Mama Mia and Sound engineer

Today is a red letter day. I saw that chikoo recognises his mother. Not only that he shows a distinct preference for her company. It is so fascinating that just on the day he completed 4 months, his bonding with his mother is complete!

He was lying on my lap and D crossed over to the other side of the room, his eyes followed her and he was actually calling out to her. Well, his tone was so different from any other sound he was making, that words were just useless. He made it very clear to me and D that he wants her around and prefers her company! How wonderful.

And Chik had reserved his fitting finale to a grand day. D was climbing the stairs to take him to the first floor and just turned a wee bit to see if his head is straight. She felt a wet something touch her cheek and yes she had got her first kiss!Full of saliva and a drooling babe to boot!

And he has a rare smile, usually reserved for D that starts in his eyes and travels all over his face and body upto his little toe, and he curls his body and lets out a shy smile. D is absolutely fascinated with that one.

Who says that babies cant talk? They keep talking all the time. The types of sounds they make, for what they need at that time, does not give any room for any ambiguity. Take tonight for example. D was  sitting next to him and having her dinner.She got up to wash her plate. I had just then come near him and he made such a pleading sound, which was so new and I had not heard from him till now. He is not able to raise his hands to ask to be lifted up. But his hands made a small movement and his tone left me in no doubt that he wanted me to lift him. I was fascinated and called out to D. She also came over and watched his body language and tone which were a set of new 'words' that he had picked up. When he saw that we were just hovering around and looking and smiling at him, but doing nothing about it, he let out a BIG yell. Nothing new there. It says I am annoyed with a capital A. I  picked  him up and he was immediately soothed and happy.

He now joins us in conversation. We tell him something and he makes some sounds and then we say something again and he waits for a pause and eggs us on with 'and then'. He will keep flashing toothless grins all the time. This has been going on for a few weeks now, so we are now quite sure that he is quite an integral part of the conversation. If you have any doubt, try leaving him out. He will aggressively muscle his way in, like a typical union leader that we are used to at work.

Smooth turn over

Chikoo has been trying to turn over for the last few weeks. As a fluke he does manage to turn over sometimes, but he does not know how to repeat it. He tries it only when he is generally at peace with the world and there are not any admirers hanging around, being charmed by him.

So it is that we watch with lots of amusement his sporadic attemps to turn over and lie on his tummy.. D tells me he tries it in his sleep as he does not want to waste any time even then! He rolls over sideways and takes a break and amuses himself by putting his entire fist in his mouth. Then he tries to to egg himself and gets his other hand squeezed underneath. He whimpers and screams alternatively so that one of us gently pulls his hand out .He immediately raises his head so high that we are afraid he will hit his face when he cannot hold his head. He is fascinated by the different sights that he is able to see in that pose, saliva drooling all over.

Today morning he had got up after a short nap and had three pillows all stacked around him. He made a smooth turnover and a smoother pulling away of his other hand and was looking at me casually. I just stood there so happy to see him make such a fine act. He did it once more and it looked so simple! It just goes to show a perfect performance looks so easy, but has lots and lots of effort and practice.

In the afternoon he turned over and made a few frantic efforts to move forward. The bedsheets were getting in the way but he made slight progress.

Today he completed four months. It is as though he is telling us that he is a big boy now and is actually mobile!

God bless.