7:30. I cant take it beyond six and i wake up the maid then. But its been ages since i even got 4 hours of sleep at a stretch and wonder when A is going to sleep through the night. I clearly remember S was not difficult at all, we had attended my sis in law's wedding when she was 10 and 1/2 months and she slept through each night properly.
Solids girl - she hated her milk and gave me many sleepless nights and ulcers with her refusal to drink milk. But, (thank God and touch wood) she's much better with her solids and we dont need to spend too much effort and time trying to convince her to eat what is offered. S always hated solids, and still likes her milk- many times she actually comes and asks for milk again even if she's just had it.
Naughty girl - some friends who've seen her have said she's very calm, and while that is true in patches she is also pretty naughty. She loves to pull the DVDs off the shelves, she climbs on top of the bouncer to reach the higher shelves and pull out the DVDs from there. She loves to pull the books from the bookshelf (now we've emptied the last shelf and only kept magazines there so she doesn't hurt itself. She also loves to throw things behind the bed - she'll crawl over to the headstand and pull herself up and throw whatever she has in her hands over the bed. And she gives me a guilty look after that!!
A's now got two small teeth at the bottom and she crawls all over the place, and walks holding furniture. She's pretty good at climbing and sometimes I'll look up from my latop and find her on top of the sofa next to me.
S is growing up so fast. In my mind she's already a big kid, compared to A and sometime i forget that she's still a baby herself. But she has become so much bigger suddenly. She loves her school and tells me what she did each day, who her friends are, what she wants to take to school for her tiffin. After school she'll open her tiffin box and show me that its empty with a big smile on her face. I have been quite awful with her tiffin, earlier she never used to try much stuff and i also didnt have the imagination or the enthu to give her different stuff, so it was more or less cheeselings and bourbon biscuits everyday. But now she asks for grapes/corn/chappati/toasted cheese bread and I'm thrilled. This week I managed to give her different tiffin for everyday of the week and none of that involved snacks! Also helps that my work hours start only after dropping her at school so i am able to spend some 5-10 mins on preparing her tiffin. She plays a lot more in the park now- she can swing by herself, goes on the big slides, plays with the sand toys and tells what she wants to do. She surprises me sometimes by how observant she is- if we are reading a book and i read something in a different way she will ask why. The other day we had gone to the club and she pointed at some cupboards in a room and asked why they didnt have handles (!). Something i wouldnt even notice. She is also listening to whatever we say, sometimes the hubby and I would be having a conversation and she would pipe her with her take on something and we would suddenly realise that she's been following the entire conversation.
She loves me to read books to her and choses what book she wants me to read. She likes to do jigsaw puzzles (the 4,5,6 pieces one she does herself) and the bigger ones she does with me. She loves her lego and her clay also and going around on her cycle. I don't get enough time to do all the activities with her everyday, but i do try to take her to the park on all weekdays. She does craft with her hubby in the weekends (thank goodness i am pretty terrible at anything to do with craft/drawing/anything creative) and now that we have membership of the nearby club i try to take her swimming twice a week. We just signed up for the musical bonding today, hope she enjoys that!
S and A get along pretty ok as well when A is not trying to pull S hair, poke her eyes or generally whack her. S is pretty gentle with her and complains to us if A is hitting her (and knows not to hit her back). She lectures her quite a bit!!! And she also tries to play with her- if A is bouncing in the crib, S will get in and bounce with her, if A is crawling in the living room, S will also go crawling with her. She likes to feed her snacks as well (though i caught her trying to feed her grass in the park the other day) and shares her toys with her without a grumble. Love you dolls, hope you remain the best of friends forever.
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