Buddu and her naghuty activities...

Buddu is becoming very naughty now a days. I motivated from her endless efforts to sit or crawl or anything. We started giving her solids. First started with Single grain rice cereal and followed by banana, apple, pears. One new food for every 5 days. Banana is very heavy on her stomach for some reason so stopped giving it. Apple is ok, still poopoo is very hard and black in color. Daily I'm giving her gripe water for digestion. Introducer pears yesterday only, she liked it very much. She's ready to eat more :). Two weeks back, I frozen apples and pears separately
to give her daily. Let me tell you how I frozen the food. Bought organic apples and pears from wholefoods. Wasahed it thouroughly, peeled off the skin and pressure cooked for 5mins. Mashed it and mixed it in the blender so that
it becomes very smooth like running solid. I pour it in the ice trays of the refrigerator and frozen it. Daily I'm taking out one cube in the morning and put it in a bowl and cover it with hot water. By afternoon, it comes to room temperature and ready to eat. But I read some article about frozen stuff, it may lose some nutrients. So I decided to
change the preparation. I'll cook daily but have to figure out easy way.

After starting solids, I can clearly see she's losing interest in milk. Whenever me or mom-in-law try to give her bottle, she slowly grabs fingers (most of the time thumb) first and then moves the bottle back towards her feet. She keeps smiling while doing this. One can't miss her adorable smile. Before you realize what's happening, she
kicks the bottle like a football with her foot. The bottle fells on carpet and she starts smiling looking into your eyes. Can you get angry with such cutie pie!!!!!

Another funny thing with cereal bowl is when we start giving her cereal, we usually bring the bowl also close to her along with spoon. thapmani kottestundi cheti meeda.. cereal kinda!!!!

She's becoming so naughty. I'm glad buddu and her dad share some special moments. She enjoys dance with her father only. He's Ghantasala, SP Balu....(what not!) for her. Vallu iddaru aadukuntantu chudadaaniki naaku rendu kallu chaalavu.....

Bangaru Talli....baaga edagali... enno aasalu, marenno kalalu...

AnnaPrasanam...

Today is BIG day for NehaNityamma... My little princess reached her major milestone,
6th month. As it's 6th month 6th day, we planned for Annaprasanam. We decorated
her with all the jewellery and good pattulanga. My baby is awesome. She didn't
complaint for anything. She's looking at each and every piece of jewellery.
Buddu, I've to buy more for you. Attayya prepared bellam payasam in the morning.
After offering some to GOD, first, mamayya feed her very little of payasam with
ring followed by attayya (naanamma for buddu) and her dad and finally mom :)
She got blessings from all of us. My husband recorded the entire ceremony.

With all the heavy dress and jewellery, moreover with lack of sleep (as she woke up
at 4AM and didn't sleep well after that) she was crying. I removed everything and
kept her in uyyala and she slept as we are moving it to and fro.

Bye Bye Ammamma...Have a safe trip..

Days rolled by so fast. Mar 10th has already come. Mom has to leave to India. My mom is
happy for going to india and reuniting with dad but eually sad to leave Buddu. Buddu is
very attached to her now. After brother left, she has only ammamma. So day and night with
ammamma only. Mom couldn't control her tears while she was leaving to airport. The flight
ticket we purchased online was showing wrong dates by mistake because of which she has to stay in Hongkong for 2 days. So we requested the cathaypacific airlines to postpone her travel to next day which they did. Sending her off was not a happy moment. In-laws have come but I can see they are not at all happy. I can say mar 7th to 14th was the bad time for my husband so for me. I had to take leave from work. Things didn't go well at work also. Everything settled down by weekend. In-laws are very happy. For them, everything turned out to be green now!!! which is good for me also though don't know the entire story for all these happy and sad. I'm worried about Buddu. How she's sleeping and eating in the day time. In-laws having spent time with the other grand kids started comparing her to others which I don't like at all. I've to build confidence in her, for that I've to be very confident.
These days I'm practicing to be silent. I've my own plans of starting "something". This something, I've to figure out, a way to implement and make it success. I want to spend with my baby, want to be there for her all the time. I know how I missed my mom, doesn't want to repeat the same for my baby.

I've to first keep my baby happy and healthy.

Keeping this apart, buddu handled ammamma's departure so well. She's trying to adapt to her new grand parents. My little girl doesn't complain to anything. I keep worrying about her eating schedule so kept calling home from time to time to check whether little one has taken anything or not. Little one is amazing. Her smile, oo sound makes my day. :)

She's having anxiety whenever approching new members or places. So I planned to meet with new moms in the apartment.
Little one, Be happy :)....